Amelie is very fond of this book and today wanted to be recorded reading this, her second story. This is a great one for early language learners focussing on clothes and there are quite a few tricky sounds to exploit too.

What I find particularly interesting is that even at age 6, after only being taught how to read and recognise the link between sound and spelling quite recently (compared to most of the secondary age pupils I taught), Amelie still sometimes struggles to remember that 'an' is pronounced with a nasal sound unlike in English.  What amazes me further is that she is already able to self correct...and actually gets quite cross with herself when she pronounces it wrong!!!  See how she shakes the book in frustration.

It is also interesting to note that Amelie is so used to NOT pronouncing final silent consonants when she reads them that she says 'mon t-shir(t)' dropping the final 't' - this is quite advanced for a 6 year old, I feel.

Please leave her a friendly, encouraging comment below and who knows you may see more stories here soon.

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Suzi