Primary School Prep DIY Guide- Reading-Page 1.
INTRODUCTION
This guide is for parents with babies, toddlers and preschoolers. However, for those of you with babies I want to assure you that your baby can read before they are able to speak. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise, especially the Western experts who try to convince you otherwise. There is a very different mindset to education in Western nations. The experts do not believe in early education and will therefore come against those who promote early childhood education.
They will tell you things like, “Do not teach your child to read before school.” They will tell you that the best and only way to teach your children to read is through the phonics method. They will tell you that if you teach your baby or toddler to read early, it will harm them in the future and put them off wanting to read. All I can say is thatthis has not been the result with my children and other people’s children that we have seen. Quite the opposite; they have a higher chance of being stronger readers and having a strong desire to read when you teach them early.
In fact, research the literacy rates for school leavers in Western nations and ask yourself how good the advice of Western experts has been.
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Please remember that the AcSuccess Pre School goal of your child being able to read, write and do math at an advanced level for their age, is going to be more difficult to achieve if you do it yourself. Your child will be better able to achieve this goal with Primary School Prep Done 4U.
STEP 1 -SINGLE WORDS
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Flash cards
The first step to teaching your baby to read is to prepare flash cards with single words that you intend to show to your child.
They are very simple to make. You get an A4 Size white piece of paper and then fold it in half. Then cut the piece of paper in half so that you now have two pieces of half sized A4 paper. Each half piece of paper will contain a single word. You simply write the word with black marker pen in big, bold lower case letters. For example “apple” and “ orange”, just as in the picture below. When you show a proper noun (eg. name of a person) use upper case for the first letter of the name.
You will notice that the flash card that says “apple” has simply been handwritten. This will save you time and allow you to write more letters in a shorter amount of time. You do not need to make it elaborate. Just keep the handwriting neat. However, if you want to type and print it, you can. If you are typing it, we recommend that you use either Times New Roman or Calibri fonts with the size of around 200. The orientation when you print should be landscape.
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You will also notice how big the writing is. Please ensure that the writing is this large.
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You will also notice that the words are in lower case. Please ensure that you keep it this way.
You don’t have to make up every single card that you will ever show your child. However, a suggestion could be to make them up in batches of 20 words at a time. You can do more, but I suggest that you don’t do any less.