What helped your child learn the alphabet?

What did you do or what did you use to help him/her learn?

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Alphabet puzzles, alphabet magnets and the leap frog letter factory dvd

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

Repetition. They sing the alphabet while pointing to the letters on the wall every single day at school. I then sing it with her numerous times after we get home.

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The alphabet song. Leap Frog letter factory helped them learn sounds. we also did flashcards

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

Repetition, foam letters in the bathtub, reading books about the alphabet, and he has two alphabet apps that he loves on the iPad (Interactive Alphabet and Endless Alphabet).

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Sent her to preschool :)

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meet the letters dvd by preschool prep.
And his big brother! wish I could take more credit! lol

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That's funny so many other people love the Leap Frog Letter Factory. It's really great, DD LOVES it!! But honestly, I got her this video when she turned 2 and at that point she already knew her alphabet, it just reinforced it.

What REALLY helped her learn her letters in such a short amount of time was http://www.starfall.com/ AMAZING website! You can get it for free on your computer, but we paid the $3 fee to get it on our ipad so that she could press the buttons herself. It has each letter, their sounds, videos, songs etc, etc. So many other things though available if you pay the full price, but I forget how much that is. What you get for free or $3 is more than sufficient. She had a lot of fun with that. Was knowing her letters between 1.5 - 2 yrs old.

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Cheapest and easiest way....Get those foam letters from TARGET for the bathtub...I threw them all in there and as he played with them, I would just name the letters! He picked it up quickly. I Still leave them in there and now he likes to "spell" words.

Also, letter magnets on fridge

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

We put DD's initial up over her changing table around her first birthday and she quickly learned the letter C. That got her really interested in letters. She's 14 months and can pick out a few letters and repeat most of them pretty clearly. She has letter blocks, we sing the alphabet song all the time and now I stop and let her fill in a few of the letters. She also loves the dr. seuss abc book and repeats the letters when we read it. It's more fun than most alphabet books. I also just have her practice repeating the letters to me whenever, riding in a shopping cart or while she's swinging, etc.

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

The foam bathtub letters, Leap Frog letter factory toy, books, alphabet puzzles, and believe it or not, the TV show Super Why on Sprout. He loves it.

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first we worked with letter magnets and he watched super why. then we used fridge phonics which he loved. I would ask him to find the letter and he would pick it off the fridge and give it to me or just point to it. He also has the leap frog letter factory DVD but he knew his letters before then. Now he can identify all the letters and pick them out even if scrambled...BUT when he SINGS the alphabet he mixes it all up out of order. (he's got the tune though! and even says "now i know my...")

I just went to Creative child shop on sunrise in RVC yesterday and bought this stuff to start teaching him at home since I won't be enrolling him in preschool this september (he just turned 2 on monday)




the back of the posters is quartered with 4 different printables that can be photocopied and used as handouts to practice the subject on the front (ie: writing the alphabet, connecting a line from capital letter to corresponding lower case, etc)

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

Daycare, foam letters for bath and alphabet cookies to make sure he remembers them. He can only have one if he can tell me what the letter is. lol

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Repetition, singing the song, pointing out letters in a book, iPad apps

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My twins are still in the process of learning the alphabet, but they love this new app (Talking ABC). My DD says s ome if the letters and copies the animal sounds associated with the letter.

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I am another vote for the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD. It is on netflix. I found out about it here and it helped both of my kids learn their letters.

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

We just sing it constantly threw out the day. I have one twin who can say it up to the Letter G at 20Months. They also know there colors. (basic prmiary colors)

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

I have an app on my iPhone and iPad called endless alphabet . My ds used to play it all the time. He knows the letters and the sounds they make.

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

Thanks for the ideas!

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LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Alphabet Set. Both LO's love/loved it! Also various apps on my phone.

What helped your child learn the alphabet?

Leap Frog letter factory!!!