transposable element

jan started writing comics early this year. he would draw action figures, and then write the text right beside them. the script is entirely his, but because he still didn’t know how to spell, he would ask us how every other word is written. quite exasperating actually. for him and for us. he was creating something very similar to comics even if he never had comics before.

from single pages, he moved on to stapling several pieces of paper, and writing rudimentary books. they contained more drawings than text, probably because he couldn’t adequately express his thoughts using words.

slowly, over the course of the last few months, he learned to read, and spell words phonetically. his spelling skills still has a long way to go, but he’s not letting that limit his creativity. last weekend, on a lazy afternoon when the rest of the household was napping and he was probably bored to his wit’s end because he wasn’t allowed to turn on the tv, he came up with this:

do you get the story? i know the spelling mistakes are getting in the way, so here’s an edited version of the text:

once in the jungle, there was a nice elephant and a nice frog and a bad fly. the fly quickly flew on the frog’s nose.

but the frog just flicked his tongue and swallowed the fly. the end.

i’m sure you didn’t get the word quickly, haha! these are jan’s work — he came up with the ideas himself, the story line, the script. no coaxing, no pushing, no prodding. maybe i should get him blogging soon.

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