brillbaby.com | This video was taken when Felicity was 12 and a half months old. Here’s baby Felicity reading again, this time mainly reading the words out loud, like Daddy, Mommy, baby, ball, knee, cup, bubble, dog and some Chinese words. No one had to force her (we do not believe in forcing!), and sometimes you can’t drag her away from her books. Note When this video was taken, she did not know phonics, in that she either recognizes the word, or she doesn’t. If your definition of “reading” means she must know phonics, then she doesn’t know how to read. But then, that would also mean that people ‘reading’ languages such as Chinese do not know how to read either, because you either recognize the Chinese character(s) or you don’t. Having said that, we’ve found that the more a child is exposed to words (even if they are merely memorizing the words at first), they figure out the phonics rules for themselves intuitively and very quickly. To learn more about teaching your baby to read, please visit www.brillbaby.com . In particular, check out the Little Reader reading software which was also used to help Felicity learn to read. Also see the compilation of all her reading videos www.youtube.com Also see another baby (Nim) read over 40 words at 16 months here: www.youtube.com