Can Your Baby Really Read? By : tipsforgood/guide-to-read/ The Difference Between a Child Who Can Read, and a Baby Who Can Read by Memorization Teaching small babies who are just a few months old, and cannot even speak yet has become a rather popular topic among parents. Think about that, your baby who cant even speak yet reading. Sounds wonderful. But if you dig deeper and analyze what is really happening, and youll quickly discover that these babies are in fact NOT reading, but merely memorizing shapes through repeated exposure. No phonetic reading skill or knowledge of decoding has been gained, and Id like to say, no, that baby cant read... Sadly, weve gone through this ourselves with our first child. I began researching the topic of teaching children to read many years ago, even long before our first child was born. Unfortunately for me, I saw an infomercial showing small babies reading, or appearing to read. Without putting much of a second thought into this whole thing, I picked up the phone and made a purchase. When we received the package, we immediately started it with our first born. After a little while, she appeared to be able to read some of the most simple, and basic words. I thought wow, this is great. My baby can read. Boy was I wrong to the infinite degree. Not long after, when I paid more attention to her supposed new reading ability, and seriously analyzed the method being used to teach reading, it became pretty obvious that our first born baby could NOT read. By : tipsforgood/guide-to-read/ She was not reading by any stretched definition of reading. No, she simply memorized the SHAPES of a few words, and associated certain meaning to the picture she had memorized. It quickly became apparent that our false hope of teaching our baby to read was just that, a false hope. We showed our daughter some very simple 2 and 3 letter words she had not seen before, tried to teach her to read those words, and she had no idea how to read. Why? Simply because she had not had enough exposure to those new words yet to memorize them! The process of memorization was not the way I was going to teach our children to read. Heck, were learning english here, not an ideographic language like Chinese where you absolutely have to memorize the characters. I had been doing a lot of research on the topic of teaching children reading, and had a very good understanding of the process of developing reading abilities. I wanted to be able to teach our child to read by phonics and phonemic awareness, not the whole language method. There was no way we wanted our baby to memorize words and pretend to know how to read. So we stopped that program a short while after ordering it from the infomercial. I decided to take matters into my own hands. We taught our 1st child to read at 2 years 11 months old, and also taught our 2nd child to read at 2 years 9 months old. By reading, we mean real phonetic reading. No silly memorization of word shapes. Heres a short video clip showing our 2 year old toddlers reading progress and a guide to teach your child to read today. Click for more info tipsforgood/guide-to-read/
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