Hi All,

Can anyone share how successful is wink to learn program is?

I play wink to learn program as well as your baby can read to my 9mtsh old baby till now. I never tested her, so i am not sure whether she recognises the words. She is now 19months.

I just want to know the result, is it effective? 

I played it for my 3 years old kid. He couldn't recognised most of the words. I can say among all the dvd i played he knew only few words.

Aside of playing wink to learn + your baby can read simultaneously, i read to both of my kids daily by pointing words.

Care to share your result?

Thank you

Hi Waterdreamer,

Is really encouraging!

My son is 3 years 7 months old. I am not successful using Glenn Doman method. He is on phonics, taught by myself.

He seems improving but refuse to say a word and not very co-operative to read with me or pay attention on cards.

I just know he knew some words but not sure how good.

Anyone who has experience dealing with 3 to 4 years old who is not keen to say out words? Mind to share your success story.

Hi Lil,

I feel that your 4 yo daughter is doing great.

I have little comments about your Montessori Teacher. I feel that the teacher must be able to teach and INSPIRING your daughter. Seems like her teacher lacks of experience in handling her.

If she couldn't focus too long. Just split up to few times a day and slowly increase her attention.  May be maze, dot-dot, spot differences, cross words might help her to focus and concentrate better. I get my son do it almost everyday.

Just need to praise her a lot and make it fun. You can get some ideas from http://www.childandme.com/howteachbabyreadenglish/

My son is 3 years 7 months old. He recognises about 40 words, number 1-20, letter sound and name, basic shapes, basic colours, name of trucks.

I ever tried P&J and he has read up to book 2a & b yet still couldn't recognise the words. The worst thing is he hates it.

Now i teach him using phonics method. He is in short vowel 'a'. Think he should recognises more words soon.

I am considering to send him for kumon next year.

[Most importanly now is how shall i help him to read in a proper and effective manner?]

Hi,

Anyone keen to share the effective way to teach 3 years old to read? I would like to help my son to read when he turn 4. This is my biggest goal now.

I started teaching him to read when he just turned 3 this year. He is now 3yr 5 mth old. My way of teaching wasn't very successful.

He is currently on weekly zoophonics class to pick up lettersound , watch leapfrog at least 3 times a week (as he is getting bored of it and been watching for more than 2 months) and teach him to sound out at night as he knew only 50% of the lettersound.

My aim is to get his lettersound right by end of Sep09. Then i will use progressivephonics with assistance of leapfrog letter words when i am out for working.

I find that phonics the easiest way to get him to read. Any comments please?

Meanwhile, He is exposed to
4 categories of BITS (40 cards) +
5 chinese words +
WINK to Learn English 2-3 lessons (1 lesson 10 words with 10 pictures) +
MAGIC English (this is a series of DVD with BIG words and interesting story + songs) +
2-8 story books daily+
Listen to nursery rhymes + stories

Do you think i have overdo it?

I find that he seems like don't get to learn from Glenn Doman method. I never give up and still continually flashing to him.

Whatever BITs that i flashed before, he couldn't recognise. Eg: Flashed 7 continents for 10 days 3 times daily. Then, we play games with 7 continents using the same cards. The result is ZERO. I tested him on other cards too with same result too.

Whatever he learnt was through many repetitions using traditonal method. Eg: i paste the words on the wall, get him to read 3 times daily and read lots of books about the words or pictures, point to him the real objects then he can retain and learn better.

Flashing words or pictures don't work wonder for him. Why? Is it because of lack of explanation, not enough information to get him to retain the words or pictures that i taught him?

Anyone has the same experience?

Most importanly now is how shall i help  him to read in a proper and effective manner? Is his daily activities too much for him?

Appreciate experience mummies opinion and comments.

Lilttle about him
My son was on 2 hours playgroup daily when he was 21 months old and i never read him story nor expose him to good educational DVD/CD. Everyone told me not to be worried. They will learn to read when schooling.

This draw my attention when i noticed he couldn't express well even schooling  after a year, he was 3 years then. I sense the seriousness and quickly checked on internet and found amazing methods and children who can read so well when they are below 3 years old.

Since then, i started him GD but without success.

He has very short attention span. Even got him to watch Barney, Hi-Five, Sesame Street was very challenging. He watched less than 5 minutes and scream again.


This was what i did in the past months
I flashed words in Peter & Jane (P&J) graded book to him, once flashed 15 times immediately jump to P&J book 1a. While geting him to read P&J 1a, i continued flashing words in P&J book 2 and 3 and some words that he watched from wink to learn DVD.


Day time
1) Flash 10 English words (words from P&J) + 4 categories of BITS 2 times with 1 hour interval
2) Watch Wink to Learn English 2-3 lessons 2 times day time. He is on Level 3 now.
3) Teach him to read Peter and Jane a page 3 times with at least one hour interval. He hate it and had stopped for a month.
4) Watch his favorite DVD eg: Magic English (stories with big words), Leapfrog letter factory-(knew 50% of it)
5) listen to cd: nursery ryhmes, story , chinese poems.

Night time
1) Flash same word cards + BITs one time
2) Read 5-6 story books (english + chinese)
3) do some assessment book, 0-4 pages depend on his mood. If he is cranky, never do at all. This assessment might be maze, mathematic 1-10, matching game.
4) read chinese graded book, repeat words after me (1-2 times with 30 min interval). He hates this method.

During the 5 months of teaching, he knew the following:
a) recognise number 1-10, A-Z (upper and lower case), his name, about 20 chinese words, about 10 english words, basic shapes
b) recite 3 chinese tang poems with memory
c) know lettersound about 50%

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Wonderful.  I love it. Just one or two pictures aren't very clear when enlarge.

Thanks.