Anyone teaching their toddler to read?

[iluvchips]

The other week I bought a book called 'Teach Your Baby To Read' by Glenn Doman, (it was a bargain from an NCT sale). I'd like to know if anybody's done this with help from this book?

I don't know how old your toddler is but I suggest that this free, Teeny Reading Seeds resource
www.phonicsinternational.com/trs.html would be far more successful and fun for a little one that Dolman's old hat, look and say method.
TRS also fits with what your child will be doing when they start school.

Thanks for that. Have had a look and it does have a totally different approach to the one suggested in the Doman book. I'm thinking a mix of the two approaches would be the most useful when learning how to read- and to only do reading type activities whilst my little one is enthusiastic and interested- which makes sense.

Surely with toddlers all this is needed is to spend time with them reading and learning to enjoy books? Why the need to teach them when so young?

We were told not to teach toddler to read and to wait until school. Mainly because there are many things toddler's like doing other than learning to read, but it can get very boring in a classroom if everyone else is learning their sounds.

In Europe children don't read until much later

I think it is more advisable to teach a toddler to talk! Enjoy books with them, talk to them, read to them, encourage them to tell you what they have been doing, re-tell stories, do role-play ... enhance their language by using lots of adjectives, complex sentences ... everything else will just fall into place when they start school. In my opinion, its a waste of time to teach a toddler letters and how to blend them, before they can talk properly.