When/how do you start doing this exactly? My LO is almost 2 and can say the alphabet and 1-10 now. She can recognize a few letters. Should I be teaching her how to recognize all the letters and then when she can do that - start putting them together? Just not sure how to teach her exactly!
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Wow! That's really good that she knows so much already! I'm a preschool teacher and a lot of my 4 and 5 year olds still have trouble with many letters.
I'd say to keep doing what you're doing, but be sure not to overwhelm her...just follow her lead. Once she recognizes the letters you can talk about the sounds and start doing easy words, like cat, hat, mat (replacing one letter at a time). Relate it to things in her world (D for dad, M for mom). When she's ready, it will begin to make sense to her.
My little sister learned to read full sentences by the time she was 4 because she wanted to do what I did. She watched me do homework and listened to my parents talk to me about letters, so she picked it up early.
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@Andrea: Wow your LO is a genius!
Charlie can count to ten. 1, 2, 4, 7, 10.
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@lilteacherbee: thanks! of course she does not pronounce them all 100% correctly but she loves to sing the alphabet song all day long and count things! i am following her lead because she is showing interest by pointing to letters and asking me "what's that?".
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@mrbee: let's hope and she can make a lot of money and support me. i want to retire early -- like now. hahaha.
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