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Since babies
are at their most receptive phase of their lives at
their earliest age, teaching a baby
to read is nowhere as difficult as most parents
tend to imagine it to be. Research has proved that
babies aged between four months to three years learn
faster than children aged four years or more. There
are also many more significant benefits to learn reading
earlier than later.
Some of
the benefits of learning to read early follow.
- Quick and easy
learning: At babyhood, the learning rate is
the fastest in a human being. This is the phase
of life when one can most easily pick up languages
and patterns. The capability sharply decreases once
the baby reaches an age of four or five years. It
makes sense to best use this intellectually productive
phase of the baby's life.
- Ease and enjoyment
at school: Once a baby learns how to read, one
of the biggest obstacles in his/her path of learning
vanishes. While most of the children struggle to
learn reading at an early school age, your child
would enjoy the studies since he/she would not be
hindered by his/her capability to read. It is often
seen that people who learn to read as a baby tend
to obtain better grades than others who learn to
read as a child. Your child will look forward to
go to school since he/she would find both the study
and the play part of the school to be interesting,
unlike many other children who only find playing
to be interesting and study part boring.
- Enhanced self-confidence
and self-esteem: As the child, who had learned
to read early as a tender baby, grows up, he/she
becomes more successful compared to other children
who had learned to read as more developed children.
The success boosts the self-confidence and the self-esteem
of the person. It gives a sense of achievement and
that further carries forward to more achievements.
- Better-nurtured
and better-developed minds: Eventually, when
such babies grow up, they tend to have better mental
development due to better intellectual nurturing
of their minds. This development is also boosted
by the added fact that the person keeps experiencing
better self-confidence during the entire process
of growing up.
The process
of teaching your baby to read is neither time consuming,
nor expensive. It requires an educated and disciplined
approach. You need to have a session with your baby
every day at a fixed time. That way, your baby would
fall into the habit of looking forward to the session
at the right time each day. If you can make the sessions
interesting, fun and attractive for the baby, you
shall find your baby urging you for the session every
day after a few days.
There are
a number of ways that you could make the learning
session interesting for the baby. One way to start
to teach your baby to read is to use colorful cards
at the earlier stages of the process. Make sure that
the baby has a room dedicated for the session. The
room must not contain any other distraction, so that
the entire focus of the baby remains on the reading.
Now, once you show the colors on the cards and show
objects in the room that would have the same color,
the baby would start to learn resemblance. He/she
would point fingers to the right color after some
practice. You would want to move to the next step
after this.
The baby
would now be presented with alphabets on cards, blocks
or magnetic cubes. You could arrange for a word making
game in which you arrange the alphabets to form words,
and then match these words with objects that the baby
gets to see on a regular basis. You could also use
a chalk-and-slate board to exchange messages with
the baby.
'How
to teach your baby to read" videos are also
available with state-of-the-art innovations incorporated.
The positive effects of such videos have been great.
On an average, babies starting to watch such videos
between five to seven months of age have shown capability
to read alphabets by the time they are approximately
one year old. By the age of a year and half, they
would be able to read whole words. In another six
months, they would read whole sentences and comprehend.
Such remarkable achievements by two-year babies are
not seen every day due to unfortunate ignorance of
parents to the fact that babies can be taught early.
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