In fact, our flexible Letter of the Week curriculum is my most popular resource. Just open the file to read on your computer, or print and bind for an easy-to-use guide! Anna Geiger is a former teacher MEd. She is the writer and creator of The Measured Mom , where she supports parents and teachers with free printables, hands-on lessons, and other teaching resources.
Only use capital letters for names, places, first letter of a sentence etc. I agree with some of your points, but not all. If parents start teaching the alphabet at a young age, there is plenty of time for children to learn to write their name in a capital and lowercase letters before kindergarten.
I understand that it may work very well for some students. So important! I also agree that slowing down with the alphabet song is important when children are ready to learn the alphabet.
I also appreciate your point about using capitals and lowercase letters when modeling writing for our children. Hi Anna, Thanks for your reply! I use some of them with my tutoring students! I thought it was ok to teach kids to write the upper case letter fist, since must of the upper case letter are easier to write than the lower case. There is no need. Kids usually begin blossoming towards readiness skills at 4 not typically before then.
But when they are ready you will know. Learning to listen for sounds and rhyming are equally as important as letter recognition. It works like a charm. Now to get my students to stop saying H-Ji long I sound -K…etc. They blend the H and I sound to say Ji. I love this! We started a letter of the week a couple weeks ago but this would have been nice to have taught a long time ago. I agree with the comment about kids blossoming about age 4. The idea that exposure is among the most important first steps is one of the ideas I hold most true.
As a first grade teacher, it is almost impossible for me to unteach a child who writes his names in all caps and then needs to write it properly with a capital first letter and the rest lowercase. I saw that you do it out of order. Any advice?? Hello, Olga! You asked for advice about teaching the alphabet out of order. Personally, the only reason I do that is because I teach letter writing alongside the letter, and I wanted to start with the letters that were easiest to write.
One thing I would say for kids having trouble is to do a lot of open-ended FULL alphabet activities mixed in. For example, hide plastic letters in a tub of rice or oatmeal. They find the letters and then go match them to printables on a table. I am a very young teacher from IRAN. I do not know how to thank you because of your ways to teach English. I really love you. Thanks for the great resources…I will be spending a lot of time pinning here!
Mainly -make sure you point out the difference between upper and lower case letters, also, point out the different fonts that may confuse the children. Teaching alphabets to kids is indeed a very difficult task. Thanks for sharing the lovely but very useful points through your blog.
I feel reading out, singing or any other form of communication with the toddlers works best in the learning process for your kid. I agree, Rakesh — reading aloud to kids is one of the best teaching tools we have.
I love singing with my little ones, too. I have a set of Little Letter Books full of songs and rhymes for toddlers. Is there a Category covering that? Somewhere I could search or should be directed to when clicking that photo?
Hi, Jeanine! Thank you so much for this! Oh my goodness! Thank you for taking the time to do this! You just made my life easier! Thanks again! I hope you keep coming back for more ideas! I am going to TRY to start doing letter of the week activities with my students.
So if I would start these activities I should start with the letter E? I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing these awesome, hands on, and developmentally appropriate activities for FREE!
You choose to help teachers by providing FREE resources, thank you!! Hello, Megan! If you do this order you can follow along with me since it will be a while until we get through the entire alphabet. We also talk about the entire alphabet quite often, so this was not confusing for them. I was a teacher before blogs became big — that would have been helpful!
I will be trying to follow your letter sequence as we learn to write each letter. I just noticed that the sequence is for upper case letters. When do you introduce lower case letters? I want to try teaching to see if I can do ok with homeschool in the future. I am hoping this will start with good things. Hi Heather, I have not had to introduce lower case letters in an organized way because after my kids start learning capital letters, they naturally start to recognize lower case letters when we see them in books, on signs, on toys, etc.
A great way to teach upper and lower case matching if a child is not picking them up naturally is with games. You can find lots of ideas on my Pinterest board. Let me know if you have more questions! In between you can have other letters in the alphabet shown, but not all of them. Ask the preschoolers to put down their block letters in the right sequence, using the pre-filled in letters as clues. You can take your weekly letter curriculum a step further by creating a box that children can open to discover objects that relate to that letter.
This can be a fun and whimsical way to have your children get excited about the week ahead, and work together to come up with an answer. Since repeating a letter over and over again can get boring, you can mix it up a little by bringing in related lessons. Then, throughout the day, teach interdisciplinary subjects that still relate. This blogger lists a whole bunch of crafts you can you incorporate into your letter learning. You get the idea…. Flashcards are a great memorization tool, and the alphabet is all about memorizing.
However, this teacher warns that sometimes, pre-made flashcards can get really confusing. First, children need to recognize and know the alphabet. Use the simplest flash cards, with the simplest pictures of the objects and animals that preschoolers can recognize. That said, sometimes you want to use lowercase and uppercase letters in your flashcards…and yes, that can be confusing for the very young learners, especially when the upper and lowercase look so different, but are called the same thing.
Chall, Jeanne S. Learning to read: The great debate. New York: McGraw-Hill. Chomsky, Carol Approaching reading through invented spelling. Resnick and P. Weaver eds. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates. Read, Charles Harvard Educational Review , 41, Leave this field empty. Thanks so much for the post.
Can you tell me which alphabet you use in the program? My class has begun writing their names with an uppercase first letter and then lowercase letters. I want to send home the accurate name for parents to reference if they want to work at home as well. Jamie, The letters in the Pre-reading Level were done by artists and graphic designers.
However, I have found that the Comic Sans font, which is pretty much available on every computer, is very similar and a nice, simplified font for children just learning to write letters. I teach 4 and 5 year olds in Prek. We are struggling with ours letter recognition skills this year! I hope you find the many printables and activities on this blog post helpful for your students, Debbie.
I really need help with my five year whose about to turn six with letters sounds and words. Tammie, I think you may find our How to Teach Phonograms blog post helpful.
It goes over how to teach the phonograms starting with letter sounds and includes a few printable games for making the review fun!
However, for a more step-by-step easy to teach method, take a look at All About Reading. I hope your child or children enjoy it! I love that your little is so excited about letters that he yells them out, Tiffany! Yes, I do think these activities would please him. Thank you for letting us know your boys have enjoyed the building blocks activity! That is the greatest. We finished up Homeschool for the year today. I am also eager to try that hungry little puppy and those tactile letters!
All sound terrific! Thanks for the resources. Feed the puppy game looks like it will keep my youngest interested in the letters. I love reading all the tips. I have loved the free resources and games that are supplemental to the pre reading program! My son is 3 days into level 1 and has already read his first short story and now decides any word he sees! So brilliant! Thank you for the Alphabet progress chart. We are in love with this program!
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