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Teaching a (bright) kid reading at age two may be possible by my experience. At that age, with a lot of talking to grown-ups or listening to stories, kids can h
by choeger 5y ago
Teaching a (bright) kid reading at age two may be possible by my experience. At that age, with a lot of talking to grown-ups or listening to stories, kids can have a surprisingly immense vocabulary. But "teaching himself" is a little bit too much for my taste.
I have a child that started reading at 5. It was very motivated and learned the basics in a couple of weeks. It really gets much simpler once they understand the basics. But to get there, we had to invest a couple of hours (say 5-10h total) into fundamental pronunciation and character recognition. Someone has to be there for the child to tell them the difference between d and b, or l and I, or e and a, and so on.
Now here's the catch: For someone in the position of teaching a motivated, intelligent child, it may actually feel like the child is teaching itself. But that's presumably skewed by our own school/college/university experience of learning stuff we were actually not that interested in.
- flyinglizard 5y agoI bought my kids iPads and educational apps from Originator which taught them letters and numbers. Granted, papa lizard has given them very good genes but the result was them knowing the English alphabet and numbers past 100 at 2-3 and reading at 5. And English is not even our first language. Those iPads were the highest ROI of parenting so far. Please give your children high quality apps.
- aeontech 5y agoSorry for semi-off-topic reply, but would be very interested in any other recommendations you may have, have been looking for high quality resources too.
- flyinglizard 5y agoAnything by Originator (Endless ABC, Endless 123, Reader, etc). You can get them as a bundle. Teach Your Monster. BusyShapes although they have some issue lately and the game crashes for us. Sneaky Sasquatch as an adventure game. Both my kids got hooked on it and it has a ton of interactions and education value on what people do. Monument is something my five years old is hooked on. Atlas teaches them about the world. YT Kids with a careful selection of channels.