2 Year Old Daughter Interested in Really Learning Her Letters, Help With

My kids LOVE the Leapfrog videos. My 6 yr old is in kindergarten. He has wached the videos since he was about 2 1/2 and is reading on about a 3rd grade level!! My 4 yr old daughter has recognized all her leters since she was 2 and could even tell you the sounds that they make. She is now learning to spell and sound out words. There is a whole series of videos: The Letter Factory (teaches ABC letter recognition and the sounds the letters make), The Word Factory (teaches reading and sounding out of simple words), Code Word Caper (teaches about the silent e), and the Storybook Factory (you read along with the video) There is also a math video called The Math Circus that teaches counting to 20 (I thinnk) and addition/subtraction of numbers 0-10. You can usually find the videos at Target or Wal-mart or at Toys R Us. Good luck!!

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Hi my name is B. a have 2 girls that are 12 and 9 and a 2 year old son. We have bought every toy out there but the thing that helped my kids learn their abc's is to buy a cheap small photo album and fill it with photos or cut out pics from magazines with familiar items that start with each letter. Go in alphabetical order and beside each picture write the letter that it starts with in bold (or you can do it on the computer). Seeing their family and their own things in the book really seems to help them remember. Good luck!

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"letter factory" by leapfrog!!! i had gotten it from the library for my oldest when he was 3 1/2 yrs old. my almost 2 year old loved it and it didnt take him long to know the alphabet and its sounds. he started writing them by the time he was 2 1/2 yrs old and has become obsessed with the alphabet. forget regular toys, he has requested abc's every christmas and b-day since then. he is now 4 1/2 yrs old and is almost reading and writing words almost correctly.....i swear its b/c of that video!!

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Playschool.com has a great computer game they can play just google toddler games and there is an ABC game everytime they press a key it goes from A to B etc. and at the end sings the abc song and gives the option to start over! I played it tonight with my one year old and she loved it... granted she can't say her abc's yet!! but it's fun to play with different education mediums. Also we have a phonics radio from leap frog that pages turn and every time you hit a button it tells you what the letter is and sings a song about the sounds the letters make. As they advance you can play find that letter on it. Good Luck!!

Any of the Leap Frog products are excellent. Specifically the fridge phonics and there is a DVD called the Letter Factory that is really cute. My daughter is 4 and has been able to write and recognize her letters for quite a while. Hope that helps. Good luck

My son loved the leap frog dvd's and really learned from that they also have flash cards and a little refrigerator magnet thing that the kids put the letter and it says the name of the letter and it's sound so that might help

This week I saw on The TODAY show, NBC, a little girl who is 16 months old. and the child is reading. You can see how lovingly she turns the pages and reads. Children are learning earlier and earlier it seems. The child was presented by the staff on the program with words she didn,t have and she pronounced each one of them. She went on to 3 & 4 word sentences. Let your child go at the pace she sets. I can't help you with how to teach her because I have been living in Puerto Rico many years, and here they start with the vowels, then begin to add sylables with the vowels, and add more syllables as time goes on. I am proud to say I learned Spanish drilling my children and studying with them, but I still have problems with Grammar. It is so wonderful to have a child like yours! Her IQ must be high now and will continue to rise so much! Congratulations!

My 2 year old learned his letters by sight from cheap foam bath letters. :)

My daughter is also 2 and is very interested in her ABCs and 123s. My mother in law bought her an inexpensive set of magnetic alphabets and numbers and a magnetic board, and we point to each one as we sing the ABC song or say 123s. It's been three months now, and if you randomly point to a letter or number, at least 75% of the time she gets it right!

Hey E., my 3 yr old knew his abc's by sight and song by the time he was 15mths old...we watched the leap frog "letter factory" DVD together, and also have the leap frog fridge phonics letters, you can find them usually at any toy store or target and walmart, they aren't expensive and they are fun...it was really great...they also have farm animals, and 3 and 4 letter word ones now....hope this helps...A.

I bought my daughter Leapfrog fridge phonics magnetic set. It helps make out the letter sounds and also sings the abc song. It's great. it cost about $15.00 - 20.00. great for christmas

try v-tech products they have worked so well with my grandchildern i spend a little extra but it is so worth it also look into a good pre-school, now is the time for learning. did u know that they are thinking about starting the kids in head start at age 3?

My aunt bought my two year old daughter a leap frog toy. Its frig magnets that come with a little holder that they put all the letters in and it tells them the sound it makes and a word and than does a little song. Its really pretty neat.

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My little boy got a V-Tech Alphabet Town game for Christmas last year and he loves it. He has learned to spell from it. We are on our 3rd on because he takes it everywhere he goes. They are $20.00 at Wal-mart and I think I seen it at Target as well. It is still his favorite toy. It has Spelling,A clock,counting, phonics and several other things on it. I recommend it to everyone I meet.I can get a picture of it and e-mail it to you if you would like. ____@____.com K.

My son is not quite 2 1/2 and he was also very interested in learning letters. I found an alphabet puzzle in the shape of a train at Ross for like $4.99. Each piece is a different letter so I can say "OK, find the letter J." He has put it together so many times (with my help and naming the letters as we go along) that now he recognizes all of the letters. I don't think it takes an expensive kit like Hooked on Phonics, just a little creativity.