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3 Cheers for English!

The alphabet is not a simple collection of letters and sounds. The ABCs are the building blocks of language. In order to become literate, children need to recognize each letter, both in order and out of order, as well as the sounds connected with that letter.

Once the children have that knowledge, they are on the road of reading and writing.

Letter and sound recognition is one of the best predictors of reading success.

  

Here you will find general ideas to help children:

·         associate letters to sounds

·         differentiate letters from words

·         form small words with different letter fonts

·         learning each other's names

·         make distinctions between letters and words

·         practise letter formation

·         make letter sound associations as they use pointers to read ABC strips

·         make attempts to 'track' the print and make one to one correspondence

·         match letters to pictures of objects that begin with that letter/sound

·         do left to right progression

·         match two pictures that begin with the same consonant letter/sound

·         match upper case and lower case letters

·         place letters in alphabetical order

·         practice ABC order as they arrange letters in ABC order, identify missing letters, and connect the dots from A to Z

·         recognize that print has meaning

·         recognize upper and lower case letters

·         sort letters by colour, upper and lower case

·         sing, chant, rhyme, walk the alphabet

Suggested activities to do during the week:

Each week you can focus on one of the letters of the alphabet. You can explore and review the letter during the whole year but that week, that letter will have a special attention in your group.

How can you do it? By building sensory systems it means that to promote flexible learning of letters children must acquire knowledge of letters in many different ways.

You can focus on:

·        The name of the letter (Tell the name of it)

·        The way the letter looks (Talk about the shape the letter has. Has it got circles? Tails?)

·        The sound the letter makes

·        Tell the way the letter sounds.

·        The feel and look of the letter in mouths (Focus on pronunciation of the sound. Where is the tongue? Where are your teeth?)

·        The feel of the letter in the hand (touch an apple)

·        The taste of the letter in the mouth (eat an apple)

·        The smell of the letter (smell an apple)

·        The movement of the letter as it is written

·        A word or anchor that children associate with that letter, so children can use it as a memory tool (apple)

·        The way it looks in a word

·        The movement of the letter as it is written

·        A word associated with the letter (the word apple)

·        A picture associated with the letter (the picture of an apple)

·        A name associated with the letter (apple)

To do beforehand:

Send home the new unit note.

Prepare the newsletter for the theme.

Check supplies.

Print the reproducibles for the week.

Make enough copies for your children.

Prepare the home school connection stuff.

Make a beautiful Bulletin Board to decorate your class.

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