Phonics

[ELeducation]

I'd like to ask your opinions about teaching phonics.  My daughter is 12 months old, and a few days ago we put on Preschool Prep Meet the Phonics Letter Sounds. She loved it! She especially loves "a" and "i" and even says some of the letter sounds while watching. My question is the following: is she too young for learning the letter sounds? Should I hold off on phonics and concentrate on sight words?
We just started the meet the sight words as well.
Thanks for your input!

[Mandabplus3]

If she likes it keep showing it. Preschool prep is great and many of us can credit it with some successes. They have apps as well BTW

[ELeducation]

Thanks for your input! She definitely enjoys it, and today she also said the "b", "d", "o", and "t" sounds while watching. We have been skipping the word building section thus far and doing only the letter sounds, the vowel song, and the phonics song. I have shown her the silent e portion a couple of times because she seems to really like that character. The word building section seems like it might be difficult concept for babies to grasp at this age...
What do you think?

I'll continue with the sight words as well.

I downloaded a couple of the apps. I'm hoping she loves them just as much!

In addition, we just got her the leapfrog letter factory phonics toy to reinforce, as I've seen positive reviews on this product on the forum.

[cheerymom]

hello ELeducation ! ,  learning phonetic sounds via leap frog amuse my kid while watching the letters jump and play its sound.., I  would recommend to continue phonics . even my kid is happy to say aaaa asteroid.. and then learn the word sounds too. Also they do master letters sounds pretty quickly ...so get prepared to quench their next thirst   
 
By the way glad that you do 'sight words' separately, they are one of the best RB simulators for 12 months old   .

- happy learning !
cheerymom 

[ELeducation]

Thanks for the encouragement! I will continue with both the phonics and sight words then. Today she recognized a "d" and an "n" on a random sign and said the sounds. Unbelievable!  
I'm glad you mentioned right brain. I'm trying to get some more ideas for right brain besides Tweedlewink (which is excellent).

[Joleen Tan]

Hi all, my elder child is 3 years old and she seem to be poor in phonics, despite showing her some of those free apps. She don't seem very much interested.

I myself know nuts about phonics and can't help feeling lost of how to go about teaching her phonics to get started.

Any advise here on how I can start and any other resources or useful apps I can engage in?

Thanks much.

[ELeducation]

Starfall.com is a great free resource for learning letter sounds/phonics.  Many others have had success with the Leapfrog videos and the Leapfrog fridge phonics magnets. There's also a few Preschool Prep meet the phonics DVDs that are wonderful.
I know there are members here who love Hooked on Phonics and their app as well.
Reading Bear is another great resource that I believe belongs to one of our members and has been mentioned many times.

[Mandabplus3]

Readingbear.org is definitely a great place to begin on the phonics journey and it's free! It will teach phonics from the beginning to the end and also teaches blending, a skill little ones often struggle with when beginning with ohonics.
I like staff all too but all the kids I know prefer preschool prep DVDs. They even pick preschool prep overs magic school bus and that is a high honour

[Joleen Tan]

So basically I let her to learn on the pronunciation of the alphabet first?

The mentioned free apps teaches on the pronunciation right? I bought some phonics book but it's more of practice than teaches on the sounds of the letters.

I don't really dare to buy dvd per say... Worrying about the version of the eve player compatible as well.

[MamaOfWill]

I just want to add, if she likes Preschool Prep, she might also enjoy Alphablocks - there's over 100 x4 minute episodes of Alphablocks on youtube.

[ELeducation]

Mandabplus3, my little girl absolutely adores preschool prep videos   I've noticed that reading bear is often suggested as an excellent resource for phonics but haven't actually tried it myself. Does it teach letter sounds?

MamaOfWill, I was not familiar with Alphablocks. Thanks for the suggestion! It looks very entertaining and educational. I can't wait to show my little girl

[ELeducation]

MamaOfWill, I just wanted to let you know that I played the first Alphablocks 3 minute episode of the alphabet (where each letter basically introduces themselves by making its letter sound), and my baby LOVED it! She was laughing the whole way through. Thank you for introducing us to this additional free resource for teaching letter sounds and phonics

[Korrale4kq]

Starfall was the best that I found for teaching letter sounds other than preschool prep videos.

[Joleen Tan]

On this topic, I m riding on to ask at what age can we start to introduce phonics to a baby? I have a baby girl of 4 months plus.. And I recalled a member here already started exposing phonics to her 12 months old child.

Thanks much.

[ELeducation]

Korrale4kq, thanks! We did starfall a few times, and she really enjoys it. I think doing preschool prep and reinforcing with starfall and the others will help her learn her letter sounds in no time

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