Living 2008

The Rs joined me in bed this morning and Ms R wanted me to read ‘The Snowman’ by Raymond Briggs, as it doesn’t have any words in it I suggested she ‘read’ it to me from the pictures, which she did. After she finished I thanked her and said it was nice to be read to instead of always being the reader so she said she’d read me another book, she came back a moment later with Peter and Jane 2a and read it to me fluently even putting on a cross voice when Pat the Dog was trying to get the fish. I was really surprised and other than asking after a couple of words she new them all. She was reading it fast enough that often the sentence would unravel without her realising she’d read a new word, then at the end of the page she’d go back and ask if that new word said what she thought it did.