What's better to start with, vowels or consonants?

Hello. I just saw your post when doing a preschool search. I know that your post is kind of old, but I just wanted to respond to it. My daughter is three years old, just turned in Jan. Anyways, we are teaching her how to read. What we are doing is starting with both vowels and consonants at the sametime. I would recommend getting the LeapFrog DVDs. I bought a four pack of LeapFrog DVDs from Overstock.com. We started out with the Letter Factory DVD, as I was having a hard time keeping my daughter interested in learning the sounds that each letter made. She loved the DVD and learned and remember what every letter made after only one watchhing. Of course, I paused it after each letter and reviewed it with her, but the DVD really helped. The next DVD in the set was a word one. I think it might have bene something like the Word Factory or something, sorry but I don't have the DVDs in front of me right now. Anyways, when I watched that DVD I actually learned a bit myself. They started out with the same ending words. For instance, the DVD starts out by foucusing on words that end with AT, like cat, hat, bat, and so on. So that is what we have been doing. Focusing on the similar ending letters. It makes it easier for her to learn how the words sound because the ending letters are still fresh in her mind. Good luck!

Good question. I'd probably go with vowels. They seem a little easier to understand.