Learning to read when the book you want to read is about pirates...pirates who speak piratese.
While practicing reading with a first year elementary students today I had to pronouce and explain the following words:
-Aye!-Lubber
-doth
-thy
And a mix of more that I can't remember. Then we got to the part that stumped her cold. She sounded it out, hesitated, looked at it again and looked up at me.
"Um..."
"Yep, that's what it says.It's in the book. Go ahead."
"Shut up," she read again, hurriedly skipping away from the bad words and racing onward. Oh the perils of reading, the world opens!
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