As we were riding from place to place today, Elena kept spelling words in the backseat: Mommy, Elena, Daddy, Nathan, zoo, zebra. Later, she read several words to me from new books I'd bought her.
"How did you learn to spell and read?" I asked her.
"I taught myself," she said. "Easy."
Her mother confirmed that fact. All she needed to know, she said, were the sounds of the letters. Putting them together into words came easy after that.
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