Hi all
Recently I came to know about the reading schedule and 200 words that glenn doman suggested through forum threads. I didn’t get the book over here, so can anyone who read the book be kind enough to post whether doman has suggested any schedule for toddlers. Has he suggested which words we should include in these 200 words? Should I go through all the 200 words or start with couplets in between? When should I start phrases and short sentences? I have been reading to him on a daily basis. How should I go with my active toddler? 
Plz help…
Dear Anjie,
I would recommend that you read How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition by Mr. Glenn Doman. The details are in the book.
There is a brief explanation here:
http://www.childandme.com/ideas/teach-your-child/read/
You begin with 200 words that are most familiar to the child, and then follow the schedule, and then form couplets with the 200 words using 2 sets of 5 for ~40 days (from Judy Mendes schedule) and then you use phrases and sentences, etc.
Also read the following thread and then download Judy Mendes schedule from reply #5:
http://forum.brillkids.com/introduce-yourself/hello-everyone-from-judy-mendes/
Where are you located? There are IAHP authorized publishers in Singapore, and in India, as well as in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
I hope that helps.
- Ayesha
Hi…
Thank you Ayesha and Joha from the bottom of my heart.
Those links really helped me and I will soon start with a schedule. You guys are great!!! Lots of karma to you…
Hi Anjie
I’ve made a document with the word lists I could find in How To Teach Your Baby To Read - please see attached.
It’s not 200 words, but 112 (or 115, if you count mommy, daddy and the child’s name).
Maybe it said 200 because there are also examples of couplets, phrases and sentences in the book. They are just examples though - the main thing is to use the vocabulary you already have to build couplets, phrases and sentences. Sometimes you will need to add words like “is” and “the.”
These words are all taken from the chapter How to Teach Your Baby to Read (chapter title = book title).
Hope that helps!
Maddy
Thank you Maddy for sharing!
I actually started all over again and decided to go by the list of words that are listed in the book. I’m reading a translation of the book in Spanish and sometimes with translations I’m affraid the interpretor is not translating propertly what the author meant and this may be the case. I created the flash cards in English and Spanish for the first 20 words and I was looking at your document and the list that I was going by and some of the words are different. So I think I need to go back and change my list :rolleyes:
I have a question though: Based on what I was reading you aren’t really flashing the cards but just showing them to your baby and pointing at whatever object or part you are talking about. Is this how you are doing it? How many words do you show to your baby in a day? :unsure:
Since the translation may not be the best (based on what I just found out with the list :nowink: ), I just want to make sure I’m doing it right.
Thanks! 
hi maddi as for the translation i cant help u may be someone else would but as for the number of times for shoing it to ur baby; i read in Glen Domane book it should be five times a day if its flash cards and i think it goes the same when you use LR .
I see your child is 2 years and 4 months old - is that the age of the toddler you are trying to teach? Doman suggests doing something a bit different with children of that age - he says you should move very rapidly from single words to sentences and books at this age and that you should also starve the child a bit - give slightly fewer words than originally suggested each day so that your child will want more. The other important thing at this age is to give the child the words he chooses himself - ask him what words he’d like to see written down and write the ones he chooses. My sister’s child wanted all the people she knew at this age so she learnt to read mainly names, but your child might be more interested in types of dinosaurs or vehicles or anything - go with what he wants! Usually by this age the children are getting to old to be excited by words like “head” and “nose” etc which are in the original list.
I agree with Tanikit, with a toddler you should use words that are exciting to him. Also, when I was at the Institute Janet Doman said that with toddlers often less is more, she meant that too many words may bore them since they want to move all the time and it’s hard for them to concentrate. You want to keep the seesions short and interesting and most of all if you see toye child loosing interest stop, even if you only showed two words during the session.
Yes, agreed - the most important thing is to choose words that interest your child! However, Anjie wanted the list of words in the book, so that’s what that is.
In answer to your questions, Joha…
Based on what I was reading you aren't really flashing the cards but just showing them to your baby and pointing at whatever object or part you are talking about. Is this how you are doing it? How many words do you show to your baby in a day?
I think Doman wants you to do both - some flashing, and some slower learning, while you teach meanings. Of course, you won’t be able to find something to point to for some words, in which case you’ll just be flashing (unless you find a picture, but then you may as well be using Little Reader!).
For me personally, I have only used LR and YBCR. Right now, just LR (because Naimah finished learning the YBCR words a while ago). We do 20-50 words a day (20-30 per session).
Maddy,
Thank you so much for your answer! I’m definetly going to get a copy of the book in English. For now your list will definetly save me so I can coerrct the list I have.
You said you use LR. For example when you were teaching parts of the body, did you use a file in LR at that was it? My only thing with just flashing the words is that you really don’t have time to point at something because then the baby gets distracted. Maybe I’ll do both as you said flashing and showing. OMG! My head just keeps going in circles :wacko:
Last questions, for your sessions, are you following Doman’s methof (retiring words) or do you do categories? Are you teaching her another language? If you do, how do you divide the sessions?
I’m sorry for asking you so many questions 
I just haven’t been able to come up with a plan…
hi
I am also about to teach my baby. i will probably start with the flashcards. Thanks for sharing the material. Have any of you teaching to read to languages if yes. how did you do it?
Thanks
Alma
Hi Joha
when you were teaching parts of the body, did you use a file in LR at that was it?
I used the BrillKids category plus 4 body parts categories by forum members (2 of the 4 were created by our moderator nhockaday). I made one playlist out of all the categories. I edited the categories so that I wouldn’t get any repeated words.
for your sessions, are you following Doman's methof (retiring words) or do you do categories?
I don’t retire words; I just play different categories on different days.
Are you teaching her another language? If you do, how do you divide the sessions?
I gave Naimah early exposure to foreign languages - Russian (on Tweedlewink), and Spanish and Mandarin (on Little Reader). Russian and Spanish are language I studied to a high level. Mandarin because she will definitely be learning it in the future.
I wanted to “get her ear in” - to let her brain be used to the phonemes of those languages. But now that Nim is older, we just do English (I stopped Tweedlewink to cut down on TV watching). Because the other languages don’t appear in her everyday life, it doesn’t seem relevant to continue them for now.
If I knew Mandarin, I would probably have kept up that one - but I know Nim will be hearing it three times a week from September anyway (when she starts nursery school).
Maddy
Maddy,
Thank you so much for such detail answers It is encouraging to know you do categories and not the word retiring. That is so much easier!
I hadn’t thought about stopping the foreing language exposure at certain point. We live in the States and I’m a Spanish native speaker, so for sure she would speak English and Spanish. I’m showing her the Little Pim Mandarin for the “ear exposure”, but do not have a plan B to go with after we are done with the videos. I would like to expose her to German too, but haven’t decided in any materials. Don’t you think if she doesn’t keep listening to the other languages she is going to forget what she had learnt?
I wanted to get the Tweedlewink for the right brain technique, but some of the reviews on the quality of the DVD’s have not been very good. So I’m not sure about that quite yet…
One more question, not realted to this, but would like to know. If I’m not mistaken you used the crawling track. We are behind with this, but we are having one built right now. My daughter is 5 and a half moths old and I’m not sue if she is too old to start using it. Do you have any opinion on this?
Thanks again!
Anyways! Thank you so much for
My daughter is 2 yrs old too, so this is a very interesting thread. I just read the original How To Teach Your Baby To Read. I noticed that Ayesha specifically recommended the 40th Anniversary Edition. Is there a difference? I just started YBCR 7 weeks ago but I’ve been melding some of Doman techniques into the mix too - retiring some of the words, making it joyful, etc. YBCR is great in terms of ready-made professional materials, but weak on explaining the little worrisome details of teaching process. If I only read the original book, am I missing anything important? My library only had the older version.
Thanks, Lori
Hi Joha
Don't you think if she doesn't keep listening to the other languages she is going to forget what she had learnt?
Yes and no. I believe in the importance of the early exposure when the brain is learning to pick out certain sounds (and ignore others). Of course, it would be better to continue - but once Naimah started talking, I decided four languages was enough. In our case they are English, Cantonese, Tagalog (Filipino) and Mandarin. Nim has been hearing Cantonese and Tagalog on a regular basis since birth (but she speaks far, far more English than anything else). She is going to her first Mandarin playgroup today, and will be learning Cantonese and Mandarin properly starting from September.
So yes, in an ideal world I wouldn’t have stopped the Spanish and Russian - but I don’t want to overload Nim. I also wanted to choose the languages that are most relevant to her everyday life (we live in China; our live-in helper is a native Tagalog speaker).
I wanted to get the Tweedlewink for the right brain technique, but some of the reviews on the quality of the DVD's have not been very good.
I agree, I’m afraid - main reason I didn’t keep it up.
My daughter is 5 and a half moths old and I'm not sue if she is too old to start using it.
Actually I mainly used the crawling track after the age of 6 months! We did tummy time before that (which Nim mostly hated ;)). I put the crawling track on an incline from around 6 months, because she was showing no signs of crawling. As it was, she started cross-pattern crawling as late as 11 months! (Though she army crawled for a few months before that.)
I was worried Nim would do next to no cross-pattern crawling because she was cruising from soon after her first birthday. But she actually ended up doing quite a lot of crawling. She walked holding on to someone’s finger for a few months before she began walking unaided at 16 months. During those months if she wanted to get somewhere and no person or furniture was nearby, she would crawl there (and then pull up to standing). It was late in the game, but I finally got to see the perfect cross-pattern crawl I had longed for!
[Hang on, wasn’t this supposed to be about reading?? Oops…]
Hi Lori
I know that in the first edition of Doman’s book, he actually recommended to start teaching your baby to read from age 18 months (!). I don’t suppose you have a book that old though. I don’t know about the 40th anniversary edition specifically.
Can anyone else help?
Hi!
I taught my son how to read using the first edition almost 23 years ago. I recently started teaching his daughter and got the new book. It has a LOT more good suggestions and instructions. I feel both the math and reading updated editions are much better.
They also just came out with the DVD’s, which I just ordered for my daughter in law to help her. I think it can be SO intimidating for the first time. I was a perfectionist and thought my son was crazy to want to read so early. I was the one that was wrong. I wish I had started earlier with him because he was crying by the time I finally gave into him. He learned so fast that he was reading on a 6th grade level by 4.
Start with whatever book you have and whatever materials you can get your hands on. Progress VERY FAST and most of all: HAVE FUN!
For those with little money, like i was as a single parent with my son, I would recommend:
-Get the books from the library
-Take notes and make as many instruction cards for yourself as you can
-Start with words or things the child is interested in
-Make homemade books for them to read as soon as they learn the first 10-20 words. (I went faster with my son)
-Buy the book that you can afford: Teach Your Baby to Read, then Teach Your Baby Math.
After that, buy whatever you have money for. When grandparents are supportive, have them give you the books and have them read them as well.
The only books I had for the first several months were the first two. It was much later that I got the others. And I started with library books like you did.
I wish you the greatest fun with your child:-)
hI psalm34one,
Thanks for your suggestions knowing that another mom taught her child 23 years ago and now is also teaching the grand daughter gives me an incentive… it means it worked…
Alma
Psalm34one,
Thanks for the advice. Maybe I will actually buy the newer editions. I usually first start out with the library to save money but it sounds like a good investment. So did your son remain ahead throughout his education? As an adult is he grateful that you taught him to read early? I’ve been getting some negative feedback about pushing my daughter too much. However I’m not pushing at all she likes learning new words.
Karma, Lori
Anybody who has tried both DVD & book? Can you please give a feedback regarding the DVDs. Is everything covered in the DVD or do you advice to really read the book. Time is very precious to me and if both covers the same, I would prefer the DVD. Please give some ideas, i just read the How to Multiply your Baby’s Intelligence ebook, and I am planning on buying the How to Teach your Baby to Read, Math & EK books, but if book & dvd are more or less the same, I think I’ll get the DVD. But if DVD compromise a lot of important points in the book, I will get the book then.
Future perfect is rather a simple tense but there are also a lot of details you have to know to learn it and teach it as well. Follow the link http://edit-it.org/blog/tips-for-future-teachers-how-to-teach-future-perfect