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Teach your baby to read |
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by peace613  (January 2009) (rank 500+) |
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Yes you can teach a baby to read. Most importantly you can teach anyone to read. Age makes no difference. For that matter brain development doesn't matter.
Glen Doman wrote several books on teaching your baby. They started out trying to find a way to teach brain
damaged children. It worked so well that many, brain damaged, children were learning above normal for thier age. Amazing!!
To make it even more interesting you can teach any fact that you want. All you do is use flash cards.
Yes, it's as simple as that, flashcards. There are some key steps that are important however.
1. The size of the writing. About 3 inches tall. Babies do not see well.
2. The color. Babies are attracted to red. Start out with red writing
3. Time: Flash the cards quickly in small amounts. 5 Cards at a time. Just reading the word and showing it to the baby and then move on.
4. Smile Always introduce the cards with a big smile. Make this a fun time.
6. Tone of voice Sound excited. I found that when I was tired I'd smile and use a dull voice. He looked away and was not interested.
We taught the words 1st then taught the 70 phongrams. I put the 2 together knowing that sight words will only get you so far. Sounding out words is soooo important.
I hope this is useful. Here is a link to one of Glen Domans sites.
