Raising Demons (2015)
“My husband and I, sitting in the kind of companionable stupor that sets in when all children are in bed and presumably asleep, were startled at hearing a sudden astonished “Oh!” from Sally’s room. As we half rose, looking at one another, her voice lifted in the greatest, most jubilant shout I have ever heard: “I can READ! I can READ!”
It turned out she could, too. After we had calmed the other children (“Sally had a bad dream”) and put them back to bed with another piece of candy each, Sall...y came down and sat in the living room in her red pajamas and read to her father and me the first chapter of Ozma of Oz, the book I had been reading her before she went, as I thought, to bed. She explained that every night after I had turned out the light and gone downstairs, she had been going over and over the book I had read her, trying to apply the reading knowledge she picked up in kindergarten, and tonight, without effort, the letters on the page had fallen together and become readable; she had gone along for a page or more before she realized that she was reading the words.MoreLess
It turned out she could, too. After we had calmed the other children (“Sally had a bad dream”) and put them back to bed with another piece of candy each, Sall...y came down and sat in the living room in her red pajamas and read to her father and me the first chapter of Ozma of Oz, the book I had been reading her before she went, as I thought, to bed. She explained that every night after I had turned out the light and gone downstairs, she had been going over and over the book I had read her, trying to apply the reading knowledge she picked up in kindergarten, and tonight, without effort, the letters on the page had fallen together and become readable; she had gone along for a page or more before she realized that she was reading the words.MoreLess
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