I've read that introducing your children to more vocabulary is really valuable (a good starting point: http://literacy.rice.edu/thirty-million-word-gap). Given this, instead of aggressively teaching my next child how to read, I plan on spending more time reading works that I can understand to them. The author kept on mentioning 'decoding' rather than 'understanding', and it is possible that understanding at an early age is more important than decoding.
My first child was reading pretty early, but only developed good comprehension recently (age 11-12). Despite the fact that they could read rapidly and clearly out loud without pauses, they were missing the meaning of what they were reading. I don't know how to avoid this, but I'm hoping that simply introducing more words early on will help to alleviate this problem.
Raising children well is hard. There are lots of wrong ways, but also many right ways. I constantly worry that I'm setting up my child for years of therapy or failure.
My first child was reading pretty early, but only developed good comprehension recently (age 11-12). Despite the fact that they could read rapidly and clearly out loud without pauses, they were missing the meaning of what they were reading. I don't know how to avoid this, but I'm hoping that simply introducing more words early on will help to alleviate this problem.
Raising children well is hard. There are lots of wrong ways, but also many right ways. I constantly worry that I'm setting up my child for years of therapy or failure.