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to the parent with the ADD 5 yo - Yes, teach him to read. Parents who tell you not to teach your child to read are invariably parents who did not teach their children to read. My mother taught me to read at 4, and I taught my child at 3 and a half. It was a huge advantage for him. He loved reading; became a great reader; entered school with great confidence; was immune to any instructional deficiencies of his teachers or curriculum; developed writing skills early, also; has a great vocabulary; never got as hooked on video games as other children; and impressed his teachers from the beginning, which is helpful in school. If your child is ready to learn - and he sounds like he is - you should ABSOLUTELY teach him to read. Especially since he's ADD, anything you can do to give him a head start, is smart, responsible parenting. I prefer phonics to Teach Your Baby system, which seems to me to work better with babies than preschool kids. But you could also do both.
7 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]np: I don't think I could teach my kids incorrectly. I just think it's not important to teach them this. We read a ton together, my DH is a novelist so it's clear we think reading is important - but I'm not going to be drilling letter sounds or using flashcards like that kit mentioned in the previous post.
[ Reply | Options ]I might have been the OP of that post. I started one about the Teach your baby to read book - BUT I said it was not for a toddler. It was for a five/six year old.
[ Reply | Options ]np. I was one of the posters there arguing against using it, but only because I think it's a bad program for any age. If your ds is interested in learning to read I don't see why you shouldn't try to help him. But there are better programs. Explode the Code is good and used by a lot of schools. There are fun web sites, like Starfall, though that might be too young for some 5 or 6 yos. But check it out in case. There are computer programs, like Reader Rabbit and Leapster games. Talk to his teachers abd see what they say.
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NP -- my dd was reading pretty well at 3.5 too. she was always into letters and how to spell (which is amusing in retrospect, because at 7 years old, she is not what i would call a great speller; she is however an excellent writer). she could identify all the uppercase letters by just over a year -- it was pretty amazing. so we didn't really teach her to read -- she would ask tons of questions about letter sounds and what signs said and how to spell certain words. it kind of just all came together for her gradually. but she was very, very young when she started asking questions (she talked really young too), so the "learning" process took about a year. no instruction per se -- just interest and obvious aptitude.
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