We are going to do 2-3 letters a week and just incorporate them in to our themes/crafts. Do you think it is fine to do the letters out of order? Or should I do them in order? My oldest knows the letters very well. My youngest is just turning 2 so he is still learning them. He seems to know them out of order though I didn’t want to confuse him. Any ideas?

By the time my son was 2, he could ‘read’ letters (identify at sight), upper case primarily and some lower (mostly, because they looked like upper!) When we started focusing on letters and the sound of letters, he really started to improve his speech (he was a late talker). To do this, we would just talk about letters we saw everywhere – cereal boxes, on signs, etc. It was very helpful.

He loves letters. He likes reading them, guessing them, matching them. I’m now working on lower case more because he says all the letters in words he sees and many are a mix of upper/lower. Thanks for your tips about lower helping with phonics, I hadn’t realized that. I also hope to start the French alphabet this summer.

Letters and the alphabet are huge things around here!