Month: December 2010
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Are child development experts getting it wrong?
I just came across this Psychology Today blog by Richard Gentry, author of Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write — from Baby to Age 7. He poses the question, “Are Commercial-Product Claims that Babies Can Read Overblown?” He goes on: Or are too many child development experts from prestigious…
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Could you teach your baby to read?
Is your reaction, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”? I claim that you can teach your baby, toddler, or preschooler to read–probably. What do you say to that? I was thinking about how my essay on baby reading hardly made a ripple on its first day out in the world,…
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Essay on Baby Reading
Larry Sanger, How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read PDF – DOC – HTML(the PDF is best) I started teaching my little boy to read beginning at 22 months, and by age four, he was decoding text (reading, in that sense) quite fluently at the sixth grade level, or above. [more…] Username Password…