Smart Baby Reading at 12 Months (Part 2)

http://brillbaby.com | This video was taken when Felicity was 12 and a half months old.

Here's baby Felicity reading again, this time mainly reading the words out loud, like Daddy, Mommy, baby, ball, knee, cup, bubble, dog and some Chinese words.

No one had to force her (we do not believe in forcing!), and sometimes you can't drag her away from her books.

Note: When this video was taken, she did not know phonics, in that she either recognizes the word, or she doesn't. If your definition of "reading" means she must know phonics, then she doesn't know how to read. But then, that would also mean that people 'reading' languages such as Chinese do not know how to read either, because you either recognize the Chinese character(s) or you don't.

Having said that, we've found that the more a child is exposed to words (even if they are merely memorizing the words at first), they figure out the phonics rules for themselves intuitively and very quickly.

To learn more about teaching your baby to read, please visit http://www.brillbaby.com . In particular, check out the Little Reader reading software which was also used to help Felicity learn to read.

Also see the compilation of all her reading videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MeboaOWEGw

Also see another baby (Nim) read over 40 words at 16 months here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRdQCsPvxco

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[zoomafo2]

Its unfair to say that your baby can read. She see's an image, then associates it with a sound... its the same thing as a baby seeing someone's face and saying "mama"... except one involves forcing your child to sit down and form image-sound associations of a limited set, and the other is a natural occurrence. And sure, the baby may "enjoy" learning, but it's clear that you baby is bored and wants to explore something new by the fact that your child is literally trying to get up and leave.

[brillbaby]

@zoomafo2 - Yep, you're absolutely right. That's called whole word reading or sight reading. Babies start out reading that way and start to figure out the phonics code themselves intuitively (like they figure out rules of grammar intuitively out of sheer exposure to the language). See BrillBaby site for "whole word vs phonics". Re bored, yep, babies get bored when you test them, hence we only did it for these videos. How else would people believe it otherwise? :)

[AWeerheim]

I love how she repeats 'mommy' like she's thinking about her mom in that moment. That means she really associates the images/words with the sounds but also with the meaning!

[jjclassjj]

you have some great stuff here

[ChicaSadica696]

How do you teach her?I want to do that with my baby girl 12 month old

[barbiet0]

What a cutie!!! and so smart

[optico001]

Each baby is difference between another one, how to know if someone baby can learn things like yours?

[TammyIzHawt]

If I was smarter than the average 26 yr old. I'd boast and brag and show off my skills as well.. Maybe not doing so verbally, but I'd definitely put my smarts to work.

[TammyIzHawt]

Some of you are so damn ignorant. Whether she is memorizing images or actually knows how to read, EDUCATION IS PARAMOUNT and ultimately starts in the home. Instead of playtime all day, they actually put thought into her future. This is absolutely amazing. If your parents took time out to teach you something, you wouldn't analyze and critique this video as being a crop that will later lead to her arrogance. That makes absolutely no sense. Intelligence alone should make one cocky.

[jennagee5]

@tbtitants21 wtf, get over yourself they're just recording what seems to be a good memory. That's all. How is she going to be cocky? If she's smart enough to remember all this, I'm pretty sure she'll be raised to not be that way. Clearly your on another level of stupidity.

[welcome8784]

I started to talk at 1 and a half

[Maxamo86]

She is beautiful

[tedwinkent]

Awww... That's cute.