Even I am enthralled by the whole “Your Baby Can Read” phenomenon- little tykes “reading” from index cards or doing the motions of the word in front of them while they’re still in diapers. While there are parents singing praise in the commercial of how their young (often under a year old) child is actually ...
When Aleka Titzer was nine months old, her father showed her simple words, such as “head”. “teeth” and “arms up”. Her father never said the word, only showed her the written word and she did each action. At eighteen months, Aleka then could say all of those words plus many more. How is this possible? ...
First and foremost, the easiest way to transition a child into reading is to teach them to love books. This naturally happens by reading to them from infancy or as wee babies. While it may seem, as babies, your little one is not attentive, the mere act of expressing the art of reading to the ...
As an experienced parent of 3 children, ages 20, 16 and 2, I am naturally cynical about any product that makes a claim as extravagant as teaching your baby to read. I taught preschool for more than 15 years and believed that children learn to read by being read to, and by learning phonics when ...
