22month old loves numbers and letters. Advice for development skills

[GemzJ]

Hello! My LO is obsessed with numbers and letters and I’m wondering what I can do to help her develop in the area she loves. Maybe advice on early reading?
she’s currently 22 months but has known numbers and letters for months now. I have just learnt that’s pretty good for her age, so would love some ideas on learning games that will help her more.
Thank you

Orchard Toys are great for games/puzzles with letters and numbers.

Does she know her letter sounds (ahh, buh, cuh) or just the letter names (a, bee, cee)? She'll need letter sounds for reading so you can go through all of those with her as a next step. The jolly phonics songs are good for this, available in YouTube.

If she already knows letter sounds then the next step is blending; smoothing the sounds together to make a word e.g. c-a-t. You can practice this just day to day when chatting "oh look a cat, c-a-t'. Orchard toys have games for blending too. Or you could focus on learning both upper and lower case letters (matching the babies to their grown ups).

Where is she with her numbers? Can she do simple addition (what is one more/one less)?

Just let her play.

Dd1 loved letters and numbers and decided her favourite game was typing "like daddy" on the computer at about 20 months. I spent two days with her asking how to write various words, and me pointing to each key in turn and saying the letter sound. By then she knew all her sounds, so I could lie back on the sofa and spell for her. Within a week and she was typing short sentences.

This was because she was interested, and found a game she liked which taught it. I never thought when she started it that it was to teach her; it was a side effect of something she chose to do.

Just let her point them out. You can count when going up/down stairs. Buses have numbers on them, letters on anything written etc.
If she's interested she will lead you and learn more as she does.