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I was reading to the niecelings Friday, and I pulled down, for Evangeline, a few one-word books - ABC and Picture This, by the same author, Alison Jay.
There's either one word per page or, on some pages, a two page spread with just that one word.
And I went through the books mostly the way they're supposed to be read, but periodically I'd say "elephant" instead of "apple" or "train" or "rabbit" or "elephant". Elephant is a bit of a running joke with us, it's amazing the fun you can get out of singing songs and changing random words to elephant....
So she'd laugh and correct me. "No, na 'e-effan'! Gee-o-tax tain!" or whatever the object happened to be.
Then, when I was done, she sat down and declared that she was going to read it. And she did. She opened the first book, looked at it, and confidently started off "Appo. Ba-yoon. E-effan"
"No! Not an elephant, Evangeline! A cow!"
"Oh! COW! Foof (dog). E-effan. Foggy. Daff (giraffe). E-effan!"
"No! Not an elephant! A horsey!"
And so on.
She repeated the procedure with the other book, and then started over again.
That was fun, surprisingly enough. I'd gotten rid of most of the one-word books (gave them to a friend of mine, and then to some strangers at a playground, what she didn't want), but I may make a new exception and buy another one.
There's either one word per page or, on some pages, a two page spread with just that one word.
And I went through the books mostly the way they're supposed to be read, but periodically I'd say "elephant" instead of "apple" or "train" or "rabbit" or "elephant". Elephant is a bit of a running joke with us, it's amazing the fun you can get out of singing songs and changing random words to elephant....
So she'd laugh and correct me. "No, na 'e-effan'! Gee-o-tax tain!" or whatever the object happened to be.
Then, when I was done, she sat down and declared that she was going to read it. And she did. She opened the first book, looked at it, and confidently started off "Appo. Ba-yoon. E-effan"
"No! Not an elephant, Evangeline! A cow!"
"Oh! COW! Foof (dog). E-effan. Foggy. Daff (giraffe). E-effan!"
"No! Not an elephant! A horsey!"
And so on.
She repeated the procedure with the other book, and then started over again.
That was fun, surprisingly enough. I'd gotten rid of most of the one-word books (gave them to a friend of mine, and then to some strangers at a playground, what she didn't want), but I may make a new exception and buy another one.
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Date: 2008-01-20 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-20 04:40 pm (UTC)Sometimes, I use duck instead. But only rarely.
I use elephant as a transplant so often, I was actually surprised a few months ago when Evangeline saw a picture of an elephant and was able to correctly identify it! I hadn't realized she would attach the nonsense word to a real item so young!
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Date: 2008-01-20 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-20 04:40 pm (UTC)Sometimes, I use duck instead. But only rarely.
I use elephant as a transplant so often, I was actually surprised a few months ago when Evangeline saw a picture of an elephant and was able to correctly identify it! I hadn't realized she would attach the nonsense word to a real item so young!