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!

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

Yeah... I bet they do

None of my childrne even knew the names of letters before they started in reception

Why?

There is a family joke that we have printers ink in our veins. A bunch of bookworms. We had a library at home as my parents hoarded books on all subjectds. We all would have a pile of books on the go at any one time. People don't read books so much now, do they?

narked cos they were having too much fuuuunnnn!!!!!!! no time for that rubbish learning nonsense.....

Ds could read a bit, but bloody hell he could count and do sums well! No pushing or coaching - he just found them really fascinating. Deffo not from me! A few maths bods in the family though.

Well, Gnocci, all I KNOW to be true is that there is a Reception teacher who is currently shitting herself about and desperately trying to get out of teaching my DS.

Mind you, it possibly has more to do with the fact that when my DS gets bored, he turns his attention to being as big a PITA as possible.

Frontpaw my house is filled almost entirely of books.

www.flickr.com/photos/hicksdesign/3055851094/

That is my house

Oh, my son's room is FILLED with books.

You can read all about Memories of Steam. Or the history or the GWR (or the LNER if you'd prefer). Steam on the IoW railway... The extension line from Fort William to Mallaig is a current favourite, as that was his 4th birthday treat. Oh, and there is a big book (plus 4 DVDs) about The Flying Scotsman. Other favourite engines are Deltics and Pendolinos.

It's a joy

On the plus side, 99% come from charity shops.

For the jubilee, he got a book on the history of the royal trains. 50p from Oxfam.

Seems others aren't as keen on trains as he is

Sadly we are in a small place but there are piles everywhere (and a full room in MILs) as DH is a big reader too! When we cleared out my parents old house we disposed of 40 boxes (big ones) of books. That was after all us kids swiped as many as our homes couls accommodate.

My DS2 learnt to read when he was 7. I cried.
He is going great guns now and his handwriting is much better than DS1's (who is 10!)

I am pretty sure me and my sibs could read before we went to school. I think it was the done thing in the 60s and 70s.

DS2's school were unconcerned that he couldnt read in year 2 (which is why I moved him to a different one).

DS1 is 18! not bloody 10!

My baby can read. He is 9 months and has just finished War and Peace. He is now reading the Harry Potter books for a bit of light relief.

"narked cos they were having too much fuuuunnnn!!!!!!! no time for that rubbish learning nonsense..... "

Hilarious!

Actually, they learned loads, they just didn't learn to read.

Where is OP?!

Bsl is great although my 4 month old thinks I'm crazy and just thinks the hand signs are the funniest silliest things!!

Worked with my neices brilliantly though

From my vast experience of 3 I would say there's no point forcing it but if your child wants to read then encourage it.

Can't understand why some teachers don't want children to know letters etc. DS1 had zero interest in learning to read but is now a voracious reader. DS2 asked what every street sign / car marking said and had amazing word recognition pre school but does not read for pleasure (except factual stuff like guide books to Paris ).

No cost involved.

must.... resist.....

My babies can't read, or punctuate, but they are following developments of the latest euro crisis with interest... or so I tell myself. I still haven't managed to teach them to laugh when they fart....

BSL is fab. All mine learned to sign.
They ignore you for ages as you flap away like a loon.
Then suddenly they start doing it back to you. Its great. Their first sign is usually 'biscuit'

"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., "

That is anedotes. There is plenty of hard evidence that UK children do better academically than their american counterparts. Ie. PISA test results. Plenty of studies like famous Clackmanshire study

www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/19/phonics-child-literacy

Show that phonics is the best way to teach the majority of children.If you teach your baby to read by whole word then you increase the risk of them developing dyslexia.

You can teach a four year old without learning difficulties to read in a space of six weeks using jolly phonics. Surely there are more productive things to do with a baby.

anyway, ignoring the obvious.

Mum taught me to read before school (aparently I REFUSED to sleep - EVER) - and I started school early. I have so far failed to win a Nobel prize or find a cure for cancer. Feck. Perhaps she should have just played some games with me instead?

I could read before I started school. Didn't stop me being dyslexic though and having comprehension and spelling ishoos.

Don't waste your money.

Conversely, I couldn't read 'til I was seven. This has not held me back in anyway.