Research: Can babies learn to read? No, study finds

[Paddy Jim Baggot MD]

reading is like a spectrum, more than endpoint.

thus if i show a video of a 17 month old 'reading' ( with apologies to the child) and responding with gestures
to me it looks like reading;  some people would day its not.
obviously it its not a destination but a journey. 

i was trying to show my six year old how to set and solve an algebraic equation.
she has a very impressive vocabulary, both in english and spanish.
but she did not know what i meant when i used the word simplify
i could simplify the equation by subtracting the same number from both sides
she said what does "simplify" mean

[Drjuliadc]

I have to resurrect this old thread because I wrote that my 17 month old only new 4 sight words.  The week after I wrote that post, I was showing my father that he could read some sight words and it turns out he knew almost every sight word that I had ever shown him, hundreds.  I just hadn't ever tested him before.

He started to phonetically decode at around 20 months old.  He can phonetically decode most words, but usually doesn't phonetically decode people's names very well.  That is what his preschool teachers tell me anyway.  I still don't do anything like testing him, but he started preschool when he was 22 months old and the teachers were so shocked that he could read that they would "test" him in astonishment.  He doesn't mind being tested at all, I just rarely do it.

I can't say he intuited phonics from learning sight words because I showed him Preschool Prep videos and Leapfrog videos, which both include phonics.  I worked with him pretty intensely on learning letter sounds.  He learned them very quickly from Preschool Prep videos, but I went over them a lot to make sure they were "in there." 

He doesn't read sentences much, just words, but he doesn't like being read to, so I don't sit down and work with him on that either.

Other than being very consistent with Little Reader 5 days a week from 3 (almost 4) months old (We do it 3 times per week now that preschool started),  I would say I am very relaxed about all this.  I used to show flashcards but never very often.   Maybe once per week, but he would want to look at so many at one time, like 200 at a sitting, that maybe that helped a lot too.

I've barely shown him Reading Bear, but it helped him a lot indirectly.  My older son asked for Reading Bear a lot and so he watched it a fair bit, but we never finished it.  He started to say all the words on Little Reader out loud after Reading Bear prompted him to say their words.  Since my older son would say the Little Reader words out loud, my youngest does too. Neither of them ever did that before Reading Bear. This has helped their speech tremendously.

[ELeducation]

Wow! Thanks for the update how amazing that he was learning all that time and all of a sudden he showed you how much he knew (which was a great deal). It's great to read this in particular, for me, because my 15 month old daughter knows all of her letter sounds, and I feel she is on the cusp of a break through wih reading. She knows at least 15 sight words that she's shown me on her own and she reads letters everywhere making the letter sounds. I try not to test her either so sometimes it's hard to gauge where she is with her reading.
This update was perfectly timed for us. I keep meaning to expose her to Reading Bear but haven't done so yet. After reading this, I'm motivated to give it a go!

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