Setup: Melanie (5) is reading an Arthur book. One of the characters is making prank phone calls.
Melanie (reading): Is your refrigerator working? You better go catch it. [laughter].
At this point in her reading development, she’s fully capable of sounding out words, but much prefers to use context clues and memory to guess what the words should be. Useful skills, to be sure, but she does need to hone her “actual reading” ability as well. In this case, I’m guessing is that she remembered the story having been read to her before. “Running” and “working” are functionally equivalent in the isolated sentence. After the second sentence, you laugh. Nice try, sneaky one, but I’m wise to your ways.
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