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My daughter is memorizing words instead of learning phonemes. She can identify words but not letters
I know it's weird. I'm really very good with languages b/c I memorize words and can decode patterns
and such fairly fast. I've a degree in Russian......not that THAT has landed me a job. Anyways Early Intervention has
suggested I try to eliminate that and focus on phonemes........I'll be happy to focus on phonemes(letters/letter sounds) but I think
that is a total mistake eliminating the other way of learning. I want to teach her my systems for learning language.....she is 2.

Nobody else has ever come close to learning language or viewing it the way I do but it looks like my daughter might see things the way I do.........I couldn't be prouder of her.

Apparently I skipped words and went straight to sentences. Good luck teaching her.

I was taught to read by the traditional phonics system. I did quite well with it, and don't feel it should be deviated from unless the child proves to have an extreme amount of difficulty with it, and appears to learn better by another method.

I could really use someone who can read Russian, on occasion.

she can identify words at 2? that's pretty good!! yeah, it's important to teach them phonics but i don't think it would help her any to eliminate what she is already doing as it's obviously working for her. when you start teaching her phonics, show her the letters and get her to repeat the letter sound rather than the letter name.

My son sort of did this. He went from not being able to say mama, to speaking in 5-word sentences, almost overnight. He's having a bit of trouble with reading now (kindergarten), but I think the reason is similar to his speech delay. He doesn't like saying things the wrong way and wants to know them perfectly before he says them. When he reads words phonetically, he often becomes very upset because it doesn't sound exactly as the word should in his mind. He does so much better when he has a word memorized, which he does very well.

I think learning phonetics is important in a conceptual way, but for practicing, I think it can be better to go with what's comfortable and natural. I don't think abandoning something that is working is a very good idea, but that's just my own, unprofessional opinion.

I wasn't able to learn to read phonetically. I have zero objection to her doing phonetics but I think we should respect the system she is using and help her so that she doesn't have the same miserable struggle I did. It's the same language systems I have for figuring out novel languages. She could go much faster than I did if I help her.......I can even show her how to do it so it looks like she has phonics.......

Learning phonetically is only a deterrent to reading speed.

i was thinking about this and i think my daughter may have done the same thing. well, when she turned 2 she had all her letters memorized because of the book 'dr.seuss's ABCs' i never really put much effort into teaching it to her but i read along with my finger for her while i read her the book. she started kindergarden when she was three and after only a couple weeks of being there i got a call from the teacher asking if i knew she could read. she seems to have a huge advantage when it comes to reading compared to my other 'normal' kids and my AS son, all of whom are no where near reading on their own. the book may have taught her to identify each letter by it's name but it's not exactly a phonics book. i think she memorized words as i pointed at them for her and spent a lot of time reading to her everyday. i just figured she was too young to memorize the words but she was always bringing me books and wanted me to point out the words so i did.