Just a note you can only use 2 codes per year

I ended up signing up but a lot of the activities are a bit beyond my 17month old at the moment. While she knows all her letters and sounds, she cannot identify the sound at a beginning of a word - which is what quite a few of the activities are based on. But hoping that will happen in the coming year. We have only just started LR

thanks for your help. The Diagnostic tool didnt fix the problem but we have found it is because of our Digital Audio. If we plug in headphones and use the analog signal then it is fine.

Have you had any success getting it to with with other Digital Audio setups?

Thanks for your reply.

I downloaded the LR trial but the audio is not working properly on my computer. I posted in Tech Support but I dont know if they can help. It wouldnt install on one of our computers at all

I will do some more research into the phonics side of things as she seems to know quite a few already and is picking them up quite quickly. I tried the 1st Reading Bear lesson but it doesnt hold her interest at all, so we might look at the next Starfall lessons and see what they are like.

Are there any tips for letter confusion (eg h/n, c/o, m/w) or is it just a matter of keep on practicing? I've been trying to explain the differences but I'm not sure how well she understands, as she keeps on adamantly proclaiming it's the other (incorrect) letter.

Hi,
I have the trial version and have tried playing the first lesson.
The beginning of each audio clip is getting cut off. For example, if it said 'ball', 'bat', 'bell', all I hear is 'all', 'at', 'ell'. I have tried turning off auto advance and even when I advance the slides manually, the beginning sound is still chopped off.
I have a fast computer and up to date sound drivers and codecs.
thanks

Hi all,

I had no idea that such a community existed until a few days ago. I have a 15month old who has shown an interest in learning the alphabet - we just play with foam letters in the bath and have wall stickers. So I thought I would do some searching on what else to do and came across a load of stuff. I'm a bit overwhelmed and not sure where to start.

My daughter can recognise some upper and lower case letters and I've been showing her a few letters on Starfall and singing the little ditty from Letter Factory (B says buh etc) and that's all so far. We watched the Letter Factory once but it doesnt keep her attention

So from here, I figured I had better:
1. start some sort of whole word activity like LR or YBCR, with flashcards (physical or on screen)
2. teach her the rest of the letters of the alphabet ?
3. and the phonics? what is the best way of doing that. Do I need to wait until she knows every letter sound before doing Reading Bear?
4. start putting my finger under the words when we read

I'm completely lost, please help

eta: her speech is quite good with about 250 words (single - only just starting to string words together)