Learning To Read

[ailbhe]

I'm going to post the following review of several books and flashcard sets on Amazon:

"I bought these for my embryo and read them every morning and night but when she was born she was unable to speak, let alone read, and we had to use [randomly selected set in the same category] to teach her to read. Now she is two and loves to read what she calls her "baby books" but most of her reading is other MORE MATURE AND CHALLENGING texts YOU THICKOS."

It'll fit right in.

(We're leaning towards Peter and Jane, because they are small and cheap).

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

The family I grew up in had a big bag of alphabet letters written on the back of cardboard from a macaroni box. It never occurred to me it was a teaching thing at the time; I just thought it was a cool thing to play with. You could even turn them upside down and do the puzzle of the macaroni box.

[ailbhe]

Hee. My kids play with the Scrabble letters when we play Scrabble. We have two sets with very different styles of blocks, for ease of sharing.

I've nothing against teaching children to read, as early as they like. But there's something very specific about the tone of these reviews on Amazon which rubs me up the wrong way. As you might guess.