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Teaching Baby to Read

• Introduction to Teaching Your Baby to Read
• Why Teach Reading Early?
• Top 8 Myths of Early Reading
• Whole Language vs. Phonics
• The Flash Method
• The Multisensory Method
• The Native Reading Method
• Baby Reading Videos

Teaching Baby Math

• Introduction to Teaching Your Baby Math
• Why Teach Math Early?
• Top 8 Myths of Early Math
• Perceiving Quantity (Subitizing)
• The Flash Method
• Computer-Based Learning
• Fun Ways to Teach Math

Baby's Physical Development

• Introduction to Physical Education
• The Importance of Physical Education
• Crawling + Walking
• Swinging + Spinning
• Hanging + Brachiating
• Swimming

Teaching Other Subjects

• Baby Sign Language
• Speaking
• Baby Phonics
• Other Languages
• Teaching Several Languages
• The Multilingual Home

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Myth 1: Babies can't read!

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Not many people know that babies are capable of learning to read whole words by or around the age of one. That's why we have a Baby Reading Videos page on BrillBaby. You can also do a search on YouTube to see videos of babies under the age of two reading.

Of course, you may have seen the videos and be wondering how it has suddenly become possible to teach babies to read. You may be wondering what people had to subject these babies to in order to get them to read. In fact, it has always been possible to teach babies to read; it's just that the view of the establishment is that we should wait until age five or six to begin teaching reading.

To teach a baby to read, the only thing necessary is to regularly show him or her single words in a large font (preferably accompanied by illustrations of the words' meanings). For more on how to teach babies to read, go to the reading section of BrillBaby.

On to myth number 2...