Reading from a very early age

Your child can be reading fluently as early as 3 years old, without ever having any formal lessons.

Have you ever wondered why young pre school children wake up early every morning? Have you noticed that as soon as they start school they want to sleep in? This is because as soon as formal structured learning takes place at school a child has by passed the age when he or she is best able to absorb the changing world around them.

From the ages of birth to 3 years of age a child is constantly examining and exploring their world. Everything is new to them and this is the best time to introduce them to reading and letters. If you catch a child before the rigid timetable of school, learning can be adapted to their schedule of interest. Most importantly, reading can be made into a game, then the chances are your child will succeed where so many others have struggled.

Reading is not hard… Reading is not difficult… Reading does not have to be taught by a qualified teacher. But the earlier it is introduced the more likely your child is to excel at it. Early reading skills open doors and provide many advantages that will be there for life.

Birth to Six Years – The Wonder Years!

Parents are given a wealth of advice about childhood nutrition and toilet training, but very little information is given to parents about how important their role is as their child’s first teacher.

By providing the right stimuli you can help your child discover and learn in a positive way about the world around them and help them develop their full potential. One of the greatest gifts you can give your child is the gift of your time. You can stimulate their developing intelligence.

The child in the video, is not a genius, but at the age of four she could sit down with a book, read fluently and entertain her friends. She enjoyed reading her own bedtime stories, and rarely had to study for a spelling test later on at school.

The reason this child had a head start is because her mother thought it would be fun to teach her to read. The mother found much to her amazement that with lots of encouragement and praise the child loved learning her letters and numbers much the same way as she liked learning the traditional toddler information about animals and their farmyard noises. She also found that by teaching her to recognise letters and numbers, many games could be played that would keep her entertained.

Many other parents, some of whom confess to being worried about reported declining school standards, have also made a conscious decision to become their child’s first and most important educator.