Ve laughed and laughed

Ve laughed and laughed, and even down right giggled and giggled, when her and I, and when her and Mim were reading the "Miss Mary is Scary"  Weird and Weirder books. She laughed, do you know what that means? She understood the book, she was enjoying the book, she was interacting with the book, and most especially she wasn't just working so hard on decoding the words that she found the book just another long and tedious assignment she has to do for school. So we will continue onward with our nightly reading and hopefully she will move upward in her understanding and enjoyment of books.

Ve has picked up social English easily, but academic English as been difficult. So I decide that this year, when it seemed she was flat lining on her learning, I would provide reading interventions with her at home daily. She and I mostly, and sometime her and Mim read two chapters together, currently at her reading level which is a DRA of 34, which is the middle of 3rd grade...a year behind her grade in school. With our nightly interventions and reading sessions, I have already seen huge improvements,