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ETC or HWT for 3yo?


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Which would you choose? I have a 3yo begging to learn how to write letters. He's also beginning to sound out simple 2-letter blends. He knows all his letters and sounds very well. He also LOVES workbooks. We do 2-3 pgs a day now and he'd probably do more if I let him. 

I'm not sure if I should get the "Get Ready for the Code" A, B, C books or the Pre-K HWT book or both? We're already doing the HWT activities (wet/dry chalk/homemade letter "blocks"/etc). TIA!

 

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I have a 3 yr. old. She's my second child, so I bought her the same books that I liked for her older brother. She used most of Kumon "mazes" (with the cat on the cover), to practice control the pencil, then kumon "alphabet games" to practice tracing the letters, now hwt kinder. You can mostly tell what her letters are. Next she'll get Singapore earlybird, which is really math, but it's all just practice with pencilwork. After that there will be a lot of "how to draw" stuff, especially Jann Bretts chicken. Then straight on to hwt sentence books. She's also doing readingeggs to learn how to read. I let her go as far as she can until she gets frusterated, then reset the program. She "does school" 2,3 days a week at this point for 15-20 minutes. I never let her scribble the workbook. If she wants to scribble I take it away and she has plenty of paper for that.

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My eldest took a long time from knowing his letter sounds to be able to blend, since yours is not having that problem he might find ETC A,B,C book a bet boring. If writing is your main focus I'd go with HWT.

 

As far as a work book for phonics, I'd go with Plaid Phonics Level A. If he's handwriting isn't there give him an alphabet stamp set to do his answers with until his penmanship is up to the same speed.

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