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[quote=Anonymous]Kids do what is interesting to them. our older daughter had very limited interest learning letters and in reading. the process of reading was not interesting to her.  i was very stressed by the fact that she was not reading so i really went out of the way to try to find way to make it interesting. once i found the "format" that was interesting to her she learned fast and got really hooked.

for alphabet we used stickers. she was 3. we decorated her bed with letter stickers. it took us about 1 h and she knew all lower and upper case letters by the time we fished decorating.

for reading we got "meet the phonics" video letters/blends. she was 4. in 3 sessions of watching this stuff she could read. she was slow but she became every interested in the process.   somehow this particular video got her attention and something clicked. before that we had leapfrog videos and they not help...

once she was interested in the process of reading we got simple bob books and would ask her to read small parts of it, b4 bed, every night, 1-2 lines. she got gold star as a reward 4 her reading which kept interest going.

i can see now that if we did not actively try to figure out how to make her read we would not have had her reading by KG. Process of reading was not naturally interesting for her.

We have some friends... their kid could read by 3 1/2. In first month of KG this kid was reading at level of a 2nd grader. but this kid was always very interested in the process of reading. he knew alphabet by 2 and phonics by 2 1/2. it was a game/puzzle for him. 
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