Worried knowing her ABCs will ruin Phonics?

[Bells3032]

Probably dumb and may end up being called a troll or stealth bosting etc but ehh who cares.

My daughter is just turned 2 and loves her ABCS, she can do the alphabet in order missing maybe one or two and can recognise about half the letters out of order. I'm not saying she's a genius or anything, she's just obsessed with those youtube simplesong videos where they do the alphabet and has learnt from there (although it annoys me she says zeeee instead of zed).

I really want to encourage her as she loves to be read to and pretends to read herself too but worried in teaching her this way I am going to really confuse her when she learns phonics in school. I don't really know or understand phonics?

If i am going to encourage her letters should i be using phonics rather than letters? are there any good resources for me to learn the letters that way myself?

Thanks

It so not an issue. For years and years kids were taught 'muh' and we all managed just fine. I listened to readers for years and lots of them struggled with 'mmmm'. I always thought they should have just stuck with muh, it might not be considered to blend quite as well but it's much easier to say correctly consistently when you're 4 years old.

I second alpha blocks Mr Thom on YouTube is good too.

In school we teach the letter names after the sounds, just because it makes it harder for children to sound out words if they say the letter name by accident e.g c-a-t becomes See-AY-Tee which doesn’t make cat.

No, it's fine. She'll learn the sounds with no problem, even if she already knows the names. Some phonics programs say you shouldn't but frankly I believe they are over-thinking it. I never had any problem teaching my kids to read even though they knew the alphabet song.

The names are useful as well if you want ti talk about the letters.

Also - having taught my own four kids and tutored struggling readers in school, it is not little things like "muh" that cause problems reading. It is bad habits like guessing, not learning how to deal with diphthongs, asking kids to write a lot when they still struggle with spelling and the physical act of writing, disassociating reading and writing, memorizing words rather than decoding, and especially, not enough practice, often due to reading books with very controlled vocabulary or getting stuck on things like graphic novels. Add to all that, not reading them interesting books that target their understanding rather than reading level.

All stuff that happens in schools, rather than parents making horrible "mistakes" with phonics.