Why Flash Card?
1. Easier: It is easier to teach a two-year-old to read at home than it is to teach a six-year-old at school.
1. Easier: It is easier to teach a two-year-old to read at home than it is to teach a six-year-old at school.
2. A joyous moment for mothers and babies: Since babies would rather learn than do anything else in the world, and would rather be with their parents than with anyone else in the world, there are few activities as joyous as learning-to-read sessions.
3. Reading is the very basis of all: If mother teaches her baby to read at one, two, or three years of age he will not fail to learn to read in school at six, seven, or eight years of age.
4. Wondrous thing: It is a wondrous thing for a baby, or child, or an adult to be able to read.
Babies are linguistic geniuses: Babies take in raw facts such as written and spoken words at a rate that no adult could come close to matching.
Babies are linguistic geniuses: Babies take in raw facts such as written and spoken words at a rate that no adult could come close to matching.
Why it is crucial to 'flash word' during early stage from 3 months?
In the first 6 years of life, a children has a mind that absorbs great amounts of information without any effort.
This is also the child's greatest learning capability period.
Thus, flashing words using flash cards can help stimulate the development of both hemispheres of the child's brain.
The left brain is sharpened through languages while the right brain is strengthen through pictures. Flash cards (especially Chinese characters) can help to achieve whole brain development by stimulating both the child's visual and auditory simultaneously. A well balanced development of the whole brain enhances the child's absorbent mind, learning skills, memory power, analytical and reasoning abilities.
The children who have strong reading skills since young will have a relaxing and enjoyable 'life long learning process' throughout his life time.
What to do in each flash cards session?
1. Pick up any number of flash cards.
2. Present the flash cards rapidly to your child at arm’s length.
3. Can flash from the front to the back, but the more preferred method is to flash from the back to the front.
4. While flashing the flash cards, read the words rapidly and loudly in a clear, high-pitched and enthusiastic voice.
5. Be excited and joyous all the time.
6. At the end of flashing, jumble up the flash cards. You may repeat the session for any number of times. You may wish to wait for about 5 minutes although there is no harm doing it immediately. It is suggested to flash the flash cards for 3 sessions in one day. If your child does not want it, do not do it. Do not bribe him into seeing it. Find another opportunity. All babies want to learn through play.
7. Always stop before your child wants to stop. This will keep your child’s eagerness, enthusiasm and expectation for the next session of flashing.
8. On the second day, retire 1 or any number of flash cards and replace it (or them) with the same number of any number of cards. Remember to be flexible and creative. Always let your child guide you to the level of his thirst of learning at that moment. Chances are, your child will request to see the flashcards.
9. Do the same on the third day and onwards. The key to successful early learning is to be joyous about the whole process. Remember to smile, smile, smile!
10. At the end of every session, kiss and hug your child and exclaim how wonderful he is. Give him ‘high-fives’! Tap on his shoulders, anchor him with all the positive messages. Programe into his subconscious mind that he is a super learner. And you love to teach him.
