AAS for a tot

Hi! My name is Cheryl and I homeschool all my children. I have a 10 yo, 9 yo, and a 6 yo on the program. The older two just started Level 2 and are flying through it. The 6 yo is taking his time. He is just learning how to read so I'm going back through some lessons until I feel he gets it.

On to my toddler, She is a bright 3 year old (Oct 18), so obviously I won't be doing Level 1 with her till later, but I'm wondering about teaching her the sounds of the letters as AAS suggests. Why not nip it in the bud from the get go? I thought I would try it and see how she does with it. We will be starting with the vowels, for one vowel per week. I was just wondering if anyone else has done this with a toddler and how was your experience.

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Permalink Reply by Merry on October 23, 2009 at 9:55pm: I haven't, but I was wondering if you saw the phonogram progress chart that you can download for free? It's in the Level 1 Group, just under the welcome message in the series of links there. Might add a fun element to this for your dd!

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Permalink Reply by momtohjjnc on October 24, 2009 at 8:07am: Oh thanks, I haven't explored the site that far until now! Now here is another question, should I just teach the vowels or go through the alphabet as is since she doesn't know the alphabet yet? I wanted to go through the alphabet daily and sing the alphabet song, so I think concentrating on the vowels as a letter per week wouldn't confuse her. Gosh, you would think after doing three boys from day 1, I would know what I'm doing. I just don't want her to struggle with spelling like the boys are, especially my little guy.

Thanks for your input.
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Permalink Reply by Merry on October 24, 2009 at 8:29pm: If you look in the front of your Level 1 book, there is a section called "Familiarize yourself with the Basic Phonograms" around page 9 or 10. In there it talks about which letters should not be introduced together to minimize confusion. Other than that, I think I'd introduce both vowels and consonants as you go--the consonants are a bit easier, so they might be a nice break inbetween some of the vowels anyway. You could do a letter a week for 26 weeks and have a fun preschool curriculum, have her make letters out of playdough or color a letter, make a collage of things that begin with that same sound--things to cut & paste, have her play with the sounds etc...

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