B-A-T Spells Bat

So the other day, we noticed that John was doing pretty well at sounding out letters. Curious as to how much he could do, we wrote a simple word for him and asked him to try to read it. He sounded out the letters (buh-aaa-t) and then put them together (buhaaat) and announced what the word was (it says bat!). We were amazed! So we tried it out with several other small words, and he did great! There is still plenty for him to learn, but he can officially be classified as a beginning reader. What a nice surprise!