Kara’s Reading–End of 1st Grade

I have been so proud of how Kara has been learning to read this year.  To be honest, reading has been kind of a struggle for Kara because she is such a perfectionist.  At the beginning of this year, though, Kara was only reading one syllable words, mostly with short sounds, but could sound out words with long vowels.  She really didn’t know any of the “special sounds” (i.e. blends like sh, th, br, etc.).  Well, she has done amazingly well.

I made this video of Kara reading last October in Lesson 46.  She was already beginning to show improvement!

Yesterday, in Lesson 169, I made this video of Kara’s reading.  Notice the longer words that she can now read!  Her smoothness has also improved!

So does A Beka Academy’s phonics-based reading program work??? IT ABSOLUTELY WORKS!! 🙂 And, for those who think that phonics-based reading would be boring, Kara loves her books so much that she wants to keep them. She tells me that she wants to “read and read and read!”