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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Starting Phonics and Forgetting Whole Words
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on: May 17, 2012, 08:24:41 PM
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i would use starfalls or readingbear.com. leapfrog, etc. teaching letters independently seems too boring for a 19 mos old and not really necessary. My 20mos old knows all her letters, letter sounds and words associated with them, she's known them for about 5-6 months now but we did it more so as a speech therapy to help her with vocalization, she picked up the alphabet from songs, I was trying to avoid teaching it to her since it's not necessary to know the name of the letter to read and spelling is far off.
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Parents' Lounge / General Parenting / Re: interesting tip on language development
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on: October 11, 2011, 11:46:09 AM
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But the common denominator is that your parents read to you, there's results there but the question is would you have been better readers if you had more variety. I have a nephew who will only read Tonka Town, we read it to him night and day, he hates books and can't read a lick at the age of 6. Reading to me is like toys, you don't give them a million to play with because they won't focus.
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Parents' Lounge / General Parenting / Re: interesting tip on language development
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on: October 10, 2011, 08:45:42 PM
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I agree you should read to them the same books over and over, but I don't think you have to limit the number of books you read to your children. If you were to read books building on similar topics, themes and characters, etc. this can haven even more impact since they are hearing more words, concepts, etc. For example, my 12mos old loves Dora, so have 5 dora books I read to her over and over again. Instead of her watching the show I play the music from the show and we read the books, sometimes all of them back to back.
What's important in my opinion is your child loving reading, writing, math, you can develop that by treating books like toys and always having them available and adding more as needed.
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