Comments on: Combination of Doman and Phonics

By: Alenka

Alenka — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:46:24 +0000

Yes, if you combine picture and a word on the same page the picture will probably look more attractive. I am still using pictures, but after I show the word: try just the words, if it doesn’t work, you can add the picture on the back and quickly show it to your kid after you showed the word.

Paper size: I tried many sizes. For the baby-stage of our learning process (pretty much up to a year), I was printing out large long 6×22 cards. I found it very inconvenient. For my first kid, I just used 11×14 legal paper. It was quite easy to use. Eventually, printing out on regular paper 8 1/2 x 11 turned out the easiest for me. I just used really large fonts. You can see from the cards that I created here on the size – after we are done with it I usually bind them into books and occasionally we used to return to them and just “reread” them for fun.

Now I am just showing everything on the computer – it is easier for me and reusing A.P.P. cards. We go through some “books” that I printed out earlier, but we have a lot less time for it with my second one.

I also know many moms who had a lot of success with large index cards, 5×7. So I’d say – pick the size that is easier for you to work with!

By: nana

nana — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:14:10 +0000

thanks for the documents uploaded. May i know you printed them on what size of paper? thanks!

i heard from somewhere before, if combine picture and word together in the same card, this will distract the child by only looking at the picture. what is your view on this? thanks

By: Alenka

Alenka — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:53:47 +0000

We LOVE Leapfrog letter and word factories. And math too. A while ago, my son was really fascinated from combining at-fat-hat type of words. However, for some reason, just from watching those dvds it didn’t go further for us. Whole words by Doman and A.P.P. cards worked the best for us. And we started Level 1 books right after we were done with my ppts and some (far from all of them!) sets of A.P.P. books. Wow, then he really took off. Night, light, sight; was, were; could; would; all; fall; for; time- all of these and similar looking words he picked up just from encountering them in books that HE was reading!

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:36:54 +0000

Thanks! Alenka! My daughter is 2 (born end of august 08). I did the whole words (your baby can read set and glen doman’s stuff) first. So Lana (my daughter) could read “elephant” or “mommy” etc. without realizing that A says Ahhh..etc… I just recently got the leap frog letter factory dvd. It’s AWESOME!! The only draw back is that it mostly focuses on capital letters. I’ve started showing her words via the phonics method now (including APP’s card set) and she seems to understanding the lower case letters fairly well. SHe learned all her short letter sounds by watching the leap frog dvd 1-2 x a day for 2-4 weeks.

By: Alenka

Alenka — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:59:30 +0000

Sounding out a word – is a great achievement! How old is she?

I never really taught individual letters. My kids figured out all the sounds from whole words that I was showing. If I encouter a single letter, I would occasionally point to it and say its name, but not systematically.

I write everything in lowercase letters except for personal names. Lowercase letters are the most common in the texts that we read, I find them the most important.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:16:58 +0000

WHen teaching your young child to read, do you focus on the capital letters or lower case letters or both? My daughter knows all capital letter sounds but not lower case letters. She can sound out words if I write them in all capital letters (CAT). But she doesn’t know them in lowercase. Should I start teaching lower case right away or wait until shes mastered basic reading skills first in all capital letters?

By: Bruce Deitrick Price

Bruce Deitrick Price — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:29:40 +0000

To: Albania,

Please, before you consider any method but phonics, read “42: Reading Resources” (you can Google it).

By: Alenka

Alenka — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:04:16 +0000

I am very sorry to hear about your 8 year old’s developmental delays!!! That must be very hard…

Doman originally developed his program for kids with brain damage. Over the years, they’ve noticed that kids with brain damage were outperforming regular children! That’s when they applied this knowledge to all children’s development. Even as of now, their primary focus is still working with parents who have kids with various disabilities. I am not sure, what disabilities, and if their programs apply for the developmental delays. I would strongly suggest to contact them at their official website and see for yourself: Institute of Human Achievement. I’ve noticed that they replied to all the inquires fairly well – I’ve had a good impression on their responsiveness: they answered all the questions that I was emailing to them, and even gave me a call for further discussion of their reading program details.

By: Albania D.

Albania D. — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:16:43 +0000

Can this method be used for a child who is 8 years old and developmentally delayed? I have just begun to home school him. He was not learning to read in school even though he was in a full time resource room. I need to find an effective method for him.