1:Kate:
How did you get the, the words they said on this tape?
2:Mother: Well, it's with this machine that records words. I don't know how it works on the inside but when you talk into the microphone it copies your words.
3:Kate: This is the microphone?
4:Mother: No
5:Kate: Where is it?6:Mother: Right there.
7:Kate: ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. (sings)8:Mother: You're too close to it.
9:Kate: ohhhhhhhhhh. (sings)10:Mother: You're still too close to it.
11:Kate: You don't even have to lean into it? Oh yea yea lalelaaaaaaaa. (sings)12:Mother: I want to ask you something.
13:Kate: What?14:Mother: Maybe you know.
15:Kate: What is it?16:Mother: Remember when we used to go to the supermarket and you didn't know how to read?
17:Kate: Oh yea.18:Mother: Do you remember?
19:Kate: Ah Huh.
20:Mother: How did you know the different things I was buying?
21:Kate: Like Coca Cola?22:Mother: Yea. How did you know I was buying Pepsi instead of Coca Cola?
23:Kate: Ahhh...(giggles) I don't know. I couldn't read, like I couldn't read the thing, then how could I know I, it Pepsi? But I could know? 24:Mother: How did you know?
25:Kate: Ahumm.
I guess the colors and you say, and
you give William "You want some Pepsi? You want some Pepsi?"
26:Mother: Ahhuh.
27:Kate: And when you said and when you, I went "Eh, pe." reached over for that. (child leans and reaches as if in a shopping cart) I think when you said "You want Pepsi?" and I said "yes". I think that's when you, like, how I knew but didn't read it myself.
28:Mother: You
didn't read it yourself?
29:Kate:
Ut uh. (no)
30:Mother: How come, how about when we got to, like the cookie aisle? How did
you know which cookies you wanted?
31:Kate: Like chocolate
chip?
32:Mother:
Ahhum.
33:Kate: You know sometimes when you buy the chocolate chip cookies, when you buy them I think, uhmmm, I just knew, cause, ahhh, when you use to buy them without me saying, when you said, "Cookies? Do we need cookies or not?"
34:Mother: Ahhum.
35:Kate:
Think that's how I knew.
36:Mother: Yea, but how did, if I,... all I would say is "Do we need cookies?" and then you would pick cookies out. But how did you know which ones to pick?
37:Kate: Because I knew, I saw the chocolate chips on the bag and I know that they were chocolate chips.
38:Mother: Oh. Uhmm. Well, how about when we bought meat? How did you know what was chicken, or what was steak, or what was ham or what was good or what was yucky?
39:Kate: I don't
know.
40:Mother:
Oh.
41:Kate:
I forget that one.
42:Mother: Can
you read now?
43:Kate:
Yea.
44:Mother: Yea?...So when we go to buy chocolate chip cookies what do you look at?
45:Kate: The word!
46:Mother: Really!? How do you spell
chocolate?
47:Kate: Cha Cha Ga Ga Jayyyyyyy.
48:Mother: Ahhum.
49:Kate: Eeeeeee.
50:Mother: Ahhum
51:Kate: L.
52:Mother: Ahhum.
53:Kate: E. (child sounds out word using letters jele.)
54:Mother: Oh. How do you spell chip?
55:Kate: Cha Cha Ga Cha Cha Ga Geeeeee.
56:Mother: Ahhum.
57:Kate: Ohhhhhh. Peeeeee. Veeeee. Ce.! (child sounds out word using letters
gopvc.)
58:Mother: Hmmmmm. And how do you spell cookies? (pause) Ca.
59:Kate: Kaaaaaa.
60:Mother: Ahhum.
61:Kate: Ohhhh.
62:Mother: Ahhum.
63:Kate: Teee.
64:Mother: Ahhum.
65:Kate: Teee. Ohhhh.
66:Mother: Ahhum.
67:Kate: Y.
68:Mother: Ahhum.
69:Kate: Ze.
70:Mother: Ze?
71:Kate: Yea. (child sounds out word using
letters
kottoyz.)
72:Mother:
Cookiez. Great! Ho! I guess you do know
how to read? I mean if you can spell it you must know
how to read it?
73:Kate: Ahhuh.
74:Mother:
Right? Right?
75:Kate:
Ahhuh.
76:Mother: So, if I gave you a grocery list, could you go to the supermarket for me now?
77:Kate: Oh I can't
drive.