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Should You Teach Your Toddler to Read?Although it may not be mainstream for many parents to teach their toddlers to read, many toddlers can and do learn to read well before entering school. There are several reasons for wanting to teach a toddler to read. Let's look at a few of them.
Your toddler loves books. If your toddler loves books you may consider teaching your toddler to read. Parents and caregivers that begin reading to their children when they are babies find that the child develops a love for reading and books. You may notice your toddler "reading" books on their own where they are making up words. This is a just one sign that your toddler would enjoy learning to read independently. Your toddler can identify letters and sounds. Many parents notice that their toddlers know many of the names of the letters and the sounds of the letters. The naturally ask themselves, "What next?" If your toddler loves books and can identify letters and sounds this may be a golden opportunity to introduce reading to your child. Your toddler loves to learn and ask questions. During the first years of life, children have this passion or this innate desire to learn everything they can as quickly as they can. They have fierce determination to walk and talk and be like those bigger people that are around them. This period of intellectual development in your toddler lends itself to learning much more than most parents would consider possible. From birth to age 5, the brain development that occurs is staggering. Your baby is born unable to walk, talk and barely move and within 2-3 years of life they become little people that can communicate and move around amazingly well. During the period of development it is easier to introduce reading, math, science or whatever your toddler has an interest in, than at any other time in their life. Yes, they can and will learn to read at age 5 or 6 when the go to school. But at that time they will learn according to a set of rules, which we call phonics. Parents that teach their toddlers to read notice that their children practically absorb the language effortlessly. They learn to read not according a set of rules. They learn to read in the same manner they learned to speak, through exposure to language. Parents that have successfully taught their toddlers to read have used the whole word method, also called sight-reading. Toddlers are shown a word and told what it says. After seeing the same words a repeated number of times, toddlers are able to read and identify those words. That might seem and sound pretty neat, but the magical part is that each word that your toddler learns to read teaches them about the rules of the language. After seeing and learning many words, they then use the rules that they learned on their own and begin to read words that they did not learn. This magical process works extremely well in children from birth through age 3. If you have a bright toddler that may enjoy learning to read, why not try today? Krista Guerrero is the founder of Intellectual Baby, LLC, a Florida based company that produces and distributes educational products for babies and toddlers. The product line includes, DVD's, flash cards, toys, books, and more. Its founder, Krista Guerrero, taught her son to read as a baby. Having taught reading for many years, she discovered that babies and toddlers are capable of learning to read easier and faster than school-aged children. Her proven techniques have been incorporated into the "Monki See Monki Do" system. To find out more about teaching babies and toddlers to read visit http://www.intellbaby.com. Article Source:
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