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[quote=Anonymous]He's just not interested in it and isn't fully grasping the concept, but he will get it.  I've been amazed at how my DS's capacity to understand this has just exploded in the past few months.  He's 4.5.  Prior to this, he really didn't get the concept but recently, he's said out of the blue things like, "Peanut butter and purple both start with P."  I can do what you're doing and say, "Da da dragon -- what does that start with?" and he often knows.  We haven't done anything major at home or at school except some small amount of practice, etc.  I think it's just a developmental thing.

At this age, I absolutely do not think this is unusual.  If he still can't get the concept at all in at age 4.5 or 5, then you might look into what the PP described in terms of dyslexia, but I think that's unlikely to be the case just based on what you've said.  Just keep practicing sounding things out.  In fact, you might want to practice JUST using letter sounds more than the names of letters because it can be confusing.  So, call the letter "m" (which you'd normally call "em") as "ma" and "w" (which you'd normally call "double u") as "wa."[/quote]

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