I taught myself to read by filling in the gaps. As soon as I had “the cat sat on the mat” covered, I deemed myself sufficiently capable of reading chapter books. My sister and her friends were always reading chapter books and looking very grown up. So I grabbed her copy of the Enchanted Wood and started filling in the gaps. I got stuck on the word “bush”. No idea how to read the SH. Until! A few pages in there was a picture of the mushroom stools. They would pop out of the ground and form very useful fairy seats. And look at that! I could match the mushroom word with the picture and right there was a pattern. Mush and bush. But bush rhyming with mush doesn’t make any sense. But pronounced differently (with a U sound), it becomes bush! And that is how I figured out the SH sound. And how to read “bush”.
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I love how you always find a way to figure things out!
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Thanks, but nowadays most of the time I harrass my husband if I’m stuck on anything. Or my daughter lol! 🙂 this memory popped out of nowhere really, but the detail is so vivid and I was only six at the time.
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Such a smart girl!!! But I just remember that I figured out a lot of such things in a similar way when I was a kid. Of course today we take the short cut…. lol
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That’s a wonderful early memory!
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Thanks, it just popped into my mind! 🙂
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That was a great joy of youth, figuring out how toget from A to B to C all on your own. This is a great reading memory, Vonita. You were a smartie!
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Thanks Mark, though it all went downhill from there Lol! 🙂
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Ha! Somehow I doubt that, Vonita.
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Only when I started work 🙂 And still haven’t recovered.
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