When parents consider teaching their children to read, they usually make this one huge mistake. If parents can avoid this one mistake, there children will be able to read much faster and easier. It requires little time to teach your child to read, if you follow this advice.
First of all, when you set out to teach a child to read, the earlier you start, the better. By this, I don't mean starting at 5 years old instead of 6 years old. What I am saying is that research has proven that the younger you teach a child to read, the easier they learn to read, the more efficiently they learn to read, and they intuit the rules of language on their own.
This means that parents don't need to teach reading by a set of rules. They don't have to start with the ABC's and then learn the sounds of the letters. They don't need to teach long and short vowels and consonant digraphs. This means that parents can jump right in and just teach words.
While this is not the best way to teach a 5 or 6 year old how to read, this is an excellent way to teach young children and babies how to read. They are able to learn the patterns of the language and the rules of the language by being exposed to it. All that parents need to do to teach babies how to read is to read them words that are large enough for them to see without straining.
This is quite a revelation! This means that parents can teach their babies to read effortlessly in their first years of life. So what age is the best age to begin teaching a baby to read in this manner? The answer is around 3 or 4 months of age. While you think your baby is not capable of doing much, you can be teaching your baby how to read!
Babies under 6 months are pretty stationary, not moving about a whole lot. This is a perfect time to kick off a reading program for your baby. You can begin showing words to your baby and teaching them to read. By the timer thy are 1 year old, they will know hundreds or thousands of words, and they will have learned many of the phonetic patterns, allowing them to read words they have never been exposed to.
When children are taught to read as babies, they are given a strong start in life and avoid struggling in school. After all, children that struggle to read struggle with school, since school involves good reading skills to succeed.
The biggest mistake parents can make when teaching their children to read, is too wait too long to start. Babies can learn to read, why not start today, when it is effortless for them to learn to read?
Krista Guerrero is the founder of Intellectual Baby, LLC, a Florida based company that produces and distributes educational products for babies. The product line includes, DVD's, flash cards, toys, books, and more. Its founder, Krista Guerrero, taught her son to read as an infant. Having taught reading for many years, she discovered that babies are capable of learning to read easier and faster than school-aged children. Her proven techniques have been incorporated into the "Monki See Monki Doo" system. To get your free report "How to Have a Smarter Baby", visit http://www.intellbaby.com/babies-can-read.html
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