Back after the turn of the year when I visited the city that I used to live in, I visited with my one (half British) (half Sudanese) friend (the sister of the brother-sister pair), and I brought along a children's book as a gift for her two oldest kids like I sometimes do, when the local public library's sale pile has a cool-looking children's book that I think they would enjoy.
And, believe it or not, her six year-old daughter could read all of the book except for like three words ("color," "shape," and "birds").
(This was a very simple book with nice pictures and captions like "A house in the rain" and "A house at night," but still, impressive!)
And, when she was reading that cold for me and got to the words that she didn't know, I went and began telling her the first one, but then the dad jumped in nicely and reminded her that the rule was that she first had to try to sound out the new word as best she could, and then they would help her, and, with that trick, she got 2 of the 3 words (she was right with "color" and "shape," but she read "birds" as "buildings," somehow).
Anyways, for memory retention, after the book was over, I took her back to the pages with the words that she didn't know and asked her to read them again, and when she got to the new words and couldn't read them, again, rather than sounding them out, she looked over at the illustration page for hints, and you could see her looking and trying to remember what she had said at that page, and then she guessed.
Also a strategy!
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