Oops

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word read means:

look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed

This morning, Rachel and I were reading a book that we've only read a couple of times.  It hasn't made our regular stack of morning reading books.  This morning, she saw it and said, "Let's read that."


No problem.  I grabbed it and I started reading it to her.  Several pages into the book, I asked her at random to tell me what this word was:  Oops.


I seriously expected her to go, "I not know that."  (It is her standard response to any question she doesn't know the answer to.  David and I have both taken up saying it.)


Instead, she pondered a couple of seconds and then said, "Oops."  I blinked and then managed to say, "Yes, that's right."  She then followed up with, "You know, like in that other book."


I knew exactly the book she was talking about.  It was one of her baby books, Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton.  


So today, Rachel officially read on her own.  Her teachers at playschool told me last week that they thought she would be reading by summer.  They were right.