My kid goes to reception coming fall, and he knows less than half of the alphabets. I am trying to teach him but I feel that he's having a hard time remembering the letters and making links inside the brain. He recognizes numbers (1-20) pretty easily, so I thought he's ready but apparently he's not.. He turns five coming September, and I am a bit anxious because he's a bilingual and his spoken English is also quite behind his peers who speak only English. Do most children know alphabets before going to reception?