OK Heres the deal. Caleb has always been good at memorizing things that he sees. I guess this could be good but not in this case I don't believe. He started first grade this year. Well he made a short story book at school and brought it home today. The teacher ask me to read have Caleb to read it to me. I went to point to the first word and he started saying the whole book. He didin't even look at the words. He was looking at the t.v. He also has longer books memorized by Dr. Suess like Green Eggs & Ham, The Foot book, and the Cat in the Hat. How am I going to teach him how to read more words if he memorizes them the first time its read to him? The weird thing is though he can't spell all of these words. He spells when its conveient to him I guess you can say. Words like spider-man, hulk, batman, his whole name, his sisters name, he knows how to spell all the words that rhyme and end in
at like Cat, hat , mat, rat, pat, bat, fat, mat, pat, and sat
ig like pig, wig, gig, big, dig, fig,
I think everyone pretty much know where I'm going with this post. Its just so hard for me to understand how he can do this. I mean when I was in first grade I couldn't memorize a story after the first time. I could tell you what the story was about which Caleb won't do unless he wants to. Does anyone else son or daughter do this.
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