I’m pleased to report that after a brief plateau, Jonah’s reading skills are burgeoning beyond our best expectations. It’s amazing to see him power through his reading each week, mentally correlating (ever more quickly) the occasional unfamiliar printed word with its familiar spoken counterpart.
However, he still occasionally mixes up his lower-case b’s and d’s, and who can blame him? So to help him, I devised this little mnemonic.
I’m all set with a mnemonic for lower-case q’s and p’s if he should need it, though it doesn’t seem like he does:
Q and U are friends, so the stem on the q wants to be close to the u: qu. But P and U? Pee-yoo!