Here's a nifty Ana-cdote.

[conuly]

Ana fell asleep on her last day of camp last week. (Yeah, she went to half-day camp for a week.) So I picked her up, and put her on my back, and hung around an hour until my ride showed up. The kids had gifties, and after I convinced Deniz that no, she did *not* get two of everything, half that stuff was clearly Ana's, Ana received, among other things, a book on butterflies. A guidebook about butterflies.

You should know that one of the best things you can do to encourage literacy in a young child is to read around them. Not to them (though that's great too), but simply in their presence. I take this advice to heart, along with the rule that you don't actually have to jump up every time the four year old wants a cup of water, and so the phrase "Just wait until I finish my chapter, honey" isn't unknown to the niecelings.

So today, Ana picked up her new butterfly book, and told her mom "Wait until I find my chapter. I have chapters now. Like Connie". She was apparently quite proud of herself for this :)

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether you've heard the term "chapter book" (it might be a British English thing), but I can imagine that the use of that term might come from such pride as Ana expressed.

(As in, being able to say that you're reading chapter books now.)

[conuly]

It's not a Brit thing, but we haven't used the phrase around Ana yet, mostly because she can't read chapter books. Or any books, for that matter, unless she's seriously holding out on us :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether you've heard the term "chapter book" (it might be a British English thing), but I can imagine that the use of that term might come from such pride as Ana expressed.

(As in, being able to say that you're reading chapter books now.)

[conuly]

It's not a Brit thing, but we haven't used the phrase around Ana yet, mostly because she can't read chapter books. Or any books, for that matter, unless she's seriously holding out on us :)