My Little Niece
This is my niece. She is almost six now. Since she’s going to enter elementary school soon, so my sisters and I (sometimes) are teaching her to learn the alphabet and reading. We had some difficulties in teaching her alphabet for the first time. But one of my sisters (In fact, she’s like her real teacher) was very patient and strict until now she is able to read. At first, she was introduced to books for kids. You know, the ones with lots of colorful pictures and big letters. But she has finished that level and now she’s starting to read a book.
The first book which my sister gave her is Totto-Chan. She usually finishes a single page in a day. We want to introduce her to books from the early age. Therefore, once she grows up, she won’t despise books and make reading books as her habit. We had to counter the attack of comic before it gets into her. Not that I detest comic, but some of the kids these days are having problem in reading novel or books without pictures once they are hooked with comic.
I hope my students can read my posting, so they’ll realize even a five-year old kid can read a novel. Why is it that hard for them to do so? It made me sad, really!
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