Chipku movement, via books
Ira has recently begun reading. Till a few months back, when she claimed to read a book, she was telling the story from memory with her own additions and deletions. But mind you, she would seriously turn the pages and even know which part of the story is in which page.
We began reading to her when she was a few months old. P would read books and even newspapers animatedly and she would listen. Sometimes there was a chuckle and sometimes pure wonder in those little eyes. Our adult selves hoped that our little one would take to books and love reading some day.
Today, she sits off at bookstores and tries to read, reads on our long drives and even hides books below her pillow as she thinks she will dream of them. Yes, little human beings do the cutest things.
Now that we have begun on this reading journey, she practises her sight words and makes sentences out of them. One such evening, when we had also made a paper rocket, all her sentences had the word rocket. "I have a rocket", "This rocket goes far", "Look at my rocket"!
She has also begun taking a keen interest to know what are we reading. Am currently reading Americanah and she asked me what is the book about. I said it is about a young girl and her story. She said you mean she will travel,meet people, have adventures, learn things and there are some bad people but she wins. Ofcourse the bad people and winning theme comes from her fascination for superheroes and a narrative of the 'sheroes journey'.
I then asked her what was she reading. She said she is reading a lot of books at her school library.
The Fireman book,a book where a girl is telling her Ajji a story that never ends and also fruit and vegetable book, magic show book.
At home, we keep rotating the books on her shelf, adding a few new books every other month. She does have some favorites at any point of time. She wants lot of books and her biggest thrill is to turn a book to the back cover, check if there are pictures of other titles in the same series and tell us, she wants all of them.
This week, when I came back from one of my work travels and she saw me the next morning. She had one ask. I had to read her lots of stories at breakfast time. I read three books, one of which had about 5 stories. All in a span of 45 minutes :) This was her way to do her chipku movement. And honestly, this form of chipku movement makes us happy.
To more reading,more story telling and making more stories.... The Ira way.
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