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50 ABC Letters and Sounds Games • Kids Activities Blog

Today we have a whole bunch of alphabet fun with letter and sounds learning games and activities for toddlers and preschoolers to help you young students prepare to read with fun pre-reading playful learning ideas.

ABC Games & Alphabet Sounds

Many parents have kids that are soon to enter kindergarten for the first time and are wondering what their kids should know before they head out to school on their own.

As a mom who once taught Kindergarten, I always wanted to make sure my kids are well-prepared and ready to begin their school career with a bit of an advantage by knowing their letters and sounds.

Related: Grab our free Kindergarten readiness checklist as a guide

I have seen the value in children knowing their letters early.

That said, I also recognize that kids are kids, and I want to make sure they have time to play – both independently and with me.

Let’s learn our alphabet through playing games!

Learning Through Alphabet Games

Children acquire knowledge through play, so learning letters at our house is rarely a sit down structured time.

It’s a time of play and games!

The kids have fun and don’t even realize they are learning at the same time. I don’t believe we should leave teaching up to the schools. You get the great honor of being an educator of your child, and you can supplement what is happening at school by engaging your child in enjoyable yet educational ways.

Related: Check out our huge abc letters resource that has letter activities, letter crafts, letter printables and more for every letter of the alphabet!

I hope these resources help you feel equipped to take the reins in your own child’s education.

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Let’s play a hands on letter game!

Hands On Letter Games

1. Letter Toss Game

Muffin Tin Learning – Want to make learning fun? This game involving throwing pennies and will keep your kids engaged. They will barely know that this is actually a lesson.

2. Growing Letters Game

Alphabet Flower Garden – This garden is full of letters and learning opportunities. It is definitely a great way to explore and grow in alphabet knowledge.

3. Unlimited ABC Games for Kids

ABC Mouse – This site gives kids tons of alphabet and phonics practice through interactive games and printables.

4. Matching Letter Game

Magnetic Alphabet Board – This letter matching activity is self-contained and is a tool to get kids to match up letters and help with identification.

5. Touch and Feel the Alphabet Game

Play Dough and Magnet Letters – Letting kids explore using their senses is a great way to learn. Play Dough is a tactile way to watch this happen.

–>Need a Set of Alphabet Magnets? I like this Magnetic Letters Alphabet Fridge Magnets Set that comes in a handy carrying tub.

6. The Great Alphabet Race

Race the Alphabet – Do you have race tracks and a child that loves playing with cars? This activity is for you! If you don’t have your own track, here’s another version.

Let’s have some fun with preschool learning games & our ABC’s.

Preschool Alphabet Games

7. Fishing for Letters

Magnet Letter Fishing – Take your magnet letters and make a simple fishing pole. With a pond full of letters, your kids will have a lot of fun casting their line for another catch.

8. Pirate Vowel Game

Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop – Your little pirate will have fun learning his or her vowels be playing this game.

9. Letter Stacking Game

ABC Letter Stack Game – Stacking up letters has never been so fun. They get to stack and stack until they fall, which I am sure will become the favorite part.

Related: Use these with our playful preschool homeschool curriculum

10. It Begins With…

Initial Sounds Blackout Game – Want kids to be able to identify the beginning sounds of words? This fun game will help them do exactly that.

–>Need a Wooden Alphabet Set with Flashcards? I really love the cuteness of this Tangame Wooden Magnetic Letters Alphabet Refrigerator Magnet Flash Cards for Preschool Kids that comes in a magnetic tin.

11. Letter Scavenger Hunt

Architecture Letter Scavenger Hunt – Have you seen those photos that find letters in architecture? Your kids get to go on their own letter scavenger hunt with this fun activity.

Let’s play a creative alphabet game!

Creative Letter Games for Alphabet Sounds

12. Interactive Alphabet Learning Games

A-Z Letter Learning Activities – This post brings you over 90 activities for each and every letter of the alphabet. What a great resource!

13. Climb the Word Ladder

Word Ladder – Kids get to “climb” to the top of the ladder as they successfully identify letters and sounds. They don’t need to worry if they “fall,” they have the opportunity to try again.

14. Flashlight Alphabet Game

Flashlight Alphabet Game – My kids are obsessed with flashlights. I know my preschooler would love this game!

–>Need Foam Alphabet Letters for Practice? This Gamenote Classroom Magnetic Alphabet Letters Kit comes in a plastic organization case and magnet board and would be great for home too.

15. Make a Letter Game

Letter Formation Activity – Using materials you probably have at home, your kids will have a lot of fun forming their letters.

16. Hungry Hungry Letters Game

Alphabet Monster – This hungry monster will only eat letters if you can say the name or sound of a letter. What a fun craft to make that also turns a great letter learning opportunity.

Let’s play a game that helps us learn letters!

ABC Games that Help Kids Learn Letters and Sounds

17. Let’s Host a Reading Hop

Reading Hop – This letter learning game will keep your kids active and hopping all around. If you are looking for a way to take learning outdoors, you have found it.

18. Alphabet I Spy

Alphabet “I Spy” – Take the classic and beloved game of “I Spy” and turn it into an alphabet search activity. Brilliant!

19. Can You Catch the Letters Game?

Runaway Letters Game – Your child gets a chance to grab letters and runaway while you creativity beacon the letter’s return. This is a great way for moms, dads or teachers to interact with their kids during the educational process.

–>Need a Fun ABC Game? I love this ABC Cookies Game from Goodie Games that is a fun alphabet learning game for toddlers and preschoolers.

20. LEGO Spelling

Lego Spelling – If you add letters to duplex legos, you have a great way to work on sounds and words.

21. Letters Inside of Letters Activity

Making Letters with Letters – Learning letters will be reinforced over and over again as your kids use letters from magazines to create their own larger letters.

Fun Pre-K Learning games for kids!

ABC Games for Pre-K

22. Letter Swat Game

Spider Letter Swat – Kids will enjoy learning their letters as they swat away at the flies in this entertaining game.

23. Letter Squirt Game

Squirt the Letter – This is a game I know my son, especially, would love. He loves anything squirt gun and anything water. Squirting the correct letter is right up his alley.

24. Letter Lacing Activity

Letter Lacing – This letter lacing, quiet bag activity works on fine motor skills while also developing the skills needed to develop in reading.

–>Need Letter Lacing Cards? I like this wooden set from Melissa & Doug that has both animals and letters on the sturdy lacing cards.

25. Alphabet Sounds Race

Letter Sounds Race – Get your kids moving with this letter sounds race. This is a great learning opportunity for your active kids! More alphabet sound learning activities are fun too!

26. Disappearing Letters Game

Disappearing Letters – Kids will learn to love to trace their letters as they see the trick to making them disappear.

Let’s play ABC Learning Games!

Alphabet Games for Learning

27. The Game of Bang

Bang – Bang is a letter identification game that will be a lot of fun for the little gamers in your life.

28. Letter Chomp Game

Mr. Shark Alphabet Chomper Game – I love the idea to make a shark out of an envelope in general. Add the learning aspect of having the shark chomp letters, and you have a great game.

29. Letter Tiles Activity

DIY Bananagrams Letter Tiles – Here’s a really smart way to make letter tiles. You can turn them into magnets or play the classic Bananagram game with your creation.

–>Need a Bananagram Game? Here is the original Bananagram game for kids.

30. Make Pretzel Letters

Soft Pretzel Letters – Kids can learn their letters as they have fun making pretzel dough. Through using both the sense of touch and taste, this becomes a fun activity for all.

31. Travel Alphabet Game

Alphabet Words Game – This is a learning game that can be taken anywhere. Keep your kids occupied working on their letters at restaurants, home, car rides and more.

Let’s play letter and sound games!

ABC Games for Letters and Sounds

32.

Touchy Feely Letters

Sensory Bins with Letters – Sometimes the best way to help kids learn is to let them explore. This sensory bin will help kids do just that.

33. Alphabet Seek & Find

Seek-N-Find Alphabet – This letter game is like an eye spy for letters. It involves a plastic tube (easily substituted by a water bottle), and will keep your kids searching for their letters for quite some time.

34. Letter Formation Fun

Tactile Writing – Kids learn to write letters as they use rice and paint to feel their way through the process or writing.

–>Need a Wooden Letter Matching Set? I like this durable Alphabet flash cards and wooden letter puzzle set from LiKee Alphabet.

35. Homemade Domino Letter Fun

Craft Stick Dominos – These craft stick dominos are an easy, homemade version of a domino game with a focus on learning letters and matching symbols. What a fun idea.

36. Flashcard Games

ABC Flashcards – Flashcards can be used by a variety of games and activities like flashcard basketball. These ones are free. And so are these kids alphabet cards you can download & print instantly.

Related: Here are a bunch of ideas for flash card games for kids

Let’s play some more abc games!

How to Help a Child Learn Letters and Sounds Through Play

37. Make a Sun-Powered Letter Puzzle

Make a DIY shape puzzle using the sun with alphabet letters for a really fun matching game you can play inside or out. Or use this method without the sun to make this fun abc matching game for kids.

38. Collect Alphabet Treasures

Use these free alphabet labels to create small containers for each letter of the alphabet for a special letter collection activity!

39. Make Easy Alphabet Crackers

Making alphabet crackers has never been easier or more fun!

–>Need an Alphabet Snack? I like these Happy Tot Organics ABC Multi-Grain Cookies…yum!

40. Play Alphabet Zipline!

Use these alphabet printable letters to create your own alphabet zipline in your living room. It is really fun.

41. Play a Silly Letters Game

Try these alphabet games for preschool that are full of fun and a little silly…

42. Make Pipecleaner Letters!

Try to do some fun abc formation with pasta and pipe cleaners which is a fun way to explore letter shapes.

43. Make Bathtub Alphabet Soup

Use bath letters for a big big big batch of bubblebath alphabet soup {giggle}.

44. Color a Letter Coloring Page

Letter A Coloring Page
Letter B Coloring Page
Letter C Coloring Page
Letter D Coloring Page
Letter E Coloring Page
Letter F Coloring Page
Letter G Coloring Page
Letter H Coloring Page
Letter I Coloring Page
Letter J Coloring Page
Letter K Coloring Page
Letter L Coloring Page
Letter M Coloring Page
Letter N Coloring Page
Letter O Coloring Page
Letter P Coloring Page
Letter Q Coloring Page
Letter R Coloring Page
Letter S Coloring Page
Letter T Coloring Page
Letter U Coloring Page
Letter V Coloring Page
Letter W Coloring Page
Letter X Coloring Page
Letter Y Coloring Page
Letter Z Coloring Page

45.

Let’s Play with Playdough!

These playdough pre writing activities are both fun and super hands-on learning.

Let’s make a yummy…I mean gummy…alphabet!

46. Make Gummy Letters

This sour gummy recipe makes the cutest alphabet letters to learn and eat!

47. Try a Fun Alphabet Activity Book

There are so many quality workbooks for kids on the market right now so we narrowed it down to some of our favorites that just might fit your kid.

Let’s find the letters and make pictures with crayons!

48. Color by Letter Activities for Letter Recognition Fun

We have a whole bunch of color by letter printable pages for kids that help them recognize letters while playing a game:

Color by letter – A-E
Color by letter worksheets – F-J
Coloring by letters – K-O
Color with letters – P-T
Preschool color by letter – U-Z

49. Play the Missing Letter Game

Use one of our favorite preschool games, What is Missing? and use either letter flashcards or abc fridge magnet sets to create sequencing of the alphabet and then remove a letter or two.

Let’s have fun with letter recognition!

50. Play Alphabet Beach Ball Toss

Modify our fun sight word game with letters instead of sight words. Your beach ball can be covered with the letters of the alphabet for throwing and catching learning fun.

Games for ABC Sounds

51. Learn and sing the ABC sounds song

I love this fun song from Rock ‘N Learn that goes through the entire alphabet with sounds for each of the letters.

52. Play an online ABC sounds game

Monster Mansion is a free online alphabet match game that kids can learn the abc sounds and match them with the proper letter on the proper monster!

53. Print & Play a letter sounds game

Preschool Play and Learn has a really colorful and fun letter sounds board game you can print and play at home or in the preschool classroom. Each player will pick up a card and identify the letter and /or say the sound that the letter makes.

More Learning Games from Kids Activities Blog

Now that we learned out letters, don’t miss out on our number activities for preschoolers!
When your child is ready, we have a big giant list of sight word activities that are fun too!
We have some really fun games teaching kids how to read a clock.
My favorite massive resource of fun is our kids science games here at Kids Activities Blog.
It doesn’t have to be October to play some frightful Halloween games.
Let’s play math games for kids!
If you need to work out the wiggles, we have the best indoor games for kids.

What was your favorite abc game? Did we miss some alphabet activities that you do with your kids?

‎Kids Phonics A-Z, Alphabet, Letter Sounds Learning on the App Store

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***** Parents‘ Choice Awards’ winner
***** Developed by an award-winning education studios, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling apps for kids, in cooperation with educational specialists to best prepare your children for success in preschool and kindergarten curriculum.
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Lay the basics of your child’s literacy skills with this colorful, mysterious island full of phonics sounds. Children learn and have fun tracing letters, recognizing letter sounds, matching letters, and identifying beginning sounds. Embark on the adventure with adorable Abby the Monkey and her train to discover the secret of this island!

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The best introduction to phonics reading system!
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* NOW EVEN BETTER — FABULOUS NEW ACTIVITIES ADDED!

CHILDREN LEARN TO:

* Recognize letter sounds
* Trace uppercase and lowercase letters
* Match letters
* Recognize a variety of animals
* Identify beginning sounds

PURCHASING THIS APPLICATION (FULL VERSION ONLY), YOU CAN EXPECT TO GET:
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* 90 animal pictures situated in colorful sceneries, accompanied by authentic animal sounds and phonetic sounds of the animals’ initial letters
* 21 wonderful, professionally illustrated sceneries
* 7 alphabet phonetic sectors divided according to the Montessori methodology
* A series of fun mini-games
* Reward stickers
* Surprise upon completion of all levels
* Easy-to-use, child-friendly interface
* High-quality audio spoken by a professional voice-over actress
* Friendly, encouraging environment
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Hello everyone! Are you up to an adventure? I am Abby the Monkey, the friend you know from a highly-successful application series by 22learn, and I have prepared one for you! If you want to EXPLORE a strange animal island and LEARN PHONETIC LETTER SOUNDS, you shouldn’t wait a minute, and come with me!!!

But first let me tell you a story….
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Once upon a time, there was an island, an island of indescribable beauty and magnificence. There found a shelter the animals small and large, slimy and furry, savage and tame—all protected from evil hunters and curious eyes, supplied with food from the bountiful earth. Each year, a special event was held, when one, and only one, person from the whole humankind was selected and transported to the island (blinded, to preserve the island’s secrecy) to appreciate its beauty and spread the word about it, so that the island would never be forgotten.

The legend has it, that deep inside the rocky hill on the island, a treasure is kept. Yet, no one knows its secret anymore because the last humankind representative had enraged the animals on the island, and since then, the animals decided never to invite anyone again, and the island got lost in time and space.

All that remains from our knowledge is that through the whole island, a very special train goes. The train has a mind of its own and likes it when the passengers’ names start from certain sounds! It is said, that if someone was ever capable to fulfill all the train’s wishes, the train would transport the lucky being deep inside the rocks and reveal the island’s precious treasure!
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But, you are asking, what does all this have to do with me, monkey Abby? Well, imagine what happened to me just recently! I was flying around with my plane when, out of the blue, the storm hit and my plane got lost!

And now, I am on this weird island that looks exactly like the legendary Phonics Island I told you about! Wohoo, how exciting! But I need someone to help me with all the strange tasks the train asks me to do! Do you want to be the one who will help me, and discover the island’s treasure together with me?

Thank you for your purchase!

Apr 14, 2017

Version 1.3.2

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Phonics Island - THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE your kids for READING SUCCESS!
* Based on the requests from educational professionals, we added new exciting activities and options!
* Tracing: Learn to write all uppercase and lowercase letters!
* Balloon Pop Game challenges kids to practice identifying letters that match the sounds called.
* The possibility to choose uppercase or lowercase letters. The lettercase can now be selected directly from the main menu.
* For increased learning efficiency, we added possibility to turn off "stickers" activities (you can select this option in the Settings).

Ratings and Reviews

10 Ratings

Very effective intro to phonics!!!

Very effective intro to phonics
I got this app for my 4-year-old daughter to learn letter sounds, and this app made her learn just that! The design of the app is quite delightful and child-friendly. Children who like animals will especially enjoy this app as phonemic awareness is developed through initial sounds in the names for animals. There is a variety of games to keep children interested and also reinforce their learning. My daughter loves to pop balloons with the letters called. She got so much better at quickly sounding out sounds since she got this app. Very effective for learning!

I would re-record the phonics before allowing any more downloads of this app

I deleted it and will not try it again until the phonic letter sounds are recorded to better portray the ACTUAL sounds of the letters. This is not s good learning app! This is a bad learning app for teaching the sounds of the letters to English speaking children.

Another amazing learning app for children!

22Learn has really done an outstanding job with this amazing learning app featuring the famous Abby the Monkey that my kids have come to love! They loved all the games from tracing letters, to letter matching and much more. My kids absolutely loved all the animals which really kept their interest in all the activities. The graphics are outstanding and overall is very child user friendly. The sounds are crystal clear and my kids loved being recognized for their correct answers. I highly recommend this app to everyone that has or teaches children!

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Size: 71.6 MB
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Age Rating: 4+, Made for Ages 0–5
Price: Free

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The use of the speech therapy alphabet by E.

V. Novikova in literacy classes in kindergarten

One of the most important tasks that we set, in addition to the normalization of sound pronunciation, is to prepare children for learning to read and write. Parents of children in a speech therapy group are, as a rule, very demanding on how their children can read at the end of kindergarten. The successful solution of these problems requires an innovative approach, the use of the latest developments [4]. In speech therapy groups, we used the G.A. Kashe, the only program approved by the Ministry of Education. But the order of studying sounds and letters in this program, in our opinion, is not suitable for modern children - speech pathologists. Because during the week, sounds can be studied alone, and letters are different. For example: 9week: sounds s - s` differentiation of sounds s - z - ts - sh, and we learn to write the letter "m". Week 10: sounds c`, c - c`, differentiation of sounds c` - z` - t` - u, and we learn to write the letter "I". Week 12: we study the sounds c - c`, z - z`, b. Differentiation of sounds b - p - b`, and we learn to write the letter "x". At week 6 we study the sound “yot”, and we learn to write the letter “y” at week 24, etc.

Many people use the primer J.S. Zhukova, it is good, but suitable for children with clear speech, formed phonemic hearing and high cognitive activity. Since the sound “s” is studied in the fourth lesson, the sound “r” comes in a week. Further, "sh", "l". Children of the speech therapy group at the beginning of the year simply may not have these sounds in speech. And it is logical to study letters only on the basis of well-pronounced corresponding sounds. After learning the fifth letter, the reading of words and sentences begins. Most of the children of the speech therapy group simply cannot cope with this. Many authors now offer their developments on teaching kindergarten children to read [1]. I consider very interesting classes on the development of the phonemic side of speech and teaching literacy to children of senior preschool age S. P. Tsukanova, L.L. Betz [3]. You can get a lot of interesting ideas from them when preparing for literacy classes. But the order of passage of letters and sounds seems to us unsuccessful. What is a modern child of a speech therapy group? Most often, these are children with whom parents do little, they have a poor memory (they do not remember letters well), unstable attention, cognitive activity is reduced, sound pronunciation is impaired, the syllabic structure of words, and a poor vocabulary. Most of the children are children with an erased form of dysarthria, and the rest are phonetic-phonemic disorders, general underdevelopment of speech. Children with simple dyslalia are now almost never found in speech therapy groups.

The alphabet of E.V. helps us put everything on the shelves. Novikova "Speech therapy alphabet. A system for rapid learning to read” [2]. Every child in kindergarten has such an alphabet. We start classes in preparation for teaching literacy from the senior group (5 years). We have literacy classes twice a week. The whole work consists of 12 stages (Fig. 1). Let's consider it step by step.

First stage. First, the vowels of the 1st row are studied (A, O, U, Y, E). The sound and the corresponding letter are immediately studied. We study the characteristics of sound in a word (beginning, middle, end), select words for a given sound, select words with given sounds from sentences, stories, write letters in the sand, lay out from a ribbon, print in notebooks.

Second stage. Next, we turn to the study of consonants. First, paired consonants are studied, i.e. the letter P, then B, then differentiation. P-B. This is of fundamental importance for children with phonemic hearing impairment. They must constantly differentiate sounds. Children characterize the sound, explain that we pronounce the sound (n - b) with our lips (put our hand on the neck, listen: if the neck trembles, then the ringing sound is running). So children gradually begin not to mindlessly repeat, but to understand why the sounds P-B, D-T, ... are called paired, why P is deaf, and B is voiced. With the beginning of the study of consonants, we move on to reading syllables. Our task is to bring the reading of syllables to automatism, because the unit of reading is not a letter, but a syllable. After paired consonants, we study unpaired consonants and reading syllables with them. We carry out sound analysis of syllables, typing of syllables.

The tasks for reading syllables are very similar. This helps children bring the skill of reading syllables to automatism. So, in one year of study, children know by heart 5 vowels of the first row, most of the consonants, they can read, write, perform sound analysis of syllables, understand what a vowel sound is, a consonant, a paired consonant (they name pairs from memory), voiced, deaf consonant. Thanks to this presentation of information, all the material in children is understood and lies in the head on the shelves. Colorful illustrations and the image of hard consonants in blue and vowels in red are very helpful in the work.

Teachers reinforce the material in the evening classes by reading the ABC to the children. Once a week, literacy classes. But the order of passage of letters and sounds seems to us unsuccessful. What is a modern child of a speech therapy group? Most often, these are children with whom parents do little, they have a poor memory (they do not remember letters well), unstable attention, cognitive activity is reduced, sound pronunciation is impaired, the syllabic structure of words, and a poor vocabulary. Most of the children are children with an erased form of dysarthria, and the rest are phonetic-phonemic disorders, general underdevelopment of speech. Children with simple dyslalia are now almost never found in speech therapy groups.

The biggest gap in our children is unformed phonemic hearing. Children do not differentiate sounds by ear, they confuse the corresponding letters when reading and writing. For such complex children, we must put all the secrets of reading and writing on the shelves in their heads, each in its place, so that all the information is understandable to children and comes to mind, unraveling the whole tangle of complexities of the world of sounds and letters. The alphabet of E.V. helps us put everything on the shelves. Novikova "Speech therapy alphabet. A system for rapid learning to read” [2]. Every child in kindergarten has such an alphabet. We start classes in preparation for teaching literacy from the senior group (5 years). We have literacy classes twice a week. The whole work consists of 12 stages. Let's consider it step by step.

First stage . First, the vowels of the 1st row are studied (A, O, U, Y, E). The sound and the corresponding letter are immediately studied. We study the characteristics of sound in a word (beginning, middle, end), select words for a given sound, select words with given sounds from sentences, stories, write letters in the sand, lay out from a ribbon, print in notebooks.

Second stage . Next, we move on to the study of consonants. First, paired consonants are studied, i.e. the letter P, then B, then differentiation. P-B. This is of fundamental importance for children with phonemic hearing impairment. They must constantly differentiate sounds. Children characterize the sound, explain that we pronounce the sound (n - b) with our lips (put our hand on the neck, listen: if the neck trembles, then the ringing sound is running). So children gradually begin not to mindlessly repeat, but to understand why the sounds P-B, D-T, ... are called paired, why P is deaf, and B is voiced. With the beginning of the study of consonants, we move on to reading syllables. Our task is to bring the reading of syllables to automatism, because the unit of reading is not a letter, but a syllable. After paired consonants, we study unpaired consonants and reading syllables with them. We carry out sound analysis of syllables, typing of syllables. The tasks for reading syllables are very similar. This helps children bring the skill of reading syllables to automatism.

So, in one year of study, children know by heart 5 vowels of the first row, most of the consonants, they can read, write, perform sound analysis of syllables, understand what a vowel sound is, a consonant, a double consonant (they name pairs from memory), voiced, deaf consonant. Thanks to this presentation of information, all the material in children is understood and lies in the head on the shelves. Colorful illustrations and the image of hard consonants in blue and vowels in red are very helpful in the work. Educators in the evening classes reinforce the material by reading the alphabet with the children. Once a week, on weekends, parents receive the alphabet at home. The ABC has clear guidelines for parents at each stage of education. Some children who have learned to read a syllable well, to hear a syllable in words, begin to read on their own. But most children have to work well in the preparatory group. Having studied the first and second stages in the senior group, work in the preparatory group begins with the third stage. In the preparatory group, we have literacy classes three times a week. The developed thematic planning for teaching literacy based on the alphabet E.V. Novikova, we use in our work with children in kindergarten. Literacy begins in the second week of September. First, during the first two weeks, we repeat the vowels A, O, U, Y, E.

Third stage . We introduce children to the letter and sound [th]. Then, we study the vowels of the second row I, Yo, Yu, I, E. At the end of the study of vowels, we tell and show a fairy tale about the formation of vowels of the second row, given in the alphabet. We repeat vowels during the year at each lesson, and the children meaningfully name the terms: vowels of the first row, vowels of the second row.

Fourth stage . We turn to the study of consonants, most of them were studied in the older group, but at this stage we introduce the concepts of hard and soft consonants, we begin to differentiate consonants by hardness and softness and by deafness-voicedness (paired consonants are studied only in pairs and before unpaired consonants). The syllable tables of the alphabet help to practice reading, soft consonants are shown in green. At this stage, sound analysis of only syllables is carried out. Analyzing a syllable with soft consonants, children argue as follows: pya - the first sound [n`] - a deaf soft consonant, the second sound [a], but after soft consonants, vowels of the second row are studied. This rule is well memorized by children, and with daily sound analysis, children firmly master these laws of Russian grammar. We finish studying letters (except for ь and ъ) at the beginning of February. The skill of reading various types of syllables has been brought to automaticity.

From the fifth to the ninth stage we start reading words. Tables for reading words include words of various syllabic structures from simple to complex, which contributes to a better formation of the syllabic structure of speech in children of the speech therapy group. Then separate lessons are devoted to practicing reading words with "b" and "b". This is where we start making suggestions. We study the rules for writing proposals. While reading the words, we work out the rules for writing combinations of zhi-shi, cha-cha, chu-shu. We study that the names of people, the names of animals, the names of cities, rivers, streets, countries are capitalized. At this stage, we carry out sound analysis and synthesis of words. Learning to type sentences.

Tenth stage . Since our children are special, and for them the greatest difficulty is the differentiation of sounds, we again return to the differentiation of consonants according to sonority-deafness, but not in syllables, but in words.

Eleventh stage . At this penultimate stage, we develop in children the skill of correctly reading words with consonants, hardness-softness. There are a large number of words in the reading tables. Reading them, we analyze the meaning of these words, make sentences with them, select synonyms, antonyms, learn to put questions to them, which helps to expand the vocabulary of children.

The twelfth stage , the last one - we learn to read short texts, we practice observing the correct intonation, we learn to delve into the meaning of what we read.

Using the development of E.V. Novikova, we consider it very effective in working with children. Both children and parents are satisfied with the presentation of information in the alphabet. Children from the preparatory group of the kindergarten come out fully prepared for school. And how they will continue to learn, depends only on them.

Literature.

1. Gerbova V. A book for reading in kindergarten and at home for children aged 5–7. Moscow: Oniks, 2010. 352.

2. Novikova E.V. Logopedic alphabet. Rapid Reading System. Moscow: Gnom, 2012.

3. Tsukanova S.P., Betz L.L. I am learning to speak and read. Moscow: Gnome, 2006.

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Learning vowels tasks for preschoolers 5-6 years old in a playful way

Learning to read begins with the study of letters and sounds. The kid learns them separately, and then begins to put them into syllables, and later into words. So that acquaintance with letters does not turn out to be too difficult for the baby, you need to organize it correctly. Let's find out how to quickly learn vowel sounds with your child.

How to start learning vowels

Many parents begin to teach their children the alphabet, looking at all the letters in a row, in alphabetical order. This is not the correct method. It is better to divide the letters into vowels and consonants and learn each group separately. This approach will greatly facilitate the child's task.

Start with vowels. First, explain to your child the difference between vowels and consonants. Vowels are sounds that are pronounced by the voice. They are sonorous, from which you can sing, stretch your voice.

To show your child the difference between vowels and consonants, give him a mirror and ask him to pronounce different sounds. Let him see how the position of the mouth changes during the pronunciation of vowels and consonants. When pronouncing vowels, the mouth is freely open, the tongue lies and does not move, and the air freely leaves the throat. The pronunciation of consonants involves lips, tongue, teeth.

When the child learns to distinguish between these two groups of sounds, you can move on to a more detailed study of vowels.

Method for studying vowels

There are ten vowels in the Russian alphabet - A, O, U, Y, I, Y, E, Y, Y, E. To make it easier for a child to remember them, make them from cardboard (or buy ) cards with their image.

Letters A, O, U, Y, E write in one color, for example, red. And the letters I, Yo, Yu, I, E - in a different color, for example, blue. This is necessary so that the child learns to distinguish between "hard" and "soft" vowels.

Arrange the cards in pairs: A-Z, O-E, U-Y, Y-I, E-E and show the child. Explain that paired sounds are similar to each other, only A, O, U, S, E are pronounced firmly and with a wide open mouth, and I, E, Yu, I, E have a soft sound and when they are pronounced, the lips stretch or fold into tube.

Let the child practice pronouncing the sounds in pairs by observing his facial expressions in the mirror.

Letter games

Children learn best through play. So turn the boring memorization of sounds into a fun game.

Shuffle the cards and place them face up on the table. The task of the kid is to fold the cards with red and blue letters (A-Z, O-Yo, etc.) in pairs.
Shuffle the cards like playing cards. Pull out one, show the child and ask what the letter is written on it. If he answered correctly, the card goes to him, if incorrectly, it is returned to you. To make it easier for the baby, first show the letters in pairs (A, then Z, etc. ), and then at random.
Draw or give a task a child to draw a house with ten windows - five in two rows. Write the letters A, O, U, Y, E in each box of the first row, and then ask the child to write in the boxes of the second row a pair for each letter. Then erase the letters and enter in the first row of boxes I, Yo, Yu, I, E and ask the baby to enter their pair in the second row. Then erase all the letters again and invite the child to enter all the pairs in both rows of boxes.
name words that begin with vowels, and ask your child to name this sound (watermelon, donkey, snail, spinning top, apple, Christmas tree, blackberry, needle, exam). Then the child must come up with words that begin with each vowel sound. Invite him to name a word that starts with Y. After unsuccessful attempts to do this, explain that in Russian this letter never occurs at the beginning of a word. Name the words in which Y is in the middle (fish, lynx, skis) or at the end (teeth, mushrooms, mountains).
Find pictures of objects with three letters in the name , one of which is the vowel (cat, onion, cheese, crayfish, beetle, etc.). Ask the child to name the object shown in the picture, determine what vowel sound is in this word and where it is located (at the beginning, middle or end of the word).
Take a pencil and write any vowel in the air. The kid must guess what exactly you wrote.

Magnetic letters will be a good help in learning. They are bright, multi-colored, they can be attached to any metal surfaces. The kid will be happy to play with them.

Play these games every day to be effective. If the child does not want to play at the moment, do not force him. Postpone exercise for the evening. Don't do it for too long so your baby doesn't get bored. Let him look forward to the next time.

When the baby learns the vowels well, you can move on to studying consonants, composing syllables, and then to full reading.