Atti can read you guys. I mean, I don’t know when exactly you can start counting, he obviously can’t read everything. But his sight skills are amazing and my teacher friend tells me he’s a “decoder.” Not being a teacher myself, that doesn’t mean anything, but she was impressed so I’m bragging about it. We downloaded a couple of sight word flashcard apps for Bear’s iPad and Atti begs us, seriously, BEGS us to let him play with it all the time. We can use flashcard time as a better bribe than dessert. Music and books are his greatest loves. It makes my heart sing.
Being a decoder means that Atti can look at the letters and sounds in a word and put them together to read what it says. It's something lots of children struggle with – particularly blending all the different sounds together so that is absolutely awesome