My pleasure

Hello Joha,

You don't need to create a separate card unless you want to.  You can just lay your cards side-by-side.  This way you can mix them up and even get silly.

My husband and I launched our business last year.  We make products to help parents teach their babies to read.  Our websites are www.monkisee.com and www.intellbaby.com.  I have the blog so I can share what I have learned in all the years I have been teaching my kids.

I use pointing as the main way of teaching my 2 year old to read.  I am constantly showing her words wherever we see them.  We read the toothpaste, the juice bottle, the egg carton, you name it.  I believe that if we show our babies words, they will learn to read.

You could also make the words into a book.  Put a word on one page and a picture of the item on the other page.  Those are fun for babies.  You could do the same thing with LR or a Power Point Presentation.

I would consider the words to be retired and just review them from time to time.  You could also make them into couplets.  For example, you can have silver refrigerator, black couch, wood table, etc...

If your baby were excited about them forever, then you should be concerned.  Just be creative and think of ways you can still use the words your baby has learned.  You can also get sentence strips and a pocket chart.  I have this in my baby's room and they are wonderful.  You can create sentences such as:

I sit on the black couch.
Open the refrigerator, please.

Your baby will learn these words as you point to each one while you read the sentences.  You can also you a chalk board or dry erase board to write sentences as well.  I have lots of teaching ideas on my blog at www.teachingbabytoread.com

KL

We should talk about discounts for Monki See Monki Doo products also

Here are some of the books that I have read off the list and enjoyed. 

The Gruffalo
Eat Your Peas
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See
We're Going On A Bear Hunt - I really like this book.  I have read it before but my daughter heard it for the first time yesterday.  She asked me to read it to her 4 times in a row.  It has a lot of repetition, which is great for developing language skills.  The words are large so you can easily point to the text.  Because of the repetition you can pause and have your child fill in a word.  I read this with a lot of feeling and excitement and my daughter just loves it.  The other books are cute too.  I really like The Gruffalo.

Some favorites that weren't on the list would be:
Guess How Much I Love You
What Do You Do With A Kangaroo - This book is great
Is Your Mama A Llama?
Roxaboxen - I love this book!  The illustrations inspired our own version of their game for my children.
Time For Bed

I have a whole bunch more books on hold at the library, so I will continue this post...

Thank you so much!  I just made a list of all the ones I haven't read, which is most of them.  I am going to see what I can get from my library.  I love stuff like this.  I will keep notes of my favorites and share them here.

If you go to www.childandme.com at the following link http://www.childandme.com/teach-your-child-read-multimedia/ there are reviews to many products.

From the website here is a review for Monki See Monki Doo:

This is a DVD actually designed and produced by one of the members of TeachYourBabyToRead group. I had lots of mixed feelings when I just got this DVD, expecting it to be non-professional type of videos that are usually coming out from home production… and I was very pleasantly surprised! This DVD turned out to be well made and I actually found it exceptionally good for the little ones! The initial DVD targets kids up 2 years old. It incorporated the good features of many other DVDs for the small babies: similarly to Baby Einsteins they have lots of baby’s favorite images - kids, animals, and even engaging scenes with cute puppets (my kid used to love them when he was smaller). But that’s not all! It has songs, it has poems, it even has little animations! This video actually does what it promises: it helps you to get started with a reading program with kids - it shows 40 introductory words, that are common in baby’s everyday vocabulary.What I absolutely loved was that the words are not animated, like in LeapFrog, they don’t have any distracting shadows and backgrounds, images on the words themselves… it is just so Doman to show large red words and to read it loud and clear. The words are followed by a small demonstration: kids pointing to the body parts, or an animal (if the word was an animal), or a puppet show.What I loved the most about the video is the amount of comments. My major complain about Baby Einstein videos is that they are mostly silent. On the rare occasions when I was showing Baby Einsteins to my son, I’d usually sit next to him and comment every image, every action, every animal. “Monkey See” does that for you: it has plenty of good comments on actions and imagery, plenty of songs and poems that are read nicely and clearly, so mom’s work would really amount only to hugs for the baby who is watching it.My son’s reaction: he is almost three. He has outgrown it (unfortunately!). He was interested for the first part of the show, but he is watching a lot more advanced videos by now and this is for the little babies. So I just turned on the slide show of the words that is available at the end. He was glad to review the old words that he has seen before, and I was glad there was such a simple way to show just the words themselves!In all honesty, if I ever could do a DVD for my kid, that’s how I’d like to do it. I was so charmed that I’ll be definitely showing it to my number #2 one who’ll hopefully join us soon and I’ll be looking forward for more videos from this series.

Young At Art is an awesome book for teaching toddlers art.  I can't read a page without making a bunch of notes.  I am really enjoying it.

Thanks Joha,

Where exactly can I find them?

I listened to these once, but I really found them helpful.  I have been attempting to learn Spanish forever and they teach you the correct pronunciation of the words, which is really helpful.  I realized that I was saying some words like an American speaking Spanish.  I just haven't made the time to continue on.

Excellent!  Thank you!

Brainy Baby in English are very nice.  They have lots of talking with many interesting facts.  They teach all kinds of things on their videos.

We have free labels available at www.monkisee.com.  Just click on Freebies on the right side.  They are all lowercase in a large red font.  You can even laminate them if you want them to last longer.  It is a great way to teach your child to read new words around the house.

Krista
View my blog at www.teachingbabytoread.com

Norcalmommy,

No, I didn't show all the words individually.  That was the point I was trying to make.  You can skip over the steps as needed and go back to the beginning.  You can teach words in sentences and books that haven't been seen yet, but still work on single words and couplets.  I have found it is not a straight path, it curves a lot.  It is exposure, exposure, exposure to language that helps them to develop the ability to read.  I read everything to my children.  While we make breakfast I show them what everything says.  My daughter can read all the words on the sugar packet and the word Toyota on the van, etc...  Every time you show your child a word, they are making a connection.  They are learning the phonetics of the language as well as the words.  I am always on the lookout for words that are not tiny that I can point out.  It is really just a way of life for us.  I want my children to understand that words are everywhere and we can read them.  I hope this is helpful for you.  I have also labeled the house with just about every one of my six children.  We have some free labels to put up in your home on our website.  You just point out the words a few times a day as you are in the house and the babies learn a whole bunch of new words.  You can have magnetic letters on the fridge and make different words each week.   You can use foam letters in the tub and teach words related to the bathroom.  I had a dry erase board and with my son, under one in my arms would write sentences for him to read.  I would see his eyes following along.  I would write Joshua is handsome, or Joshua is my son.  He had not seen the word handsome, it was he learned in a sentence.  Don't be afraid to jump into sentences, it makes reading a lot more fun.  I think that was the biggest revelation I had with teaching my children to read.  They can read sentences very soon after learning words.  You can see the printable house labels at www.monkisee.com.  Just click on Freebies on the right side and the labels are there.  View my blog at www.teachingbabytoread.com.

I just answered another post similar to this question.  I have taught my son, now 4 years old to read, and am working with my daughter.  I showed him tons of single words up until about two years old.  We were reading sentences by that time, but I kept introducing new words.  I would think of any word I could that he had heard that we could include in the program, words like excellent, terrific, stupendous.  I started to have a lot of fun coming up with new words.  We did jump around with the steps outlined by Doman.  I began showing him sentences at 12 months old.  I didn't spend much time with couplets, we read sentences by pointing to each word.  We also read a lot of books.  Don't be afraid to mix the order up a bit between words, couplets, phrases, etc...  Many times they will overlap.  Check out my blog at www.teachingbabytoread.com for ideas and tips.