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Summary: Run from this book.
Review: If you love your child,stay away from this book and it's methods. for the authors to ridicule phonics exposes more than ignorance.
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Summary: Phonics aren't for everyone!
Review: Many years ago, my parents taught me to read using Donan's whole-language method. As a result, I could read at an 8th-grade level before I started 1st grade. Since then, I've had perfect verbal scores on the PSAT, SAT, and GRE exams. I went to a top university and today I'm a highly-paid professional writer and editor. Best of all, I truly love to read -- and that's the gift I most hope to pass along to my own children.BUT ... as many educators will tell you, the whole-language approach is a dead end for lots of kids. Moral of the story: experiment. Don't rule out the whole-language approach OR phonics. See what works best for your child. The most important thing is that you take responsibility for teaching your children to enjoy reading. Don't expect the school system to do it for you.
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Summary: Amazing! It works, Its easy, and It's so worth it!
Review: My 2 1/2 year old son can read entire sentences, street signs, you name it, thanks to this book. And he loves reading. He begs to go to the library and is excited when I come home with new books. That said I will tell you that I was somewhat sceptical when I read the book, but figured it could do no harm. My fear was that I didn't wan't a "scary little genius" (a topic which they address in the book), and was a little worried about what he would do in school (another topic they address).
Instead I have a happy normal boy who loves to read, and who will (most likely) not be struggling in school. He has basically taught himself phonics and is sounding out words he doesn't know (or he asks me what the word is). He is a learning machine. I am now teaching my six month old. The program is not complicated, and takes as little as 15 minutes a day (if that). Parents, don't wait for our broken, misguided public school system to teach our children - step up to the plate! Our children can do this, and they will love it more than any tv show, video game, or toy you can ever give them. This book was written in the sixties and I can't believe that everyone isn't doing this. Also, we found some good videos called "Your baby can read" by the Infant Learning company (not associated with Glenn Doman) and they also work really well with this program. Both my son's enjoy these video's and I think they are well done. Thank You Glenn Doman!!!!!!! You have given the world a gift.
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Summary: Not for everybody
Review: My daughter hated this method. Sure, she memorized the "look" of the words early on, much to the amazement of everybody in our home. After a few sessions, however, she hated it. She refused to do them anymore. I decided to quit when an education and child development expert said that learning to read without context, such as this book advocates, is quite inappropriate for children. I did continue reading good children's books to my daughter. Now, she loves to read. She keeps several books under her pillow to look at first thing in the morning. She can sight-read a few words and is ahead of her class in terms of reading skills, although she isn't really reading yet. And you know what? It doesn't matter! What matters is that she loves reading and learning. Had I stuck it out with this book, the opposite effect might have occurred. My advice to parents: relax about your children's achievements. Just enjoy and cherish them, whatever level they are in.
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Summary: Amazing but true way to teach your child!
Review: My parents used this book to teach me and my sister and brothers to read when we were all very young. Now, after reading it, I am even more eager to begin a program with my children. I feel Glenn Doman's teaching method, used by my parents at home, contributed greatly to the intense love of learning I possess. It is as simple, logical and straightforward a method as I have ever seen.
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Summary: One game you just can¿t lose!
Review: This book describes my childhood, which is quite amazing considering that my parents did not know about it. It was not even translated to Hebrew (we are from Israel) at the time. I learned to read when I was three years old. I somehow got wind that printed words say things, and from that moment my parents had no rest from me, it was "what's written here?" around the clock, so they almost had no choise but teaching me to read. They bought me a 1st grade reading book, and the happiest memories of my childhood are sitting on their lap and reading from it. I will always be grateful to them that they did not listen to all the nay sayers and went on with it. After this succeeded with me they had to repeat it with my three younger brothers, so I would not be privileged. We were all accomplished readers by the age of five, and we all love reading to this day. One or three books a week is a regular rate for us, and we had a tremendous advantage through school and later in university, of which we went through mostly on merit scholarships. Today one of us is a PhD in sciences, another a high-rank army officer (with a degree in history), and the other two are software engineers. Years after my childhood I came across this book, and it was a revelation: Doman just knew everything about our early reading experience, as accurately as if he was there witnessing it! For example, the importance of using very large and red letters: the first words I learned were those typed in a large red font on greeting cards and ads. Another example: the fact that it is better and easier to start with whole words instead of single letters. Me and my brothers all learned to read many whole words (whole children books, in fact) before we learned the alphabet. This certainly was not because of any conscious decision of my parents. They did not know how they were supposed to go about it, so they just went along with whatever seemed to work best and produced the most fun (in fact, my mom was a school teacher at the time, so she was probably biased towards the alphabet-first method). I don't want to take sides in what seems to be a hot debate between experts, so all I can say is none of my brothers or me ever had any problems with phonics. If you ask me, many kids have problems with phonics, and kids that learn to read whole words early might also have problems with phonic, but most likely less than average. As Doman writes in the book, it does not matter much how you play this game; you almost can't lose. Don't heed the few reviews here saying that this program is not for every one, that you have to invest a lot of time, that you have to read all the other Doman's books and maybe also take the seminars, that you had to complement it with other methods like phonics, etc. Sure, all this can add even more to the effectiveness of you efforts, but just five minutes a day are enough to give your child a big advantage and a lot of fun. I mean, my parents did it with four out of four kids, and they did not have any program, and they did not even know the book exists. So if you care about your children education and future, forget college. Just teach them to read before they are four years old, and college will take care of itself.
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Summary: How to teach Your Baby to Read by Glenn Dorman
Review: This book is NOT about parenting an over-achieveer, nor does it give you instructions on how to "rob your infants of their childhood". Glenn Dorman began this research while helping brain damaged children. What he discovered was a key to the way in which the human brain LEARNS! How do we take in new information, how do we process it, what do we eventually DO with it?! I only wish that this understanding existed when I was growing up, it would have changed my own life dramatically. I know several families who attended the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia in the 1980's and they ALL have the most amazing, sensitive, creative, happy children. And those children were a privelege to know when they were growing up.
I cannot think of a single gift ANYONE could give to expectant parents that would make more of a contribution to their child's life, than to introduce them to this remarkable understanding of human learning.
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Summary: Seducing, but misguided
Review: This book seduces the parent into believing that he can (and should) teach his or her child to read at an unhealthy early age. The flashcards did nothing for my child and later I found that many children who learn to read this way, suffer from problems in the future with language. Plus, many children who excel in the way these people encourage don't fit in with other children (I've seen this firsthand). The authors only use their own studies, which is dangerously one-sided. The Successful Homeschool Handbook by Moore was a much better example of teaching kids "naturally" at home. Let the babies learn more important things, like the world around them, and you'll have a more well-rounded child.
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Summary: Very inspiring and practical! Motivates me to teach my baby!
Review: This is a book that truly inspires with a concrete goal in mind - to motivate and train the reader in helping a baby to read. Guess what - it works
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Summary: Don't believe the naysayers....
Review: This is an exciting and revolutionary book. It clearly explains that when a child is ready to learn spoken language she can also learn to read. This is because the same pathways in the brain are used. Actually a child learns to read more easily as a baby than she can as a 6 or 7 year old. A baby doesn't learn to understand speech and to speak by learning phomenes, the fundamental elements of speech. I baby learns to understand and speak words. A child initially learns to read by word recognition. Learning the alphabet slows the process for a baby. After they read they can learn the alphabet and phonetics, they will be valuable then. This book was first published in 1969. In a rational world it would have revolutionized education by now. Compare the invention of the transistor and the changes it has made in our world over the last 45 years. This book should have had a similar impact!
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