Hi Nadia! It's been a long time! So happy to see the progress your angels have made. You're doing a fantastic job!   Preschool prep videos also helped us a lot. Cammie was fascinated by it before and so is Soren now (4mos old). It's just that sometimes, the voice-overs sound very stern that sometimes my baby boy would get startled and cry. I wonder if sounding the voice-overs that way has a purpose?

Thanks for the kind words PokerDad. You must be so excited for your baby. I remembered when I found out about early learning, I could not wait for Cammie to be born so we could start already. 

Thanks Krista G.    Tweedlewink dvd's are the only ones that has speed-reading lessons that she's been exposed to.

On a different note, I just remembered now that whenever she's watching videos on the ipad, she would "speed-play" it until the voices becomes "chipmunk-like". I thought she was just playing but maybe it's because she likes to "speed-watch" it? There's a learning dvd that teach in this way. The lessons are fast and the audio is also fast, almost like a chipmunk's.

Having separate reading sessions for speed-reading and reading aloud is a great idea. Thanks Anna I've read that "intelligent" reading doesn't require one to read every single word so I guess skipping over the articles is a good thing? Not in reading aloud for sure!

Cammie has been showing signs of speed reading  but we never paid special attention to it. Sometimes she would flip through a book so fast then tell me she's done reading it. I would ask her questions about the book and she will know the answer. But not until she's 3yrs and a 1month old, out of curiosity that I decided to "prove" it. I flashed a page of a random book to her and she recited the sentence/s back to me. I did this with a new book she got for Christmas and one more time with a random book in a bookstore (just in case she had just memorized her old books) and she read it back just as fast!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/aM0NkYTMEDk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/aM0NkYTMEDk&rel=1</a>

In here, she read aloud a new book, taken a month after her 3rd bday. She's been speed-reading so much that I have to re-take the video 3-times because she's reciting the words so fast. To make her slow down, I told her to "read to me" instead of reading aloud hence the "fillers" in her reading.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Or-eSkXLZH8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Or-eSkXLZH8&rel=1</a>

Here's her latest video taken last month (she's turning 3yo 3mos). It's her first time to see this e-book, not even a glance. She still "hurries" to read but is getting comfortable reading aloud.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NkFgXf_tVSM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NkFgXf_tVSM&rel=1</a>

Question: Would you encourage reading aloud more or focus on honing speed-reading instead?

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Anyone interested to swap copies?

I have:

Signing Time Complete Series 1 (13 dvds)
Signing Time Complete Series 2 (13 dvds)
Baby Signing Time (4 dvds + 4 practice dvds)
YBCR Complete Set
Tweedlewink 1-7
Glen Doman Picture Dictionary CD-Roms (Bits Flashcard Software) 10 cd's
Trebellina
Memory Magic
Little Pim English, Spanish, Chinese Complete Sets
Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Sight Words
Rosetta Stone Spanish All Levels
Rosetta Stone Mandarin All Levels
Leap Frog Letter Factory, Storybook Factory, Talking Words Factory, Math, Let's Go To School
eMedia My Piano Software

SWAP to copies of:
Tweedlewink 8,9,10,11
Jones Genuises Kit


PM me if interested. Thanks!

I'm sure your little one will get there in no time! =) Keep us updated, I'm excited for you!

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               Date Uploaded: June 29, 2010
               Name:   Cammie (child) and Vanessa (mother)
               Filename: little reader and cammie.mov

This is just wonderful Martusia! Thank you for sharing! Love the video your little one.

Thank you waterdreamer, PY, Joha, Martusia, 2010BEBES and Zaja! Yes, we are very happy with the results but what's really significant is the the journey that we had. Mostly it has been FUN for all of us! What's amazing is that it is the first time that I showed Cammie that "story" on Little Reader. Many of the words are new to her. She isn't sight-reading but reading phonetically. =)

2010BEBES, that's sounds so fun! I have a question for you. Does the memory game plays in such a small screen? I can't seem to find a way to enlarge the screen showing the pictures. Thanks in advance for you help.

Shen-Li, I find the videos sooo cute! I wish my Cammie would do things like that. Daddude and I share the same situation - DD wants to "destroy" more than build. She is urged to scatter and mess-up things that are in order and she's so excited to do it!

Keep your faith because they do understand.  After reading a book with my little one, I would ask questions about the story that we read and she would answer me correctly.  I would rephrase the questions just to make sure she's not just remembering the order of words but still she would not be confused.  However, it might be true that some children may learn to read first and understand later.

Thanks Vani! Regards to your family :-)