{"id":8278,"date":"2013-07-10T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2013-07-20T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T21:52:14","slug":"bjarki-figures-out-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bjarki-figures-out-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Bjarki Figures Out Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just to commemorate that Bjarki &#8216;read&#8217; for the first time today. \u00a0And by &#8216;reading&#8217; I mean that he sounded out words and figured out what the words were. \u00a0Now he just needs to learn <em>what all the letters say<\/em>, and he&#8217;s good to go! \u00a0(He currently knows quite a few upper case letters, and about six of the lower case ones.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8279\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8279\" alt=\"Bjarki with one of the 'starter' books his grandma lent him.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7331.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7331.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_7331-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjarki with one of the &#8216;starter&#8217; books his grandma lent him.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Compared to Anna, Bjarki&#8217;s always shown a remarkably low interest in letters. \u00a0I remember Anna going through 2-3 &#8216;high-interest phases&#8217; in letters from about 3 or 4 years old so she knew most of them by five years old. \u00a0The &#8216;reading&#8217; part was too involved for her though until she entered kindergarten at 5 and a half where she really got down to business and learnt to read.<\/p>\n<p>Bjarki has really only now shown any interest at all in reading on his own, and it&#8217;s interesting to me that he&#8217;s gotten the mechanics down before he&#8217;s learnt all the letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is just to commemorate that Bjarki &#8216;read&#8217; for the first time today. \u00a0And by &#8216;reading&#8217; I mean that he sounded out words and figured out what the words were. \u00a0Now he just needs to learn what all the letters say, and he&#8217;s good to go! \u00a0(He currently knows quite a few upper case<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bjarki-figures-out-reading\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}