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VIDBE - Q Volume 62 Issue 4
Through previous tutoring, Alice was exposed to the book It Looked Like S pilt Milk
and could recite it by memory. My impression was that previous tutors did not know what
to do with Alice and didn't understand what she could learn, so they read this book every
session. Alice really liked the book, but I could tell she wasn't re ally reading, and she
would incorrectly match the animals with the visuals; she thought everything was an owl.
I noticed when Alice was reading that story that she would quickly run her fingers
underneath the words, instead of pointing to each word as she read them aloud. To work
on this, I modified a book from the Reading A - Z website (https://www.readinga - z.com/) ,
called The Funny Cat . I selected this book because it was composed mostly of consonant -
vowel - consonant words. In her adapted book, I simplifie d the title to The Fun Cat , and I
placed big black dots of puffy paint under each word to encourage her to point and read
(see figure 4). After placing the black dots under each word, I noticed that the strategy
was successful and Alice touched each word a s she read them or as we read them
together.
Figure 4. The Fun Cat book, enlarged and placed on yellow paper with back puffy dots.
