Disclaimer – I am not claiming DD to be G&T; just posting here as wasn’t sure which section this should go in, and thought it would be read by people with bright children who have gone through the same thing. Hope that’s okay.
DD is 2.11. She has a real interest in letters and words, something which has developed naturally. She knows the alphabet obviously; she asks every day to “do typing” and can type about 5 words herself and read about 20 other words I type for her. At the moment these are mostly words she has seen in her environment - shop names, website names, words from food packets etc.
She is very observant with letters/words – for example spotting Scotland abbreviated to “Sco” on the TV and telling us it was similar to “Tesco”, or noticing “ee” in the middle of words like feet and wheel and telling me that’s where I got my phone from (I did!) This sort of thing happens all day.
She also loves books, so I think that in theory she could learn to read now. But my question is, how do I go about it? My instinct would be just to develop whole word recognition as that's where she's at already, but I’m aware that it’s all about phonics at school. I’m slightly loathe to go down that route as would worry I was getting it wrong.
My concern is if she learnt to read the “old” way, would it cause problems once she started school and was taught a different way from scratch? I just want to develop an interest which is there but I certainly don’t want to cause any potential problems or confusion for her.
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polythenespam · 07/03/2014 09:20
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