How Many Times Should Babies See Each Word?
When you begin teaching your baby to read with flash cards you will want to show them each word between 15 and 20 times. This is the equivalent of showing them a set of words 3 times per day for 5 days or 2 times a day for a week. I have found that the easiest way to remember to how many times I have shown my baby a flash card is to make tally marks on the back of the flash cards. I find this helpful because sometimes midway through a set of flash cards the baby loses interest and we need to stop. Making tally marks is an easy way to keep track of how many times we have viewed each word card.
Another way to keep track of when you should switch materials is to choose a day of the week as your starting day. Show your baby the materials all week and then switch them out for new ones on the same day each week. Do you have any tips for keeping track of material swapping? I would love to hear them.
I would bring out new materials every Sunday and we would look at them all week. We usually looked at learning materials 5-6 days a week. Each week I would put away the materials we had covered and bring out a new set. Sets would include baby flash cards, word and sentence books that I made, dot cards to teach math, and encyclopedic knowledge cards. We didn't always do everything but we always had a steady dose of new words. That is the part of the program that we were the most consistent with.
All programs can and should be adjusted to suit you and not the other way around. Teaching your baby to read should be fun.
Click her for more information about How to Teach Your Baby to Read with Flash Cards.
Monki See has a line of flash cards and DVDs to teach your baby to read. You can view them at www.monkisee.com.
Posted by Krista G. at 2/23/2010 12:18 PM 
Categories: How babies learn to read
Tags: teach your baby to read baby flash cards
Categories: How babies learn to read
Tags: teach your baby to read baby flash cards
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