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What are the benefits of teaching babies to read and why would anyone want to teach a baby to read? Read on for the answer.

From birth to 5 years old, the brain is developing at an incredible rate. Because of this, babies have the ability to learn many things easily that would require effort later on. This period of time has been coined the “window of opportunity” for teaching babies language, whether they are foreign languages, sign language or written language.

Babies are able to learn to read effortlessly and easily from birth through 3 years old using the whole word method. Not only are they able to learn to read, they learn to read intuitively as opposed to those of us who learn to read much later by learning the rules of the language.

This means that babies absorb language in the written form and the brain figures out the rules on its own.

The incredible thing about teaching babies to read using the whole word method is that they learn the rules on their own and are able to use them to read words they have never seen.

When you teach a baby to read, you don’t need to spend a lot of time teaching, they learn at lightening speed and they are able to read fluently almost overnight. They are able to read well and they generally are able to read more quickly and with a higher level of comprehension than children taught at an older age.

Babies that are taught to read develop a love of reading that lasts a lifetime. When they are being inquisitive and want to know that answers to many things, we can point out the books that will give them those answers. We teach them from a young age to find information from books, giving them the ability to learn for a lifetime.

After having taught children to read and babies to read, I would rather teach babies any day.

They are easy students to work with and are eager to learn, and they learn so easily.

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