you're baby can read? really?

[theruby]

I don't know if this is the right place but I have just found out about the "you're baby can read" and I was wondering if anyone else has tried it or if it works

here's a link to the website www.yourbabycan.co.uk/Index/ if you don't know what I'm talking about but really you'll only be able to help if you do know about it!

gah

ROFL!!!!!

My baby can punctuate.

you are baby can read hey? Magical........

Dd is 2 and a half, she's been able to read a few words for about 6 months. She knows mummy, daddy, nanny, her own name and a few others. I didn't buy her anything to teach her to, we just wrote stuff down as part of drawing/doodling together. She recognises and can tell you the sounds of a lot of letters too, and can sing her alphabet. They can do a lot if they want to and it's fun - you don't have to pay out good money for it though!

If anyone HAS read this thread with anything other than distain with interest, Can I please direct you to my first post (it's about the 3rd).

There are MANY downsides to a child who develops too quickly. Forcing a child is really NOT on.

That is all.

It's YOUR not YOU'RE

There. I said it.

I asked my mum about this a few years back. My mum was a sterling teacher of reception age, one of the top teachers if I'm not too biased to say so, and she ran a playgroup too. Her opinion was yes, you could teach your baby to 'read' but its word recognition rather than true reading.

How they teach them at school means that they can have a pretty good go at reading any new word they come across. How this teaches, they only learn to read the words they have been taught. Her opinion was quite firmly to stick to the schools method, at school age.

HTH.

Rightbugger - My 2.7YO is the same. Can sing the alphabet (but there again, to her, it's just another nursery rhyme) and can spell small (3-4 letter words). I think that's pretty standard.

I'm hanging my head in shame Lemarch

Gemma, my mother was a teacher and taught us all to read before we started school. And that's read, not parrot. It's not hard to do. And you don't need to make 3 easy payments.

Haha, it just jumps out.

They are with a big glass of wine and fat fingers

And (though it shames me to say) t'was the right thing to do

Myself and my two brothers could all (properly) read before we started school. Apparently it is less common now

Me too, proper books too. But I was a genius and started school a year early (and my biggest sister was doing her teacher training, hence I was her guinea pig). Made primary school effing boring.

I think there is some resistance to teaching kids early now, gnocci because the teachers have to teach the children to the same method and are tested on that.

I have heard from friends that their kids who were taught in America (very good readers / writers) have done poorly since moving to the UK, because the American system teaches ABC whereas UK schools use phonics, so the way a child learns is different, plus I suppose there are differences in grammar / spellings etc.,

So, I think many schools prefer children to be all at approx. the same level at Reception.

Shall I sing the wine song now? It seems about the time...

I started singing the wine song the minute my children were asleep hours ago

I'm sure very young children can be taught to read if you've really got nothing better to do, but what's the point? None of my childrne even knew the names of letters before they started in reception and they were beyond excited to learn and come home and tell us. We had fun before they went to school!

OP, the method is word recognition and thus not so helpful when they start to read properly. Plus with the flashcards etc the method seemed very like hothousing and didn't appeal to me. Trust me, there are way more fulfilling things you can do with you & your baby's time.

If you're looking for a way to improve communication with a pre-verbal baby, we had great success with baby signing, and the research shows that this really helps their language development later on too.