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After you teach your baby to read the first dozen or so free books at "Teach Your Baby to Read: Summary" and "Teach Your Baby to Read #1," you may want to start her reading books that are somewhat more challenging and that will increase her vocabulary more rapidly.
One set of more challenging books is "Single-Word Books for Babies" (as illustrated by the quarter-size Slide Story above). Although full-size versions of "Single-Word Books for Babies" (together with their full-size Slide Stories) are not free, they are inexpensive enough that your baby can own many of them for her library. To order them, scroll down and follow the hyperlink to WWW.Increase IQ.com, the .com site that is a sister to our free site at WWW.Raise IQ.org. Many 2-year-olds have learned to read our scientifically-designed books on the first day at WWW.Raise IQ.org!
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CHANGING WORDS INTO PICTURE WORDS:
USE PICTURES TO CHANGE WORDS INTO PICTURE WORDS
For many of your baby's first words, you can cut out pictures and use them instead of the actual objects. Of course, pictures will seldom be as effective as real objects, but sometimes effectiveness must be sacrificed for convenience and ease.
"clock." Draw (or cut out) three clock faces and trace around them to print "clock" to fit them. Have your baby watch so she sees the relation between the faces and the "c," "o," and "c." Then help your baby superimpose the cut-out clock faces over the "c," "o," and "c."
"eye." Easiest is to cut out two round, black eyeballs and have your baby place them on the two "e"s. Print your "e"s so that the part that will be the eyes are somewhat fatter than usual.
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Few words can be made as easy to learn as the Toy Word, "go," but hundreds of word-shapes, to some extent at least, can be made into picture words that suggest their meanings directly. I've known parents who have drawn pictures for "moon, cat, hat," and "car," to mention a few.
FREE BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS AND OTHER READING MATERIALS
Scroll down to the hyperlinks below for free books and other reading materials for your baby. In particular, follow the links to our main sites: "Teach Your Baby to Read: Summary" and "Teach Your Baby to Read #1."
For more on Single-Word Books for Babies, go to:
http://pages.prodigy.net/babybooks2read. And to: http://pages.prodigy.net/jumpstart2reading.
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