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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Reading Bear and Fruit Snacks
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on: July 16, 2012, 01:37:06 AM
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Well, now there are 32 presentations posted. When H. was reading up to this point, he really didn't need the cards. At that point, when I showed him new cards, he would come out with the words without me sounding them out and even without me telling him about the rule that we were learning.
We're going to have another 6 posted by next Tuesday the 24th, or maybe the 27th anyway. We should have all 50 posted sometime in August.
@sonya, we aren't "done" with any presentations yet. We won't be truly done until he is reliably reading all the words quickly and confidently. At least, that's the method I used with H. and it seems to be working more or less with E., too. I let E. pick which of the first five he wants to tackle. He's been very much into the "pot" presentation ("short o") so he has mastered many of those words. He knows many others, and can usually blend words even after one slow sounding-out. But the whole idea, I think, is that phonics is cumulative. So I want to make sure he has the first five (short vowel) sounds down very well. By the time he has the first five down cold, then it'll be a lot easier to pick up new rules. That's how it was with H. The first several presentations, when they're still figuring how letters generally hook up with sounds and figuring how to go from sounding out to blending, are the hardest.
We're going through the whole "Sound It Out Slowly" presentations first a few times, then when that seems to be getting easy/boring, when start going through them at "Sound It Out Quickly," and then go to the A, B, C etc. parts of the presentations and have him try them at "Let Me Sound It Out." He can do the latter pretty well with A and B of "short o."
We're being pretty low-key and unsystematic about it. But that was also our approach with H. (believe it or not).
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Reading Bear and Fruit Snacks
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on: July 08, 2012, 04:27:41 AM
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Baby E. is now 21 months and he's the same way. When he was 10 months, he was OK with Reading Bear but it wasn't quite his bag; he tolerated it and even liked it, but only in small doses. Then when he was, say, 14 or 16 months, he started to like it and we could do it several times a week. Then in the last month or so he comes up to me and begs "Reading Bear!" (or "Beah! Beah!") all the time, so we're watching a few times a day.
I'm seeing the same thing happen with E. that happened with H., at about the same age. (E. is a little more advanced now than H. was at least in his decoding and overall language ability, although H. liked books more and could handle and sit still for more advanced books.) I'm seeing the pattern again where E. gets very focused on the words and the pronunciations and, while he learns how to speak, he learns how to read. Since we started Reading Bear more systematically, his vocabulary and ability to articulate have both improved hugely; he's speaking much more in sentences now, too. Sometimes, we try the "Sound it out fast" or even "Let me sound it out" presentations," but we still use the "Sound it out slowly" presentations, and he participates by saying the word as soon as he can figure it out. H. was the same way, although we were using flash cards. I would start sounding out a word; if it was difficult, I might have to sound it out a couple times, and then he'd produce the whole word. Later, I'd start sounding it out, and he'd immediately say the word before I could finish. Finally, I didn't have to sound it out at all, he'd just see brand new words, illustrating brand new rules, and say them. He was at that stage by the time we got to the rules in Reading Bear presentation #20 or so.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Phonics vs. Sight Reading
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on: July 02, 2012, 07:24:51 PM
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Reader in the Night, thanks (belatedly) for your inspirational (to me) words!
This morning I published presentation #27. It's all coming together now. You'll see through 32 by (hard deadline) next Tuesday, and if all goes well, a full set of 50 by August 21 (yes, we've set yet another hard deadline...).
Indeed I'll have to make some hard decisions on what to do and how to do it. I cannot currently grok precisely what is possible and how. I don't want to spend another 18 months ramping up a giant project. I want to spend more time actually producing content and less on the programming and, even worse, the editing of files and such. I also want to think hard about what is the most important thing I might be doing. I don't want to make a whole library of presentations only to find that they are not very popular. I mean, it would be nice for the relatively few people who use PowerPoint presentations and similar things with toddlers & preschoolers, but I want to have a bigger impact than that.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Baby reading
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on: June 28, 2012, 02:42:39 PM
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We often show flashcards (or, more often, flashcard apps) to baby first thing in the morning, while still in bed. Baby E. also usually sits still with Papa to look at Reading Bear in late afternoon. That could be our idiosyncratic habit, though.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / YourBabyCanRead.com offline?
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on: June 26, 2012, 08:49:50 PM
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Anyone have any info on the fate of YourBabyCanRead.com? The site has posted this message: From all of us at Your Baby Can Read,
thank you for being such great customers.
We are sorry our site is no longer active. If you wish to buy our products, you may find them on Amazon.com.
I haven't talked to Robert Titzer about it. I think he's more closely associated with InfantLearning.com, which I believe is the company with U.S. rights to the program; but that website is completely down (as of this writing). I do notice that they have what appears to be an active Amazon page. |
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