Category: Education
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Does reading count as direct instruction?
I have a provocative question for the teachers and educational theorists out there: does reading count as direct instruction? I ask because, if it does, then there is surely nothing wrong with direct instruction, per se. I think it is plausible to call it instruction, anyway. The basic difference between reading a book, for example,…
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Review: “Your Baby Can Read”
Here is my review of the Your Baby Can Read videos, as posted on Amazon.com. Many people have found that Your Baby Can Read works, especially if it is used as part of a larger literacy program that includes plenty of reading to the child. I found that it helped quite a bit with my…
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Update about the boys
Here is a “brain dump” about what I’ve been doing with my little boys, ages 4.5 and 2 months. I will refer to them as H. (the older) and E. (the younger). H’s biggest accomplishment, recently, has been finally to learn to write not only all of his numbers, but all of his capital letters…
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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…