Suddenly, it seems that Jade "gets it." What's "it" you ask? She seems to have suddenly realized that the black squiggily shapes in books- print- actually represent sounds. And if you know what sound each letter symbolizes, you can stretch them all out, stringing them up, and making words! This weekend she read quite a few words while we were hanging out at Daddy's work. She needed help because she only *knows* a handful of the letters and their sounds. But she can read MAT, so I wrote CAT and told her the sound that "C" makes. Then it was on to hat, pat, bat, sat, etc, etc. Yesterday she flew through the S lesson in Phonics Pathways. Today we worked on M. And she read me Book 1 in the the first Bob Book Series. Then she read it to her Dad. She is thrilled, and I am thrilled for her too. She's getting to be such a big kid!