I am a total book worm: I could spend an eternity curled up on a sofa with a good book. I start my introductions with a question on what books my new friend likes to read. But it wasn’t always this way… As a child I learned to read with the “traditional alphabet” method. At three I already could put letters together to read whole words. It was a torture! By the time I’ll finish my “math operations” on letters (i.e. addition of every one of them), I’d forget the beginning of the word. At five I finally could use the same “alphabetic math” for the whole sentences. I still hated reading: my wonderful memory, that usually made my parents very happy, was failing me in every single passage – I would constantly forget the beginning of every sentence, by the time I struggled to the end of it. I am sure many of you can relate. Recently I saw my five year old niece fighting every single book, every single story, every single word… My niece knew an entire alphabet at twelve months and at five reading still translated for her into the painful stuttering and same memory loss, as I had myself as a child. So for my own child I decided to forgo the alphabet and to try “whole word” method offered by Glenn Doman in his How to Teach Your Baby To Read. I hope that this will help him to start his reading experience with enjoying the actual reading process, rather then hating every second he spent… Please share your own experiences below.
