“Buh, ahh, tuh”
“What’s that spell?”
“Bot”
“What letters make the word ‘bot’?”
“Beeee, ohhhhh, ppeeee”
“Those letters make ‘bop’.”
“Oh, oh, oh, beeeeee, ohhhhhh, tuhtuhtuhteeeeee.”
“Yep.”
Lily is generating/spelling words both tangibly (like with fridge letters and foam, etc..) and virtually (abstract). In the last week, she has begun to decide to read what is on the tv randomly, and every once in a while she delivers a string of letters and then wants me to figure out what they make/spell. About 80% of the time, the letters are either in order properly, or perhaps a little transposed, but they make a word. The other 20%, if spoken in sequence phonetically, they’re very close to an existing word.
She has a solid understanding of the concept of words, the letters that make them, their purpose (the letters and the words), how to recognize them and generate them, and she is reading sentences that contain any where from one to 10 words. She will figure out each word and build as she goes, recalling the words (and restating them) that she’s already decoded.
There are a few instances when she will read from right to left (this almost never happens in a printed book, but in singular words made on the fridge, etc., it can occur in up to 25-30% of her interaction). And when reading music, she doesn’t directionally discriminate.