We had a vision test at the pediatricians office the other day and the woman doing the test was trying to get my daughter to read the letter chart. She knew a few of the letters (she knows about half of the alphabet) but she went silent on most. So, she had to switch to the shapes, which was no problem.
Can your child recognize all of the letters in the alphabet?
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Yes and yes.
DD knew all the letters before she turned 2.
DS, right around 2yo.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
I believe so. Sometimes she will mix certain ones up (@oliviaoblivia: Like M and W) and lowercase letters can throw her sometimes, but I think she does know them all. The other day she was holding up the H foam letter and would hold it up and say "this is an H" then turn it in its side and say "now it looks like an I".
But I could see her getting shy at the doctors office and saying she didn't know anyway.
Eta: she will be 3 at the end of July.
honeydew / 7504 posts
Yes. He loves to point out letters, especially the letter D, since his name starts with a D. He struggles a bit with lowercase just because they've mostly learned uppercase so far (he's 3), but he gets uppercase with no trouble.
ETA: But I could definitely see him saying he didn't know or clamming up out of shyness at the doctor's office.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
Yes. Unless she is in a mood then she suddenly can't remember.
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
Yes, as long as they're upper-case. She doesn't know all of the lower-case ones yet.
clementine / 778 posts
Yes. DS knew all his uppercase letters by the time he was 18 months, and lowercase was around 20 months.
When our K-1 English Language Learners have eye test at school, they use a picture chart instead of letters, numbers, or shapes.
grapefruit / 4321 posts
Yep. With uppercase she can recognize them all and tell you what sound they make. With lowercase I would say she's about 75% successful? I know she gets confused on lowercase b vs d vs p.
ETA: She's 3.5. She's known the upper case letters for probably about a year?
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
He knows all his uppercase. I'm not sure about lowercase.
coconut / 8079 posts
Yes. He's been obsessed since about 18 months. He knows uppercase and lowercase. He also knows that M is for Mama etc. but I doubt he would be able to do all that in a doctor's office!! He's 2 now.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
LO 1 knows all of the upper case and most of the lower. LO 2 only knows the uppercase letters.
honeydew / 7463 posts
Mostly but he confuses some on occasion.
M, N and W are hard for him.
Occasionally he'll mix up P and R since they're same shape with a slight difference.
Oh and it's just uppercase. He doesn't really know lower case yet.
He knows numbers 1-9
He'll be 2 in September. I've been told it's early to know them (by my sister who has 3 older kids) BUT I really think it's because my sitter insisted on letter and number flash cards when he was like 6 months old. She's been doing them a couple times a week ever since.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
I'm not 100% sure but she definitely would be too shy to call them out at a doctor's office. Shes 3.5
persimmon / 1281 posts
DS knew them all from 20-21 months old and loves calling them out wherever he sees signs or posters.
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