I made up some lovely (and FREE!) printable alphabet playdough mats. This week Carter was making his name letters out of playdough.įirst things first, whip up a batch of my Ultimate No Cook Playdough! Learning the various sounds letters can make will come further down the road. Sound out your little one’s name learning each and every sound.ĭon’t worry about introducing the fact that letters can make various sounds - “C” can say /c/ and /s/ - for little Carter, it just says /c/! English is a very tricky language to learn so we start by keeping things as simple as possible. Play with those letters lots and then add in the matching “Big” letters. Introduce your child’s name letters as they are written. Sure sing the ABCs and play with letters in all sorts of fun ways!īut then focus on letters slow and steady. What I have found, me – the horn tooting Reading Specialist, is that teaching letters slowly and thoroughly in all capacities is best. I loved researching and digging into this topic. How some little one’s pick it up so naturally while others struggle. I have always found teaching letters, sounds, and learning to read very fascinating. It is a pretty fancy title and I worked away researching and learning for many additional courses after I became a teacher to earn it. Not to toot my own horn (but sound the trumpets because I am going to), I am in fact a Reading Specialist. Enough opinions to make your head spin in fact. There are lots of opinions on how to introduce letters, whether you should introduce lowercase or uppercase first, and when you should teach the sounds and sound blending. We have been focusing on the lower case letters first, and will add in the upper case matching letters for his name before moving on to the next grouping of letters. Little Carter is working away on learning his name letters. I am sure you know the order by now, but if you happen to be new here, please check out the BEST order for teaching preschoolers their letters (and why and how!) in this post: Which order to Teach the Alphabet With Carter, we are working through the letters and their sounds in a very specific order. I wanted to share this awesome (and FREE!) resource with you as well.įirst of all, let’s chat teaching preschoolers their letters. Using Printable Alphabet Playdough Mats was the activity of the week this time. Learning letters and the alphabet through PLAY is the name of the game right now for little Carter.
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