Phonics

[cheerymom]

 starfall n readingbears are best !  , below once are good if you are looking for something varying :

http://www.time4learning.com/scope-sequence/preschool.shtml
http://jollylearning.co.uk/

thanks ! 
happylearning,
cheerymom

[ELeducation]

I wanted to give you all an update on our progress! My daughter at 13 months after a month of watching the preschool prep letter sounds and meet the sight words disc 1 a few times a week, she knows and can verbalize 15 of the letter sounds (upper and lower case) and 9 of the sight words on disc 1!! Of course, we have been reinforcing by playing with bath letters, leapfrog phonics toy, and writing letters for her on the magna doodle, but I am in complete shock. I suspect she knows more because she tries to say them, but the sounds/words aren't as clear.
She points at letters in random places and says their sounds.
So exciting!

[ELeducation]

Just in case anyone is following this thread, I wanted to share more exciting updates! Yesterday, we moved on to Meet the Sight Words 2 (just the first two mini lessons) because I could tell she was bored with disc 1. Today I put on disc 2 again because she was so enthusiastic about it yesterday, and she read 3 of the words before they were spoken: my, they, & but. You all were right about how quickly they can absorb this information, and this is only what she's choosing to share!  From now on I will only show disc 1 occassionally as a refresher.
I forgot to mention in my last post that we also do Starfall.com sometimes, and we started meet the letters sometime last month as well.

[ELeducation]

Now that baby girl (14 months) knows most of her letter sounds, should I go ahead and start reading bear or should I wait for her speaking skills to advance? Right now she verbalizes all letter sounds except e, g, j, and u. She only says about 15 actual words regularly in our everyday activities, not including animal sounds, at this point, but she repeats random words that I say when I'm talking to her or someone else and she'll read the sight words from the first disc of the meet the sight words when she feels like it and some from the second disc. Is she ready for reading bear or should I keep doing Starfall and meet the phonics letter sounds some more before starting? Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance

[CVMomma]

Wow! She is doing great!    I haven't heard of anyone starting Reading Bear at 14 months, anyway not on a regular, consistent basis. But I don't see why it would hurt anything. Even if she can't verbalized what she knows, she could still learn the lessons. Try it for a week or so, and if she likes it, keep going! Keep us posted! I love reading your updates, by the way!  Your little one is only a couple months older than my little one. I am very impressed by her progress! Keep it up!

[ELeducation]

Thanks for the encouragement CVMomma! It's nice to know someone is reading the updates We are having a lot of fun with letters and words right now. Its great to hear from someone with a LO close to the same age as mine. I will give reading bear a try with her this week to see if she takes to it. If not I'll try again in a couple of weeks. I'll give more updates as she makes more progress. Also, I recently found a short leapfrog video on YouTube with a letter sounds song that she loves as well.

[Evelyn2108]

Please keep up the updates!  My boy is seven months and we started ybcl not too long ago.  I have no feedback from him at this point, so stories like yours keep me motivated.  I was looking at the leapfrog letter phonics just the other day - putting them on the Xmas wish list!

[ELeducation]

Hi Evelyn2108! Definitely stick with YBCR I started showing it to my daughter when she was 9(?) months old, I think. I only showed her the starter DVD for less than a month, and she was following along doing the actions very quickly. I stopped showing it to her because I wanted to focus on Spanish, but I reintroduced it not too long ago. She's moving through the discs quicker at this age so we are actually getting ready to start disc 3 soon. She knows the actions and signs (thanks to us signing with her at home and of course Signing Time/Baby Signing Time) to so many of the words. It's hard to gauge how many words she's actually reading from the YBCR DVDs so far. I do also reinforce at other times during the day when we have time by writing words on her magna doodle. We don't use physical flash cards too much right now because she's teething and wanting to put hem in her mouth.
The leapfrog phonics toy is wonderful!

[Evelyn2108]

Wow, that is so great that she is following along with the actions. My little guy stares intently at the screen, but just chews on his hand whole time.  that's just his style though, he's like that in music class as well, just stares at the teacher playing guitar, stated at the other babies.

I've heard from some parents that their kids learned to read mostly just from the signing time dvds. Do yours have the printed word shown along with the sign?

I've been signing with my boy for a few months now, but I bought a CD with some songs that I use.  Now I've heard so many great things about those dvds, I'm thinking of adding them as well. 

Congrats again on all the progress!

[ELeducation]

He's taking everything in! That's wonderful! Trust that he is learning It's great that you're teaching him sign language too!

Yes; the printed word is shown while Rachel signs the word on the DVDs. My daughter signed several words before she turned 1, but she had a signing vocabulary explosion after her first birthday. I would learn a bunch of signs at night and teach them to her the next day by incorporating them in our play and playing a signing time DVD that covered some of those words. She just turned 15 months, and she signs around 100 words now, including feelings, animals, action words, etc. I highly recommend both Baby Signing Time and Signing Time. I can't recommend them enough!

Also, I sign as many words as I can while watching YBCR and Kidstart Spanish with her.

[ELeducation]

Update! This one is long since it's been a few months since I last updated!!
My baby girl is now 18 months. She learned the rest of the letter sounds and letters by name at 14-15 months, and the rest of the preschool prep sight words around the same time and right after from the DVDs by watching them just a few times. I realized this because she suddenly decided that she wanted to play with the flashcards, and she read each of the words out loud while signing the ones she knew the signs for like "you, I, play, up, word..." And now I keep them out...when she passes them, she picks up a couple, reads them, and continues with whatever she was doing.

Since then I have been writing words on her magna doodle of things she's interested in such as bee, water, etc., and she has been retaining the info. She remembers even two weeks later after showing her only a few times.

Up until a few weeks ago, she wouldn't read any of the words she knows when found in a sentence. She would only read them while alone whether it be on a flashcard, on the computer in different fonts, on the magna doodle, or handwritten on paper. She would always concentrate on the letters and say them by name or make the letter sound. Then suddenly, she was looking at a box that said "THIS SIDE UP", and she read up! I was so excited that I took out some of the preschool prep easy readers. Keep in mind that she had never read a word with upper case letters until then. She looked at the book called "We Play", and I pointed at we and then play and she read the title! She's still not keen on reading words in sentences, which is totally fine. She will read them when she's ready. I know she can do it now though!

She plays the apps called Endless Alphabet and Endless Reader. She loooves these apps! She played them every time we got out the iPad up until recently, and she is able to do them with ease. It's so much fun watching her absorb all of this information. I love that Endless Alphabet defines the word and uses it in a sentence. I think this is great for her vocabulary.
I need to be more consistent with reading bear, as she really enjoys repeating the words, and she would learn so much from it. It's such a great program!

As for math, she's known her numbers up to 10 for several months but she has started counting now. She will start counting from whatever number I call out. So if I say 3, she'll say the next number all the way up to 10. She counts as she goes up/down steps, she counts cereal, toys, Etc. She now says some of the teen numbers as well. I'm not 100% sure that she understands one to one correspondence yet. I'm not pushing her at all, just observing and starting to do more activities that will encourage that understanding. I'm sure she'll show me soon

She also found a little basket I had with coins, so I washed them and now I showed her the names of the different coins. She identifies and says penny and nickel. Something interesting: when she picked up the nickel, she put five fingers up and said five. Neither my husband nor I taught her that a nickel is five. I wonder if she read it on the coin or picked it up somewhere along the way...hmmm..

[ELeducation]

I just have to share that today my LO decided she wanted to help me read a book that we just checked out of the library...it was a short Power Phonics book with one sentence on one side and a picture on the other. She excitedly read the words she knew as I read the book running my finger along the bottom of each word. So exciting!!!

[ELeducation]

  My LO is continuing to progress in reading...she helps me read some short books. She's much more eager to read when it's a book that she finds interesting. She loves books about animals, and she's loving the Mathstart books as well. I read most of the words while I run my finger under the words, and she sight reads (quite excitedly at times) the words that she knows. It's still a work in progress of course, but the journey is so fun! I love that she loves books so much! And math too! I'm really going to try to be more consistent with reading bear...it seems that there aren't enough hours in a day to fit everything in.

Any updates from anyone on reading progress?

[Evelyn2108]

ELEducation,

I'm so glad I found this thread again. 
It was so wonderful reading through all your updates, especially since your little one is just a few months ahead of mine.  It's funny that you mention preschool prep, I was just copying the dvd's to my laptop.

My little guy is now 16months.  Our biggest challenge right now is that there are still many sounds that he can't say.  I suspect he knows all his letters, but he can't make the sounds for - c, f, g, j, k, q, s, x, z.    Also, when he reads he doesn't enunciate the whole word, and he doesn't say multiple syllables.  So his "ball" and his "block" sound really similar. 

We've been using primarily little reader and reading bear.  He's got well over 100 words in his vocab now, but as I mention above, it's hard to know what's really going on!   

It's so cute, when we go for walks outside he is always running up to signs, pointing out words, letters, numbers.  He loves it. 

I'm hoping to have some more success with the preschool prep programs.  We will start with sight words.  We've used the numbers dvd and he LOVED it, he knows his numbers very well (although he only says 1, 2, 3, 9, 10) 

Please keep up the updates ELEducation!  I bet your kiddo is reading up a storm by now! 

[ELeducation]

Hi Evelyn2108,

It sounds like your little guy is coming along quite well    How wonderful that he has so many words in his day to day vocabulary! I bet he does know the sounds and just has trouble vocalizing them. You don't have to wait for him to learn the sounds before you move on to the sight words. You will be surprised at how quickly he learns them! Try the apps too! They're great for reinforcing if your child prefers using the iPad instead of flashcards. Or use both
Are you doing Little Reader and Reading Bear regularly?  I started a new thread with an update and some questions in the teach your child to read section. My daughter is 24 months now and is oh so close to taking off with her reading/decoding!
It's great that he knows his numerals too. Have you introduced quantities? A good idea for this is to print out large numerals and place circle stickers/dots on them representing that number, so the numeral 1 will have one dot on it, the numeral 2 will have two dots, etc. Another idea is to show him one dot when the numeral 1 pops up on the screen, two dots when 2 comes on, and so on.
Keep the updates coming as well I love to hear all of the different perspectives, ideas, adventures, and early learning progress.

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