Louisiana Mommie, when did you start teaching him?

Jaluitgirl, thanks for taking time writing your experience with your son. I am new here and don't know how to give a karma to you? I understand that reading skills is a gradual process. That give me some idea: The kids probably learn new words quicklier the more words they know. Maybe we should add new words and retire old words more often after a while of teaching.

Speaking about test, I would be a bit disappointed when she answers wrong in a test (and that would be not good for the learing atmosphere), that's why I do not test my daughter often. Thus, I do not really know if she got word when it get retired. But I like the idea that it doesn't matter if they forget some words because they learned so quickly and so much. Moreover, when they are able to read new words they will able to read the forgotten words, too. Well, that is a long way to go. But I hope in 1/2 year I will also see some hint that she is able to "guess" words like your child  .

I see, each child is different. Anyway, I would still like to know what your experiences with your child are?

I actually prefer teaching to read without pictures (if the child already know the meaning), because I am afraid that he/she see sthe pictures most and pays less attention to the words.
At the first time I maked flash cards after the Glenn method, but soon my daughter get bored (we stucked with dots cards with the same problem by the way) and she just ran away. Now I have to use words and pictures together (with LR), otherwise she doesn't want to learn at all. For some words it is hard to find an approriate picture, therefore I mix those words together with the other one with pictures in a set .

Hello,

Twinergy daughter begins reading new worlds (http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/she-is-reading!!!/).

My daughter should be able to read between some % of 100 words now. I wondering after how many known words are the kids able to read new words on their own? Or after how many time (let say by 5 new words a day)?
What is your experience?

Here they have prounounciation where you can download the words you need:

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de

Hello everybody,

I started to teach my daughter to read a few weeks ago. We are Vietnamese living in Germany, so our daughter have only learned Vietnamese so far. Her next language will be German, when we will have found a German "nanny" (few hours/week) for her. But I am not sure about teaching her reading German since I am worried what if she become an outsider in school later. We don't want do homeschooling and at first place we like her to be sociable with other peers. In Vietnam it's usual that children can read - more or less - before the start school, so I am less worried about teaching her reading some Vietnamese.

I am wondering in which language shall I do the Encyclcopedic knowledge stuff (I want to start with it when she can really read, maybe in 1 year!?):

1. ENGLISH - because it is a "science language". There a already plenty materials and I do not have to translate and find the right word. But we are not English native speaker. And it would be hard for us to give her more information about an object in English and it would be also hard for her to understand (?).

2. GERMAN - I am not sure if we still live in Germany when she goes to school, but at least I can speak German fluently.

3. VIETNAMESE - her mother tongue, but spoken almost only by Vietnamese people. It is sometimes difficult to find the "right word" for complicated things the translation and spelling in Vietnamese wouldn't be unified - it depends on the translater. Or they simply use English oder French word for complicated things. One example is Xingapo = Singapo = Xin Ga Po ... (= Singapore).

Could anybody give me an advice?

I have read some of you do teach Encyclopedic Knowledge in serveral languages. How do you do that? Do you teach the same infomation more times then (each time in different language)?

Thanks for your help.