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Our two sites are part of a perhaps over-ambitious endeavor, namely, an endeavor to increase intelligence -- to increase intelligence in general. How? By using the internet to provide parents all over the world with story books for babies -- stories so easy and so short that babies can teach themselves to read at the same age they are usually teaching themselves to talk. Scroll down to the links at the bottom of this page, and click through many sets of reading materials that have already been used to teach babies as young as two years of age.
After you teach your baby to read the first easy books available at the two sites, you may want to start her reading books that are slightly more challenging -- books that increase vocabulary more rapidly -- books like Single-Word Books. The full-size, complete versions of these books (plus their slide stories) are not free; however, they are so inexpensive that your baby can own many of them for her library.
They are inexpensive, that is, provided you act as your own publisher. You download the stories from the internet, and staple them down the left side into books yourself. Of course, they won't be professionally bound books, but they will be easy to read, entertaining, and in full color. Moreover, they (plus their slide stories) will increase vocabulary quite rapidly. Our free site WWW.RaiseIQ.org has taught many 2-year-olds to read its specially designed books on the first day!
The full-size version of the Single Word Book (Slow-Fast-Too Fast-Boom) is a head start to reading longer books.
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After you teach her to read the story (or after you think she has made a satisfactory attempt), you are going to reward her with her own Beginner Book for Babies -- a book for beginning readers specifically designed for babies. And a book for babies with her name on it is far more likely to be saved and re-read, is far more rewarding, than a sheet of paper.
The hyperlinks at the bottom of this page take you and your baby to several head starts to reading books. These head starts will teach her how to handle books. Teach her how to turn pages, for instance.
A Single-Word Book for Beginners is a very effective teaching tool. Each book is a head start to teaching as many as five or six new words. This head start is therefore a demanding tool. Your baby may have to return to it several times before she learns that many new words.
Additional instructions for teaching new words are given below. They can be summarized in six words: Turn each new word into a Picture Word.
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The Best Way to Make Picture Words:
Use the Objects themselves
Using the objects themselves is the best way to change words into picture words. (For other ways, click through the navigation buttons at WWW.IncreaseIQ.com. In particular, follow the hyperlink to Animated Picture Words.) You can apply all the techniques so that your first 20 or 30 Picture Words are appropriate for your own baby's interests and vocabulary.
Below are several words and mental bridges that parents have used to teach their babies to read. (A mental bridge is a bridge in your baby's mind; it ties the shape of the printed word to its meaning.) Maybe the following mental bridges will suggest ways you can teach the particular words that are of greatest current interest to your own baby.
"ball." Take two small balls and print the circle in the "b" and "a" to fit them. For the two l's and the upright on the b, cut three narrow strips of heavy paper or cardboard. You might make it more of a teaching game by batting the balls in place with the strips.
"cup." Get a cup (preferably plastic) with a rounded bottom that you can superimpose over the "c" and "u." Also turn it over and superimpose it over the circle of the "p." Some mothers use the cup to teach some informal printing. How? They print around the cup, using it as a guide, so the letters fit the cup exactly. Your baby should be watching, of course, so she sees how the shape of the printed word is similar to the shape of the cup. Also print "cup" on your cup.
"top." Get two bottle tops and superimpose them over the "o" and the circle in the "p." When you print the word, use one top as a guide so the letters fit the top. Your baby should be watching as you print, so she sees you using the top as a pattern. I would also print "top" on both tops with an indelible pen.
"nut." Use two peanuts to fit inside the "n" and "u."
"cap." Use a cap with a bill (a baseball cap, for example) for the "p," and two caps without bills for the "c" and "a."
"spoon." Print the "p" and "o"s to fit the bowl of a spoon with a round bowl. If your spoon has a rounded handle, you may also be able to fit it to the "s" and "n."
"can." Get three small cans (catfood cans or small tuna cans) so you can copy the animation of "can." To print the word, use one of the cans as a pattern and trace around it. Also tape the word "can" on each can. By now, printing -- with a broadstroke red felt marker -- should be a regular part of your lessons.
Beginner Books For Babies
At WWW.IncreaseIQ.com, be sure to go to the comics for each Animated Picture Word. Print them, cut them into their separate pages, and staple them into Beginner Books for Babies.
Single-Word Books for Babies, the Head Starts of these instructions,introduce from 5 to 10 new words, depending on how you choose to teach each one. That's quite a load if your baby is less than three years old, and it may take several days to teach them all.
You and your baby should follow the hyperlink to WWW.IncreaseIQ.com every day. Every day you can download another free book for her library. But if your baby cannot read yet, you should start at our free site, WWW.RaiseIQ.org. Our free site has taught 2-year-olds to read three words, and books based on the words, on the first day.
There is more on Animated Picture Words at: http://pages.prodigy.net/DrSee. And at http://pages.prodigy.net/babiescanread.
There is more on Single-Word Books for Babies at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/i-can-read. And at http://pages.prodigy.net/jumpstart2reading
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