Eli

Eli, 3 years old, reads In the Shopping Cart.  He points and reads as he figures out this simple pattern book.

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Eli reads In our Classroom and Look at the Lizard.  He uses both strategies of self correcting and rereading while he reads two of his favorite books.

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Eli demonstrates reading his word cards.  Eli first read these words in his books.  Now he shows how he can also read them in isolation.

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Eli, 3 years old, works hard reading Big and Little.  Big and Little is a more complicated pattern book with some challenging vocabulary.

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Eli has read 1,000 books.  He reads three of his favorite books:  Look at Danny, Little Chimp, and Here Comes Little Chimp.

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Eli, almost 4 years old, has read 1,000 books.  He is reading his word cards.  These words have come from the books that he has already read.

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Eli, 5 years old, reads two of his favorite books, Nick's Glasses and The Toytown Race Car.  He has read 2, 120 books.