At What Age Does DC Recognize Letters?

[Anonymous]

My child was born knowing the alphabet. Yes, actually she invented the alphabet.... In fact, she recently taught our cat to speak Arabic... so yeah.. I guess that just makes her a little bit smarter, a little more clever, just a little better than your child.

^ My lame attempt at Penelope on SNL...

Seriously, my son didn't recognize letters until he was 4, didn't read until he got to kindergarten and was later tested (because I was curious, and we needed to know for GT certification) to have an IQ of 143. So, IMO, these early milestones may show who is smart, but not who's not smart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not asking to be competitive! My DH has Dyslexia, and I wonder what the average age range is for kids to learn their letters. DS is 25 months, and can sing and say the alphabet, but only recognizes a handful of letters (like A, B, maybe O or S) even though we have been practicing since he learned the alphabet. I'll talk to my pediatrician when we have our next visit, but would like to have a sense as to whether I should be concerned at this point.

Thanks!

Mine new uppercase around 18 months, lower case later... maybe around 2? I can't recall.

This sounds a bit shady.

I agree. That poster sounds like she's been hanging around sesame street buying letters for her kid from that guy in the trenchcoat and fedora.

[Anonymous]

My DD is almost 25 months and is starting to sing the alphabet song but parts of it are fuzzy and unclear and she can't identify any letters. My DS was probably 2.5 before he started to recognize upper-case and now at almost 4 is only starting to get to know lower-case a little bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not asking to be competitive! My DH has Dyslexia, and I wonder what the average age range is for kids to learn their letters. DS is 25 months, and can sing and say the alphabet, but only recognizes a handful of letters (like A, B, maybe O or S) even though we have been practicing since he learned the alphabet. I'll talk to my pediatrician when we have our next visit, but would like to have a sense as to whether I should be concerned at this point.

Thanks!

Mine new uppercase around 18 months, lower case later... maybe around 2? I can't recall.

This sounds a bit shady.

I'm this poster. No, I swear, he did. He loved Sesame Street and got them there I guess, as I never made a point to teach him. He still messes up the lower case (he's 2.5). But he's also no where near potty trained and can't jump with two feet off the ground... to each his own skills and abilities I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not asking to be competitive! My DH has Dyslexia, and I wonder what the average age range is for kids to learn their letters. DS is 25 months, and can sing and say the alphabet, but only recognizes a handful of letters (like A, B, maybe O or S) even though we have been practicing since he learned the alphabet. I'll talk to my pediatrician when we have our next visit, but would like to have a sense as to whether I should be concerned at this point.

Thanks!

Mine new uppercase around 18 months, lower case later... maybe around 2? I can't recall.

This sounds a bit shady.

I'm this poster. No, I swear, he did. He loved Sesame Street and got them there I guess, as I never made a point to teach him. He still messes up the lower case (he's 2.5). But he's also no where near potty trained and can't jump with two feet off the ground... to each his own skills and abilities I guess.

Okay, I'm sorry, I believe you!
Signed,
"Shady" commenter

[Anonymous]

OUr DD is 2.5 and she recognizes all uppercase letters and most lowercase. She knows the sounds letters make for about 3/4 of the letters. We have started with 1st reader books recently and sounding out words. After a few words she can "sound out" other words with major help with us.

[Anonymous]

The bottom line, OP, is that your child is absolutely within normal range.

[Anonymous]

My DC started learning letters at 26 mos maybe. Simple Letter Puzzles and the pretend computer ($30) with letter games certainly helped. Of course, she still gets confused with M and W, etc. but I think the puzzles really helped. The simplier the puzzle the better. I found the crazy color one from Melissa and Doug to be visually irritating. Numbers she is not as good at, but can count to 20 at 33 months.
If you practice with them it will come...

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for your comments. I'd heard that Montessori only teaches by phonics, rather than letters, but didn't know whether the underlying reasoning was valid. I started working with him to learn letters because he likes the alphabet song so much, but I won't push it if it seems too confusing to him.

[Anonymous]

DD is 18 mos and she recognizes 5-10 letters -- like when she sees the "D" on her tray that says "Dishwasher Safe" she points to it and says "DDDDDDDDD!!!" A great toy that really helped this is the Magnet School by Parents. Highly recommended.

[Anonymous]

My DD, who will be 2 in a few weeks, knows almost all upper case letters, and I attribute this mostly to a toy my brother gave her that has each letter on it and when you press them it tells you what the letter is and the name of the object associated with it (i.e. A - apple). She loves the toy and has been playing with it for months. I also attribute her learning letters so early to my husband who works with her in the bathtub with the bath toy spongy letters. She can spell her name and recognizes lots of letters on signs, trucks, etc... It's pretty cool, but I'm not about to enroll her in the gifted program. There are things that other kids her age are doing that she's not. I think each child learns at his or her own speed and most get to an even playing field by somewhere in elementary school.