The Reading thing...

It's been interesting...Nathan has shown interest in writing and wanting to know what words say for about 18mths or so. I had no expectations on when things would start to happen for him, nor much of an idea on how it would happen. So far I've just followed his lead with reading to him heaps (chapter books, picture books, non-fiction books, labels etc) and writing out words at his request. On Wednesday when we had his friend over, they found a sheet of paper in the recycling bin that had lists of words on it that Nathan had asked me to write down for him a few weeks back. She asked him what it said and I was amazed to hear him rattle off about 10 of the words. Most of them were family members, but it was neat to hear him do that. Then today we were reading a book with old-fashioned children's stories and he just pointed and read out the word "no" and "fox". It's not a book we've read often or lately - so I guess things are starting to click for him.