Hello I have not experienced this. When is your daughter turning five? What program did you do to get her to start to read and how long did it take her from reading teh sight words to reading all the other words? I did Doman with my kids when they were 2.5 years old and it never worked. I followed it religiously. They are soon 4 in a month. So last month I introduced the PReschool PRep Sight Words LEvel 1 and they are reading the early readers that go with it but I find that they need Large amounts of repetition with the sight words for it to finally click. Just five times as Doman says is not enough. My question to you is when do they go from reading the sight words in PReschool Prep to all the other sight words? They can decode basic CVC words.
I learned a lot from your reply. I will skip Little Math. We will do counting at home, math games at home, and they do Montessori math at school.
In terms of reading- I think we will hold off on Little Reader. After I did the trial I realized that two of the three need way more repitition. We showed them the sight words now for 3 weeks from Preschool Prep. With one of them, it totally stuck. With the other she rememebrs 50% of the words (after 3 weeks, twice a day!) and the third can not even recognize one word on a flash card (not even I or a). I am being serious. She just still can't recognize any of the sight words. She's captivated by the video but I don't think is processing it. I will still show it to her and will incorporate reading bear. She does not have any developmental delays but I guarantee you she cant recognize the words.
I will start on Little Music and wait later to do a foreign language. But Im about to give up on one of them to teach them how to read early. I don't think it is her main interest right now. She prefers to be hands on and do things with her hands....the other two I can continue with them. What are your thoughts on my strategy?
Thank you!! YEs, I spent a lot of time on doing Doman manually. it was so much work and I had so much hope for it. I spent all of my time on it!!! Laundry and dinners sometimes went to the back burner. Oh and I only slept 4 hours a night then. I was too busy making flash cards! xoxoxo
I have soon-to-be four year old triplets! Yes, 3! They will be four at the end of the summer. When they were 2.5 years old I heard about the Doman flash card method and immediately started it. I made thousands of flash cards and showed them 1-3 times a day depending on interest. I did them consistently over 3-5 days. Nothing. Nothing. And nothing 1.5 years later. My kids still can't read. I don't think they were absorbing any of the words. Sometimes I would show them two cards and ask them to show me XYZ word and they would sometimes get it right. So a few months ago I stopped the program completely. I invested so much money and time in ti. I created flash cards with phrases, sentences, books, I found pictures cut them out and make home-made stories. The time invested was unbelievable. But all worth it to give my little ones the gift of early reading. We then moved on to basic phonics and they can now read a couple of the very early Bob Books (mostly Mat, Sam and Dot). But I stumbled along this website and I am willing to give it another try. But we already started Preschool Prep Sight words last week. And again, my trio love the DVD but I show them flash cards and they still cannot recognize one word. I show them the DVD twice a day. I show them the word "I" and I ask them what it says and they all look at me and clearly do not know. Is something wrong?
My questions: Is it too late to start with LR (they are soon 4)? Is it bad to do it in conjunction with Preschool Prep Sight Words? Will it confuse? Why don't my trio seem to get it? And why did the doman method not work at all with them. I gave it 1.5 years!
My other questions: Would love to get them started on LM. Are they too old? Should I start it? Would love to get them started on Little Music? Are they too old? If not, which should be the order I start it to the,: LR, Lm and then Music? Or wait for music?
Finally I would like to introduce Spanish. When????? If I do all LR, LM, Music and Spanish is that way too long? How long would it take? Don't forget with triplets I have VERY LITTLE time. And two of them still love temper tantrums and are more interested in writing on the walls than sitting and watching a video.
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