How to Teach a Baby to Read?

I think you are putting too much on your baby.. He's already going to know three languages.. learning to read them all may be hard because of all the differences so why put all that pressure on a baby.. The best way to teach your child to read is to read to him daily.. he's responding to signing too so that's a lot.. just read to him.

Chere Geranska,

I highly recommend you read this book: The read aloud handbook by Jim Trelease (http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/)

He explains how children learn to read but more importantly how they learn to love to read. Children love to please parents so they can learn to respond to flash cards and other exercises and they loose interest if the parent is not there to give them feedback.

They are not truly ready to read until well after age 5. Take your time and read this book. It also comes with a list by age of recommended books which is also in his website.

I grew up with 3 languages (spanish, french and english) and have loved reading since I was a little girl. This helped me with spelling and grammar. I was never pressured to learn to read. My mom was a montessori teacher for 20+ years and she encouraged us to explore our interests when she saw that we were ready. If you start too soon, you may end up with the opposite result.

Bonne chance,
A.

Hi G.,
Babies don't need to read. They need to explore their physical environment and figure out how the physical world works, they need to play and interact with other people to learn how people work. The only reading they need is when you read to him for fun, closeness, and the music of language. Kids who read early do not have an advantage over children who read later, once they are all reading, at about age 6-7. We confuse verbal ability with intelligence. There are many intelligences. The kid who doesn't read until 7, maybe a math whiz or a physical genius. Let you child explore many things and his gifts will present themselves. Most of all, have fun.

I persoally wouldn't do it. I have read some research that indicates that children taught to read early actually read less than those that start later (like at 6 or 7). Unless they initiate the activity - really initiate it themselves. Also, age at which you learn reading has nothing to do with intelligence - any normal person can learn to read at anytime - it all depends on whether it is important to them to read.