Your Baby Can Read! (teaching, parents, child, school)
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I don't think you need to spend extra money on a "product" to read with your child. We read to our daughter also since day one. Every night for about 30 minutes, as her wind down time we would read to her. She is 9 years old and is a voracious reader. She is reading at about the 7th grade level at the moment, but to be honest I really don't care about that I'm just happy she enjoys reading.
I am a huge reader so she and I will read our books to eachother sometimes. This is yet another way to spend quality time with her.
I agree that reading to your child every day is the best thing possible. Most public libraries have story and activity times for kids of all ages. Also just talking to your baby a lot. I found in the grocery store, a great way to keep a young child occupied is to talk, point out things, explain things, even if I just fuss about prices, she was interested and engaged instead of trying to pull things off the shelf and screaming. Trust me, you don't need to spend a ton of money to teach your baby anything.
I agree that reading to your child every day is the best thing possible. Most public libraries have story and activity times for kids of all ages. Also just talking to your baby a lot. I found in the grocery store, a great way to keep a young child occupied is to talk, point out things, explain things, even if I just fuss about prices, she was interested and engaged instead of trying to pull things off the shelf and screaming. Trust me, you don't need to spend a ton of money to teach your baby anything.
Totally agree with you. A public library card and books from dollar bins and discount stores (the big pharmacies tend to have two dollar books) for home, and you're set for every day reading with your little one.
I don't understand why a baby should read in the first place. Let babies be babies! They have so much to learn already!
I too think that reading to them and looking at picture books with them is enough.
Yeah I already read to her everyday. She LOVES curious george but I thought the commercial of the little babies reading was cute but it does make sense they are just memorizing not actually reading so I think ill pass on it. Thanks!
That product makes me fear for proper development of a child, a child probably should be learning the language phonetically, sounding out words, learning the relation of letters to sounds, and understanding that sounds can be strung together to make words, and then words can be strung tohether to express concepts.
Your Baby Can Read is just rote sight memorization, how can that be built on?
I don't know anything about the product, but I have a question. What's wrong with sight memorization? It's how English speakers know that tough, though, cough, and bough do not rhyme. Phonetics certainly have their place, but English does not have consistent phonetics. Quite a bit of our language has to be learned through memorization. You cannot spell through by sounding it out. Memorization is also how people know the difference between through and threw.
The Dick and Jane books, which I remember reading in preschool, relied on memorization and anticipated rhyming. Many of the Dr. Seuss books like Cat in the Hat do also.
I don't know anything about the product, but I have a question. What's wrong with sight memorization? It's how English speakers know that tough, though, cough, and bough do not rhyme.
Phonetics certainly have their place, but English does not have consistent phonetics. Quite a bit of our language has to be learned through memorization. You cannot spell through by sounding it out. Memorization is also how people know the difference between through and threw.
The Dick and Jane books, which I remember reading in preschool, relied on memorization and anticipated rhyming. Many of the Dr. Seuss books like Cat in the Hat do also.
Thanks for clarifying.
There has been a whole language VERSUS phonics debate in the education system since whole language as some kind fun special new educational idea came about when my nephew was in grade school about 25 years ago. As I recall it, whole language instruction began as a response to the rule breakers you give examples of. The two factions were so busy proving the superiority of their method, in my opinion, they missed the fact that instructing in both is the best choice.
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but I thought the commercial of the little babies reading was cute but it does make sense they are just memorizing not actually reading so I think ill pass on it. Thanks!
