Remember how Sarah's teacher said she's a poor reader? Ok, we picked up Sarah's report card about 2 weeks ago. Met Nancy, Sarah's teacher. It was all candies and roses for Sarah - she got number 5 out of 19 children. That is way, way beyond my expectatation. The feedback from the teacher was that she's good in every ways just that her handwriting is so slanted the teacher doesn't know what else to do, and she reads her Ladybird books so softly the teacher couldn't hear her. We know how good she reads now as at home and she usually read at the top of her voice. But she's a shy girl, so we were not really complaining. But then we saw the reading chart and Sarah's name has no stars on it, not even Book 1A.
So, back home we coached Sarah to read - must read clearly and loudly. And the result? A few days later she came back with these big red stars drawn on her hand along with some cartoon stamps. Apparently she read Books 1A and 1B on one go and she's now on 2A! My, that was really fast. Yesterday she came back with more stars and cartoon stamps. She said she's now reading 2B.
And funny thing is, now she doesn't care less about the stars and whatnots on her hand. She doesn't even tell us she got those unless we notice them. She has this look that says - hey, I'm used to this already :).
So, back home we coached Sarah to read - must read clearly and loudly. And the result? A few days later she came back with these big red stars drawn on her hand along with some cartoon stamps. Apparently she read Books 1A and 1B on one go and she's now on 2A! My, that was really fast. Yesterday she came back with more stars and cartoon stamps. She said she's now reading 2B.
And funny thing is, now she doesn't care less about the stars and whatnots on her hand. She doesn't even tell us she got those unless we notice them. She has this look that says - hey, I'm used to this already :).
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