9/19/2023 0 Comments Gifted 18 month old checklist![]() Parents complain that there two-year-old who knows letter sounds will not read. It is awesome, but not remarkable or abnormal.Īnd, recognizing letters in nowhere close to reading. So, if you toddler is spending a lot of time with letters, please do not be surprised when they learn them. It is just most parents and their children couldn't care less about them. In my experience young toddlers will memorize letters if given the opportunity. In my experience it really is no big deal. And it's not true that you can just teach it, either - the child must have a mind ready to be taught. It's hard and very few children can do it at 18 months and it's pretty close to reading. The child needs to be able to do "pattern recognition" - recognize letters that are "burried" in noise. It's not only about matching shapes to sounds either. It's memorizing 26 letter names.Īctually reading at 18 months is a much higher bar.īut even reading at 18 months is not an absolute prognostication of testing gifted later on.īut it's not just about memory. like the tiger mom daughter.Įven that, though, is not a huge achievement. ![]() ![]() Not repeat them in order but recognize them individually. There are kids who actually know the letters at 18 months. But those who don't aren't necessarily behind and could even be verbally gifted themselves, just not showing it at an early age. ![]() not being force fed the alphabet day in day out) probably do have more advanced oral language skills than those who don't. However, in general kids who can repeat the letters in order having only heard them a few times (i.e. It doesn't necessarily mean that the child is advanced. Anonymous wrote:But, I mean, parents who say their kid is gifted because they knew their alphabet at 18 months are just wrong, right?īeing able to memorize the names of the letters in order is a pretty low bar. ![]()
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