Thread by @Dynastus

0-5 is prime brain development time.

Don't rely on the toxic school system.

If your teach your child to read, the world of self-motivated education opens to them.

How to teach your child under 5 to read in less than 30 mins a day 🧵 :

Do Voices:

Make your reading interesting!

Doing fun character voices, dramatic pauses, acting out moment..

Adds a lot of flair & excitement to story time.

It keeps any story interesting and easier to follow, increasing your child's interest in reading.

Drop the Word Filter:

Contextual exposure to big-kid words will accelerate language development.

You'll likely need to slow down and explain larger words when needed.

By over time their vocabulary will explode.

And they will blow you away with their plethora of synonyms.

Front Facing Shelf:

Analog families accumulate A LOT of books.

Get a 'kids bookshelf' that displays covers of books.

Rotate the books every few days. That way there's new stuff cycling, maintaining interest..

Making books the preferred quiet-time entertainment.

Talk Like The Adults They Will Become:

Sometimes I'll overhear well-meaning parents talk to their children like they're idiots.

IMO this is a byproduct of outsourced parenting.

It's belittling, isolating, and impairs language development. Don't do it.

Ask What Letter Things Start With:

Ask you child them what letter it starts with when they're looking at thigns.

Playing in a box? "What letter does b-box start with?"

This helps just about anything contribute tot heir reading and phonetic experience.

Book Series of Increasing Complexity:

A set of books that teach key words that get gradually more difficult as they progress will aid you a lot.

The 36 book box set of key word books from Ladybird is a classic (get the old version).

Read BIG Books:

Long books, with big words, & running narratives.

These expose children to larger words

The Hobbit+LOTR are good ones
The Secret Garden
Storybook Bible

They might not get it 100% on the first pass, but each time you go through they'll understand more.

Minimal Screen Time:

Screens are bad. You already know this.

They destroy focus & inhibit brain development + other negative impacts.

NO SCREEN TIME for kids under 2. None.

@ 2-12 minimize it as much as possible. (course in Bio to help you with this.)

Phonetic Adoption Games:

Play or create games that encourage your child to learn about sounding words/letters out.

eg. I spy can be adapted to "I Spy something beginning with the sound "T""

This will go a long way to encouraging association of letters to sounds.

Read Daily:

Reading anything at all to your child, daily, is a necessity.

Start as young as possible & maintain the habit.

You may find your child will start reading on their own, purely out of habit.

To Summarize:

• Do Voices
• Drop the Word Filter
• Front Facing Shelf
• Talk Like The Adults They Will Become
• Ask What Letter Things Start With
• Book Series of Increasing Complexity
• Read BIG Books
• Minimal Screen Time
• Phonetic Adoption Games
• Read Daily

For the record my daughter was reading by age 4, and at age 5 is reading books like Little House in The Big woods, Chronicles of Narnia, Box Car Children & more.

This not only has her exploring new worlds & ideas, but asking deeper questions too.

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@dynastus