Early reading for 2 year old

[LissyGlitter]

My dd is just turned 2, and can recognise the letters M and O and the number 2-how do we encourage this and help her to learn to read?

personally, I don't think she'll gain anything from learning to read early.

just keep doing what you're doing - talking about everything that you see. She does't know yet what the letters mean - she just recognises them as shapes

Don't try and push her too early, let her learn at her own pace, as she is obviously doing. If you want to help nursery rhymes with numbers and books where you point the words as you read them, but to be honest she probably will just get bored and think your a burk

There's a difference between recognition and understanding. My 22 month old recognises all of her numbers and a lot of letters, but it's just a repetition thing, it's not reading.

Just enjoy her, chat to her lots, read to her and it will come in its own time.

Sing to her and with her
Read to her
Read the same books over and over again
Read books with lots of rhymes and lots of rhythm
Say rhymes to her and with her
Point out her name on her door/coat etc.
Sing some more
Read some more
Say more rhymes

Please don't start "teaching" her to read.

Mine can recognise Asda, Morrisons and McDonalds . Doesn't mean he can read or that I want to teach him, its just recognition.

Littlefish has some good ideas above.

LOL at suwoo

DD is 3yo, and can recognise the number 1,2,3,4,5,6 and put them in their places on the velcro board thingymajiggy...

She also does a lot of 'pretend' reading..

Suwoo - SNAP!

DD amazed us at just 2 when she started shouting out "Waitrose" "Tescos" "Marks and Spencers" when we passed the appropriate lorries on the motorway!

I think Suwoo is right that this was just pattern recognition.

Agree with the others about following your child's need - but some children do want to start learning pre reading skills at that age, and if yours is one of them, then just follow her lead!

With DD1, we just got her the jolly phonics books and put them on her bookshelf (She was a bit older - about 2.6 I think) and we just used to look at letters and then spot them around and about. We made it into a game, a game that she wanted to play all the time (used to bore me senseless at times, but she loved it). At about 3, she then started asking more about words, so we read simple CVC words, then we got some simple CVC books. I think she was reading ORT stage 4/5 by the age of 4 (but before she started school). If your child wants to, then there's no reason why not - for some children reading is their thing (it was my thing too as a child!), as long as you follow your child's lead, then you won't go far wrong!

HTH

Just read with her lots. Play games with letters on the fridge, all those sorts of things.

If she is keen to learn then let her learn. My little bro was desperate to know how to read, he knew that the shapes he saw everywhere meant something and he was determined to find out what. He could read fluently, and I mean fluently, by the time he was 4. Hasn't done him any harm at all

just enjoy time with her...my ds is read to every night and can "read" certain words like his name, my name, numbers, shapes, can count to 10 on his fingers etc....he was 2 in feb but I just induldge him and draw and read and write with him...recognition is a great place to start.....he can now draw cirlces....as others say let her lead

There was a similar thread the other day
Might be useful
here

Read lots of picture books, give her board books, talk about the pictures, characters and events, keep it fun.

Pre reading skills, and enjoyment.

Apostrophe is right about giving lots of experience to enhance pre reading skills, and enjoyment, so she is a reader for life. Not just a word barker.

Apostrophe - it certainly wasn't meant to be patronising. However, I've taught many children in Reception and above who have been put off reading by being overly taught at home from too young an age. I agree that learning to read is a continuum, but in my opinion, the way to support a child's readiness to read, and foster a love of reading, is to do the sort of things I've suggested in my earlier post.

Lissyglitter was referring to her dd's letter recognition in her OP, which is only a very small part of pre-reading. I was trying to steer her away from simply teaching her dd more letters/sounds, and back towards the crucial experiences of hearing stories, singing songs, saying rhymes etc.

Don't push her. 2 is to early to learn to read. Just enjoy looking at books with her.

Well done you, you're doing a good job.

Do 'teach' her to read. Not with a blackboard and mortar board but in the way you must have been doing already and all the stuff above, reading, talking, explaining everything, even things you think she'd never understand, name and explain everything and singing. Although I'm loathe to suggest TV as one of the ways to wisdom, Fun with Phonics, recordable on bbc2/cbeebies really works if they like it, my son absolutely loves it. Animal flash cards, C is for cat.. All of the above builds up a framework and you promote cross-referencing, pattern understanding, and most importantly the joy of learning and it won't be bad for them. What I mean is: Do teach in a way that is appropriate for them.

I find the best things are foam letters and numbers that you can stick on the bath and surrounding tiles. My DD is almost 2 and can recognise about half of the alphabet, but only because we've been playing with them for a couple of months. Making letters into words is a completely different thing and I agree that this is an age where they lead on that. DD also lined up her maisy number blocks in the right order from 1 to ten the other day - I thought that was amazing but then she did a poo on the floor and I lost the enthusiasm I had. Think I'd swap an understanding for the potty over words and numbers at the moment!