how to introduce my 22 mos old alphabets-small letters?

Question

My daughter knows all the alphabets-capital letters A-Z since she was 20 mos. now, whenever she sees words, she'll name each letter. but when it comes to small letter, she gets confused and asks me "what's this?" i told her it was "a", then she said "no!". she pointed at "A" and said "this is A!"
she's very interested in reading.
what is the best way to teach her small letters w /o confusing her with the capitals?

thank's for all ur advice!

Answer 1

get the leap frog movies "Letters Factory" and "Words Factory 1&2" my daughter is 17 months and she loves them and had been watching them since before she was 1...she cant say them in order yet but she can say some of the alphabet

Answer 2

Yeah my 4 yr old does that to me still....I started buying him workbooks that focus mainly on the alphabet and shows them the capital and lower case letters next to eachother, its sort of helping,but it doesnt help that when it comes to kids a lot of things are in capital letters. His daycare is teaching that too and I think he's starting to believe it...because its coming from someone else. She's almost 2 yrs old....she's smart,don't push her or she'll go the opposite way and just stop. That's not a big deal right now,she's not even 2 yet,just be happy that she can do all that she does. 4 year old kindergarten will help with all that too,when it comes time for that.

Answer 3

That's amazing that your daughter can recognize the letters already! Try telling her that one is the Big Mommy A and the other is the little baby a. That's something she can relate to. Eventually drop the "Mommy & baby" and just call them big and little. The next thing to work on would be what's called letter-sound recognition. Use her name and the names of family members to help her. For example, Mommy's name says M-M-M-M-Mommy! The M-M-M-M-M sound looks like this - its the letter M! Use her name first, then yours, then friends'. Keep up the good work!

Answer 4

A- Abdullah the Butcher B- Bruiser Brody C- Chavo Guererro D- Dean Malenko E- part F- Fritz Von Erich G- staggering George H- Harley Race I- Ivan Putski J- Jimmy Snuka ok- Kerry Von Erich L- Luna Vachon M- Medusa N- Nick Bockwinkel O- Owen Hart P- Perry Saturn Q- Queen Sharmell R- Ricky Steamboat S- Shawn Michaels T- Tony Atlas U- suited Warrior V- Virgil W- Warlord X- X-percentY- Yokozuna Z- Zack Gowen

Answer 5

What I did was had my daughter trace the letters. Big A, little a. And now they have books dedicated to each letter, so she got to see it in writing, story form and that helped her see how they were related. I would also show her the work books that I would buy for her to practice on and now that she has begun preschool, she tells me that she knows that the big A has a little a, because she sees it at school.

Answer 6

i know that there are many childrens' books out there that illustrate the alphabet (A is for Alligator type of thing) but they will make sure to give several styles of the letter A - like upper case, lower case, and italics or something.

try reading through that with her so she gets used to the idea that the same letter can be represented in several related but different ways.

Answer 7

See if you can find flash cards that have lower & upper case together- either side-by-side, or double faced. While you're doing those cards, teach her the letter sounds. After she has a grip on the sounds, you can get her reading by sounding out small words. That's how I taught my kids to read.

Answer 8

teach her the difference. Big A, little a