At what age did your child begin learning how to recognize letters and identify their sounds? How did you teach this?

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Around 14 months old ...many years before "Hooked on Phonics" came into existance. As soon as she learned the alphabet song I bought a board with magnetic letters and taught her what the letters were. When she was about 16 months or so we went to a restaurant (I remember clearly that it was Ponderosa).

Her father placed her in one of those little restaurant highchairs...and she began to look around....and pointed to the EXIT sign and said, "X". The other diners couldn’t believe what they heard. The next day I placed the letters on the board and taught her what each letter sounds like.

A few days later I placed the letters C A T on the board and had her sound it out. Then I replaced the C with an H and had her sound that out. I did that until I used all the possibilities up to P A T.

After she sounded that out I changed the T to a D. I kept changing letters and adding longer words and before long she was putting the words on the board herself and reading them back to me. By the time she was 2 she was reading everything she saw..signs, magazine covers, newspaper headlines, etc.Then she began reading books.

And not just children’s books, but actual books. I had one of those books that most new mothers buy...the one that lists the symptoms for different childhood illnesses.Well....one day when she and I were watching TV, I coughed. She looked very concerned (I can’t remember the exchanges word for word but,) she asked, "do you have a fever?

I said, no". She asked, "do you have a headache? " I said "no".

"Do you have a sore throat?" I said "no". "Do you have a stomach ache?

" I said, "no...and why are you asking me these questions?" She said, "I wanted to make sure that you don’t have the flu". All I could say was, "HUH?

" Then she went and got the medical book and opened it to the page regarding flu symptoms. She handed it to me and said, "See...you don’t have the flu". A few days later I took her shopping for books.

The ones she picked out were at the second grade level. I bought them...she read them. And then she was on to the next grade level.

And so it went. When she started kindergarten her reading was at the 6th grade level. I was sure that I had a genius on my hands!

Being that she had already shown an interest in the medical field...I thought maybe a future doctor or surgeon? Or maybe a biologist? Or maybe even a scientist who would discover the cure for an "incurable" disease?

As it turns out...she is in the medical field...to some degree. She’s a caregiver and med-tech in an assisted living facility. It’s an emotionally rewarding occupation, albeit monetarily UNrewarding.

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My oldest was pretty advanced, the 2nd not so much Our first daughter was very much interested in learning from a young age. I was teased by my wife and in-laws when I made flash cards of letters up as my daughter was only about 8 or 9 months old. But a week later when my daughter pointed out letters when being read too that all changed.

She quickly new all her letters (lowercase) and then moved on to numbers and then upper case letters. Because our daughter seemed to be interested in was pretty easy. Our second daughter lacked that interest and has learned but not at an accelerated pace.

Good luck .

For my daughter, this started between age 1 and 2, but this varies widely. I would recommend teaching this when the child starts to show an interest in letters. I made up a song spelling her name.

I would also point out objects that started with the same letter that her name starts with. You can also feature a "letter of the day" a la Sesame Street, and have Bananas for Breakfast and play with a Ball. The important thing is to keep it fun.

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Sesame Street! I really dont' remember that exact age my daughter learned her letters, but I know it was young and Sesame Street probably gets the credit for it! She loved that show, and was an active participant in it as she watched it every day.At night she liked to fall asleep to Sesame Street tapes of Ernie and Grover singing... We read alot, of course, and played with the magnet alphabet pieces on the refrigerator.

It just was something that came pretty natural to us to work with her on it. She went to preschool, and they did some work on letters there, but not alot. *Poppet*'s Recommendations ABC Table Topper Disposable Placemat Pack - 50 ct.

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1 Spectox, regarding your answer "My oldest was pretty advanced, the 2nd not so much": Thanks, good to know. Are your children now at the age where you can tell the difference in skills between the advanced and not as advanced daughter? I appreciate all the responses to my questions.My children are almost 3 and 16 months.

We read a lot, play with magnetic letters, watch Sesame Street, point out letters on signs, etc. My older daughter has been singing the ABC's for more than a year and has what I consider an advanced vocabulary, but she shows little interest in learning letters by sight or sound yet. I guess it'll come when it comes! .

Spectox, regarding your answer "My oldest was pretty advanced, the 2nd not so much": Thanks, good to know. Are your children now at the age where you can tell the difference in skills between the advanced and not as advanced daughter? I appreciate all the responses to my questions.My children are almost 3 and 16 months.

We read a lot, play with magnetic letters, watch Sesame Street, point out letters on signs, etc. My older daughter has been singing the ABC's for more than a year and has what I consider an advanced vocabulary, but she shows little interest in learning letters by sight or sound yet. I guess it'll come when it comes!

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