It was a very cool book; wish I could remember the title /author, as I'd give up and just buy myself a new copy. I know it's British.
Thing is, usually when someone's trying to learn to read they've got some idea of context and they've got some idea of what real words sound like. By doing this transliteration, the book preserves that and makes it so you're only learning to read and not also trying to do it in a new language where nothing is familiar.
Yeah, I'd agree - the whole teaching-to-read thing seems to be something that happens if the kid hasn't already figured it out on his own before age 4 or 5.
Re: That's funny...
Thing is, usually when someone's trying to learn to read they've got some idea of context and they've got some idea of what real words sound like. By doing this transliteration, the book preserves that and makes it so you're only learning to read and not also trying to do it in a new language where nothing is familiar.
Yeah, I'd agree - the whole teaching-to-read thing seems to be something that happens if the kid hasn't already figured it out on his own before age 4 or 5.
Wow. Were you crawling until age 3?