How I taught my toddler to read

[MonkeynoseMomma]

Jeimy34,
Thanks for the link to Librarything. Looks like a good list you've got . I think I'm going to start using this, too. What a great idea fir her to pick her books.

[esra]

Hello all, thanks for your sharings. I love reading your experiences. And here is my experience. I am 30 years old and mother of 11 months old Mehmet. He has always been happy baby thanks god. He was also very active and alert baby. For this reason I couldn't keept him on my breast for long and he started to refuse breast feeding because he was stearing around a lot:)Then I started expressing milk and giving formula milk after his 4th month. The only way we can keep him steady was showing number flash cards. He loved a lot liistenng us counting and showing cards to hiim. After some time we asked him to show any number, and he showed us what iit is. it was very surpriising for us. This is how we started learning. Later I bought a turkish book which advices showiing words to babies. Then I started to show 10 of any words at the same time. He was just very curious and very consantrated during that times. and now I have prepared another 10 set of words and started to show him with pictures. He sometimes cries for another round with words. My concern is I guess I am very slow . I found that site 2 days ago. And I guess I am not doiing teaching properly:S My another concern is he has not started talkiing in turkiish-mother tongue. Before that I don't want to start teachiing english. But it is very difficult to find turkish materials in Bristol.For ths reason I am printng out myself.  What do you advice me to do after that stage and do u thng we r on the rght way? sorry for the 'i'letter. mehmet has lost it:D
cheers esra

[Ana3]

I just love all the information that is available out there and the fact that it can be shared with other parents, ie. librarything...Thanks
I also love the fact that you can teach your baby to read with little or no money ie... fancy programs... although there is nothing wrong with them, it can be done without them.


Thanks Moms

[cafemocha]

That is incredible!!! Hats off to you for your patience and dedication!  My son is already 4 years old.  Can I still do that to him now?  He likes books very much and I noticed that he recognizes the word ON.  I hope that is a good indication.   When he was just an infant I did my own flash cards in addition to the ones we bought and did that every day.  But I got lazy.  I hope it's not too late for me and my son.

Thanks very much for sharing!!

[teachermom]

I'm using YBCR though I stopped for a while because my LO didn't seem as interested anymore; too active. Now I'm showing once a day  or a few times a week. A question about starfall . . . how often do you do it and how many letters did you do a day/week?  I've been using it for quite some time now and before would just do two letters a day and then move on to our other two learning sites but I just started a focus letter a week though I still do two (a review or with the upcoming letter).

Now, I started doing two letters a day but focusing really on one letter a week, showing her power point flashcards of just that letter, words beginning with the letter, the letter around the house and short clips from sesame street I saved on youtube as a playlist. I'm not stressed about her learning the letters but thought, what the hay. It helps to organize our day, and so far, she seems to like it.  I just was wondering, is a letter a week too slow?

I'm still doing power point flashcards but she really likes the letters so started that too.

I've always read to my LO but she only really became interested in sitting to read books with me since I weaned her (at 18 months). She always liked books but mostly wanted to take them to "read" on her own. Now, she reads several books before naptime and bedtime and is interested in stories rather than picture and her toddler board books. I think she really likes the books we have (it's a set from Scholastic) because I can pick out books with things she recognizes or that are familiar to her day. Also, the books are very simple (they teach site words to older kids) so don't have many words on the page.

Sorry, I ended up sharing more than asking but was just wondering about what I'm doing and what you thought.

[Tanikit]

I'd see what your child thinks. I did two letters a day with my daughter until I had done about 8 letters and then she seemed to jump to wanting the entire alphabet so now I just show her a few letters whenever she seems interested. She also has an alphabet book with small letters printed in it (b rather than B) and she seems to know the entire book now anyway, though she may be guessing some from the word and picture. If I ask her what a letter says she very often will just say a word that starts with that letter.

I am starting three letter word phonics with her now, but have taken a while to get organised so it may still be slow.

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