Flashcards: Couplets 1

These are the first in a series of flashcards on couplets.  We are nearing the end of the Doman reading program.  After the introduction of couplets, you will introduce phrases, and finally sentences.  From there, you can begin to make your own books for your child to read.

How to use the slides:

I used to recommend a blog post I wrote some time back titled “How to Teach Your Baby (the Glenn Doman way)” as described in the book “How to Teach Your Baby to Read” by Glenn Doman. However, since teaching my children using this method, I have found it to be unnecessarily repetitive and too slow. Doman is right – children are brilliant learners and they can learn very fast – but I feel his method doesn’t address this adequately because it incorporates too many repetitions. Children can learn so fast that sometimes all it takes is one flash taken in at a glance.

If you’re like me, doubting whether once is enough, then you may want to repeat the series a few more times. I’m not going to make a recommendation on how many times it is necessary to show a child a series of flashcards because I don’t believe I have enough experience on this topic to do that. Even now I still have trouble believing that a child can learn that quickly even though my son has proven to me time an again that it is so. However, I do believe that 3 times a day for 5 days is probably a tad excessive. It appears that a number of other mothers who have tried the Doman method concur.

Flash the cards quickly – about the pace of one card per second. The younger your child, the faster I would go. It is difficult to maintain the attention of a very young child unless you do flash them quickly.

Flashcards in this series:

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Flashcards: Bits of Intelligence – Mathematics

This is a series of flashcards introducing Mathematics.  Just for clarity, this series falls under Bits of Intelligence rather than the Math series because it teaches the overall concept of Math.  In time to come, I intend to cover stuff like Pythagoras’ Theorem and calculus under the Math section (as soon as I figure out how to teach it, that is).

Some of the flashcards in this series:

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Mathematics


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Flashcards: Bits of Intelligence – Modern Wonders

For the seven modern wonders of the world, I took the list that was voted in as the top seven wonders of the world in 2007.  Although the polling system for selecting these seven modern wonders of the world was criticised as being un-scientific, I decided to use them anyway.  If you want a more Scientific list, you can check out the list of heritage sites that were selected by UNESCO, who have a specific criteria for selection.  Alternatively, you can check out the lists of seven wonders of the world according to their different categorisations, e.g. natural wonders, medieval wonders, etc.

Some of the flashcards in this series:

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The Seven Modern Wonders of the World


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