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Never Too Young To Read ©
You can do so much more than simply read to your child. Your child is at the best age to teach when they are going through that "word explosion" stage and you say to yourself "can he (or she) ever talk now!" If they are capable of memorizing so many new words, then they should be capable of learning letter and phonogram sounds just as easily. The only reason they don't is because nobody is taking the time to show them consistently. How many times did you tell your child to use a spoon before they recognize
We always start by teaching them the names of the letters. Why? Naming the letters is instrumental for spelling...not really reading if you think about it. Introduced this way it is a two step process 1) identify name and 2) identify sound. If you start by teaching the letter sounds, phonograms (letter combinations with unique sounds) and some high frequency whole words, these sounds will be the first thing to pop-up in their heads for the process of word decoding. In this way, you have simplified the proce
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