Learn the ALPHABET

Like everything else in life, we start with small steps first!

By offering a variety of creative flashcards, music, and manipulatives

students will master learning letters and letter sounds.

Common Core State Standards
K.RF.1D
K.RF.3A-B

Building a Train of Letters

Identifying individual letters with fun foam letters.

Identifying  lowercase letters by name.

Alphabet magnets also provide a great hands-on way to introduce the
 alphabet and group and organize the letters in a number of ways.

These work well for practicing sequencing of the alphabet.

Activities For Teaching the Alphabet

Go To: Action Alphabet

 Pronouncing sounds commonly associated with corresponding letters.

Identifying upper- and lowercase letters by name.

                                   

Large Flashcards to provide systematic and explicit instruction, 
for modeling letter formation.

Wooden Blocks that offer visual and tactile explorations of letters.

Double-sided flashcards that give the children the opportunity to

explore and discover the alphabet. 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom-a new adventure for the letters.

ALPHABET ARC

This is the suggested sequence for the activities:

1. Place the letters in the middle (under the arc but on the paper).

2. Have the student turn all the letters right side up.

3. Ask the student to find the letter A and to place it on the printed A on the letter arc.  Continue doing this in alphabetical order until you get to Z. (Challenge students by asking them to slide the letters out of order until all letters are covered.)

4. They must recite each letter as they slide it into place.

5. Then they pick them up one at a time, say the letter's name again, and put it

back in the jar.

6. The goal is for them to complete this in less than 3 minutes.

Fewer letters on small charts are

practical for new beginners. 

Purpose of letter arcs:

• Teach the number of letters in the alphabet
• Teach the beginning, middle and ending letters of the alphabet
• Provide an introduction to the location of letters in the alphabet (For example, "Is letter r close to the beginning, middle or end of the alphabet?")
• Lead to knowledge of alphabetical order necessary for dictionary skills. (For example, when a student looks for a word beginning with letter G, should he look closer to the front, middle or back of the dictionary?)
• Help children learn the order of the alphabet without singing the song