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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Early readers don't read with comprehension-true?
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on: June 15, 2010, 11:59:39 AM
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My experience with my little boy is that I would normally ask questions before, during, after reading a particular book. I would sometimes even ask the next day or even a few days/weeks after and he would remember all about the story or stories he read. Sometimes I would forget some things about the story but my chid would remember and let me know. I find it helpful to ask him to re-tell the story and then we would role play or act out the story and the lines or do some activities relating to it and this further enhances his memory and comprehension as a whole.
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Vid: Do schools kill creativity?
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on: May 13, 2010, 01:30:01 PM
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I found this video of Sir Ken Robinson very interesting. I agree with everything he discussed especially when he said this about creativity , "We don't grow into creativity. We grow out of it. Or rather, we are educated out of it." Generally, most schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking while downplaying the right-brain ones. It would be best to have a balance of both or possibly giving more emphasis on harnessing the creativity within.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: YBCR v LR?
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on: April 21, 2010, 01:33:58 AM
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I totally agree with what nhockaday said. If you can afford to buy LR and YBCR DVDs together then go for it and let your child experience both. But if you had to choose between the two, I would highly recommend LR.
LR is a brilliant software learning program and YBCR is an interesting DVD-based learning system. I have used both when my son was 11 months. Dr. Titzer recommends that you show each of the 5 YBCR DVDs daily for about a month or 2 before moving to the next. We finished YBCR after a few months, whereas, LR, has since been part of my son’s daily reading. LR’s method allows you to show the lessons once or twice a day, with different lesson types to choose from (making it more exciting for the child). In my opinion, I like LR more because children get to see TONS of words and you can personalize the lessons and make use of multimedia options to capture the child’s interest. The YBCR videos, although entertaining, was quite limiting because it just shows less than 200 words as compared to over 3,000 words of LR and a lot more with the files you can download and show your child. With exposure to MORE words (not to mention LR has a good phonics section too), children can figure out the rules of phonics on their own, eventually allowing them to read by themselves.
Both LR and YBCR are multisensory in nature. However, LR is more flexible as it can encourage reading at your child’s own pace and allow more interaction to further reinforce the learning experience.
The versatility of LR makes it so simple and easy to use. Just press play and the lesson for the day is already set. It will take just a few minutes for the lesson while the DVDs will take about 40 minutes. Since you also want to start teaching your child with 3 languages, LR is definitely a good source to start with.
You may want to consider getting the lifetime LR and LM as well and save up on costs. They recently came up with a Deluxe kit so it’s a complete learning system, not just the software. Hope this helps!
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