Learning ABC's
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Abc's
Asked by A.A. from Nashville
on March 8, 2012
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What is a good way to teach ABC'S?
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- My 20m old can sing her ABCs independently because we sang them at every diaper change. Just a tip for others. For your three year old I would sing them in the car, ...
- My little guy turns 3 next month and he knows the ABC song, and all his letters by sight and I'm working on the sounds with him. One thing he does is play with his AB...
- I think the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom helps enormously. It helps with letter recognition and is fun to read. I also think the ABC magnets are very helpful. Leapfrog...
ABC Help
Asked by T.A. from Philadelphia
on January 31, 2007
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My 5 year old daughter has a difficult time remembering the names of the letters. I She can write them but when asked to identify them she cannot do it. Any ideas on h...
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- What my helped my brother-in-law (he's 7) is he would write them in the sand and make the letter sound. The texture on his hands helped him remember. Also reading to...
- T., I know you closed this request but I wanted to give you something quick, different and easy. Every house with kids has a letters puzzle or the alphabet somewhere....
- Starfall.com is a great website for teaching the alphabet. It's one of the best i have found. Also, uptoten.com has great games, not sure there are any ABC ones thou...
Abc's and 123'S
Asked by N.C. from Lakeland
on December 12, 2006
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i've been trying to teach my 3 almost 4 year old her ABC's and her 123's she can say them after i do but if i ask her to pick out a letter or number or tell me what l...
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- Hello N., Have you tried letting them watch the "Letter Factory" from Leap Frog. You can let them watch it while you get breakfast, luch, snack, or dinner ready. ...
- Hi. I have a now 4 year old that suffered from speech delay and was/is boarderline autistic. I created hundreds of resources and games to help him visualize the basi...
- Hi N.! My name's K.... and my little boy just turned 2. When he turned 1, we got him the Little Leap Frog fridge letter whammer and the barnyard one since it does an...
Learning Her Abc's
Asked by J.N. from Fort Smith
on February 17, 2009
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I am having the biggest problem. My daughter is learning her ABC's but when she is with me its like she just wants to play around. She will not be serious. She says...
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- The first time my daughter pointed out and named a letter, I got her the Leapster Fridge phonics, it has all the letter and tells what the letter is and the sound it m...
- i don't know how you feel about tv/dvd's but sounds like you are ok with it so... my son was doing the same thing - not even trying or saying "i don't know" when we ha...
- I highly recommend "Leap Frog Letter Factory" DVD. You can get it at Wal-Mart for about $10. My daughter just turned 4 in October and now knows all of her alphabet a...
Learning the Abc's
Asked by K.M. from New York
on March 9, 2011
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OK, so my daughter is 3.5 years old and she goes to a prescholl full time. She can sing the ABC song but she cannot identify all the letters yet. She knows the letter ...
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- My experience: One daugther who taught herself to read full sentences by 2.5, one daughter still working on her letters at 4. Both excellent readers now at 14 and 11. ...
- It does not have to be a contest of who knows more than who but as parents we do need to take an active role in our children's academic life as well. And learning can ...
- The preschools don't generally expect them to know them yet at her age. Whether or not they are capable or eager to learn them, however, is very child specific. Some ...
Kindergarten Abc's
Asked by M.B. from Dallas
on November 10, 2011
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I need some ideas for my 5 year old little girl. She is in Kindergarten this year but cannot recgonize her ABC's. She can say them, but if you point to one of the le...
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- We posted the whole alphabet on both kids' bedroom walls. We point at each letter while we sing the alphabet (you can get an Alphabet poster from the teacher store, b...
- I did response to intervention in a kindergarten classroom with some kiddos who were behind on letter Id. We took the letters and put glue on them. Allowed the glue ...
- Try www.starfall.com. There are games she can play that help with letter recognition and building words. You can also have her watch the "Letter Factory" movie by Le...
Help with Abc's
Asked by T.M. from Dallas
on July 20, 2011
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My son will be 5 on Aug 10 and will be starting Kindergarten in about 5 weeks. EEEEKKKK. He is my only baby and that will be hard for this mama.
He has never been in...
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- I love the suggestions you have been given. Don't over do it, though. Don't make it something bigger than it is where he hates it. Other ideas: *Change out libr...
- Another vote for the Leap Frog Letter Factory DVD (if your son is into tv). The LeapFrog Fridge Phonics toy is a great accessory to the DVD too. It sounds like you...
- You can search for my website since urls are not allowed, I have a Language Arts section, then reading section. And while it is wonderful that you are working with him...
Abc's and 123'S
Asked by M.C. from Pocatello
on August 11, 2011
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My daughter is 2.5 and will be 3 in December. She is incredibly smart, in my "mom" opinion... and up till now we have let her learn through exploration mostly. She lov...
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- Sounds like she is right on track. The first step to learning letters and numbers is for a child to recognize that the markings that they see are symbols that represe...
- All kids these days seem to be smart in some respect or another. My son knew the entire alphabet by 18 months. He is now four and can count to fourty by himself. He al...
- You're on the right track. Just keep it fun--she doesn't really need to be drilled on anything. Count when you can, do letters when you can. I say, just get more c...
When Do Kids Learn the Abc's?
Asked by S.N. from Orlando
on March 5, 2007
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I know that all children are different, and that you can't compare one with the other. However, I've been getting comments about my daughter and I want to know if peop...
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- sounds like fun! do you have the leap frog Word Wammer? or the leap frog Letter Factory dvds? these are GREAT for continuing to encourage her exploration!!
- HI, My daughter is 2 now, and she has been saying her ABC's for about a year now. She learned them very fast, she can also count to 20 with almost no help. But I a...
- My daughter was the same way. At 18 months she could do things like load one of her learning games into the cd drive on my computer, push "start" in the menu, and navi...
Preschooler Learning Abc's
Asked by A.J. from Knoxville
on January 29, 2009
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What type of books or dvd would you recommend for preschooler learning ABC's & 123's? I babysit for my friend's, daughter's children 3 days a week. The little boy is t...
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- I love Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein both have a fun program.
- Wal-Mart and Barnes & Nobels have wonderful workbooks ranging from pre-k up to 6th grade level on various topics (math, writing, abc's, numbers). I am a new nanny who ...
- We like Sesame Street's Alphabet Jungle. My husband's aunt loaned us her copy, and we wound up getting our own. I ordered it online, but I can't remember where.
