Just a short thought. In the United States we tend to teach kids the letter names (the ABC's). This is not necessarily the best way to teach your child if your goal is for them to read. The best thing to do is actually to teach them the sounds of the letters first. For instance if a child learns that C sounds like see, A sounds like Aye, and T sounds like Tee, when they try to put those sounds together they are going to get the word SeeAyeTee, which we all know is not what CAT sounds like. If you teach them the sounds first, when they try to read they will get the word cat from the letters CAT. when they try to read it. When they are trying to read it is usually the first sound they learned for a symbol that comes to mind. Eventually they will get the sound Aye for A and then translate it into the long A sound then read, but why not skip that step of translation, and give them the sound as the first thing that comes to mind when they see a letter! This really works!
In the English Language some letters have more than one or many sounds. Just teach one sound from each letter at a time. For instance teach A as in astronaut or Alligator, not A as in Ark or Air.
After your child knows the sounds of the letters, then teach them the names. As many can attest it takes about a week for a child to get the names of the letters after they already know the sounds. For some of them it only takes a day.
There is a great song for teaching this send me an email at smileincamo@hotmail.com and I will give you a link and can give you the visuals I made to go with it!
Toodles
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