DD is 2.5 and showing interest in letters. We have letter magnets on the fridge and she can pick out a few of the letters but not all-a, b, c, d, e, g, h, m, o. So far I've just told her the sounds of letters she's asked about and told her words that begin with those sounds. However, when she's playing with them she'll say 'mummy' when she points to the 'm' rather than actually saying 'm', and so on. If I say, 'show me a 'd' for dog or daddy' she'll point to it, but if I point to it and ask 'what letter is this?' she'll either say nothing at all, or say 'daddy'.
It's occurred to me that I'd like her to learn the alphabet and to read etc in the way that will be taught at school and pre-school so that she's not confused. I also don't want to teach her anything wrong. For instance I didn't learn phonics myself and am not totally clear on some of them...how do you differentiate between k and c? And is x 'ex'?
What makes it easiest when children start learning this stuff at school? Is there a particular system that's best to use? She goes to nursery one day a week but they're not doing anything like this and looked at me a bit askance when I asked for their advice. She's in the toddler room and I think they thought I was a really pushy parent trying to get her reading ASAP. In reality I just want to encourage what she's interested in and do it in a way that won't make things more complicated later on!
Any advice gratefully received.