Early Childhood Reading Strategies

This is far from 'a wonderful strategy'. This is teaching the child to 'read' the pictures. When the picture books and reliable text changes to chapter books with authentic text, far too many children are lost. We MUST teach our children the code of print: PHONICS. This way children learn to read text without pictures and guessing. Teach children the consonants and vowels to sound out the full word and they can read anything. This demonstration is how you SHOULD NOT teach a child to read.

Mainefolk is exactly right. This child isn't learning to read. This child is learning to identify objects in pictures, a completely different skill.

I wonder if you have tried a completely different approach: synthetic phonics. Try Jolly Phonics or Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons or Blend Phonics, available free on the web. Search the web for info. Strategies used in this video draw the child's eyes AWAY from the words; they hide the fact that writing is code for speech; they encourage guessing. If a child can learn to sound out the first letter of a word, she can also be taught to sound out the middle, & on to the end.

What a wonderful strategies!!!
I need to take a course in this>.Lovely