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| Native Reading: How to Teach Your Child to Read, Easily and Naturally, Before the Age of Three | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy D. Kailing
Publisher: CreateSpace
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 94903
Language: English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1434848817
EAN: 9781434848819
ASIN: 1434848817
Publication Date: March 5, 2008
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Product Description
Give your child the gift of early, effortless, and lifelong literacy. Teaching your child to be a native reader is a joyful, creative and social experience. The techniques of native reading structure just a small portion of your child's natural play, but with this structure, they do something wonderful: the fundamental similarity of written and spoken language becomes apparent, even obvious, to a child. Reading is transformed into a spontaneous skill that children acquire effortlessly, as toddlers, in the course of their play. The benefits go far beyond simply reading early. When a child learns to read natively, deep neural connections are made between oral language and the written word. Reading is transformed into a less abstract and more natural skill. It becomes natively known, just as the ability to talk is known natively. A native reader has a mother tongue not only in the spoken language, but also, deeply, in the written language.
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Great book January 8, 2009
I am looking for materials to help me facilitate my young babies acquisition of language. My older children have such trouble with reading comprehension that I want to do all I can for my 2 babies (and any more that we may be blessed with). The theories put forth in this book appear well researched and thought out. For those who would be worried about "pushing" your baby, that is not the case with this "method." I believe from my experience in a Montessori day care that this is a great way of "preparing the environment." You expose your child to letters and words from a young age. In this way children will grow up understanding that written language is a natural part of life. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who would like to see their child(ren) have a head start.
Destined to be a classic October 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic! I just wish it had been available when my daughter was young enough to reap the benefits of the methods --i.e age 2 or 3 . Nevertheless, I have begun using it with my 4 year old and it has sped up the learning to read process immensely. There is nothing coaxing about the process: rather it is simply a natural extension of the innate genius of that age. I'm sure others have stumbled upon these ideas in other ways, but as far as I can tell, Tim's book is the first to bring it all together in one very well organized, readable package. Highly Recommended. - Alexis Harte
No other purchases necessary! August 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a new-ish parent, I've been scanning the "teach your baby to read" literature and websites, and encountered the debates-- and they can get pretty bitter!-- between the whole word and phonics camps. Kailing's book shows how both sides have a point. He uses the term "native reading" to refer to the fact that we don't really "teach" kids to speak their native language, they just soak it up, so if you provide a home environment with enough correlations (Kailing uses this term a lot!) between the written and spoken forms of language, kids can gain a native understanding of the written language as well. It makes loads of sense to me, and after reading this book I felt sorry for all those parents who gave testimonials aftering having used flash cards and videos and followed some strict schedules to teach their toddlers to read. Who has time/patience/money for that? Kailing's book gives enough scientific details to impress this biologist-turned-mom, but it's not overwhelming, in fact, a lot of that stuff is tucked into a notes section at the back that's easy to save for later. Kailing really makes a strong case for what geniuses all children are with language between the ages of one and three, and also usefully points out that for much of human history, most people were illiterate, so why should we think our current methods for teaching reading are all that ideal? I encourage new parents to dispense with videos and flash cards, buy this book, and start having fun helping their babies learn to read.
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