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Commentary: My Daughter Learns to Read.

Not too many weeks ago, Carrie, my daughter, told me, "Daddy, you know what? I'm learning some words at school." Then just a few days ago she picked up a book that had been around the house for some time. We sat down, Carrie and I, together in a chair and she read. I asked her if the words in the book were the same as the words she was learning at school. "Not all of them," she said. Carrie is five years old. She will be six soon. Carrie is the youngest student in her first grade class. In fact, had she been a day younger she would have had to wait another year to begin first grade. As Carrie started school this naturally worried her mother and me. Carrie loves to climb trees, sing in the bathtub, and roller-skate. She doesn't like lima beans and she sometimes finds her parents frustrating. Carrie has a brother, Chad, who is three years old. Chad wants to do everything Carrie does. She is an important individual in his life. Both Carrie's mother and I have worked hard not to teach the skills of reading to Carrie. We wanted her to learn these at school. What we did work hard at was making her as ready as we could for the reading process. How did Carrie come to read? I think I know. There is no one simple explanation. There are a variety of reasons and they all blend and work together. First, she has a mind and she doesn't hesitate to use it. She feels she is an important person with important things to say. Carrie feels good about herself. Carrie brings language to the printed page. This language reflects a broad range of experiences. She sees her language as not significantly different from the printed language she reads. She has also heard the "language of literature." From Goodnight Moon by Margaret, Wise Brown to Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, she had been read to since she could sit in a lap. Very early in her language development she did not hesitate to use syntactic and semantic knowledge when listening to a story. In fact, it was impossible to keep her from supplying predictable words and phrases when she was being read to. She knows the language of literature and she uses this knowledge as a valuable tool in the reading process. Carrie comes from a family of readers. Books play a very important role in the home. This has helped her personalize the reason for reading. She knows that books have real and specific things to say to her. When Carrie was younger she sucked her thumb. A book entitled Danny and His Thumb, by Kathryn F. Ernst, helped her stop. Carrie was a little worried about her first day at preschool. Will I Have a Friend? by Miriam Cohen assisted her in being less worried. When we moved to a new home she felt that there were boogies and beasts under her bed and in her closet. There's a Nightmare in My Closet by