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How to Teach the Alphabet

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Teaching the alphabet is the core of what we do in kindergarten for many months! There are many moving parts in the classroom that work together to get kids to learn the alphabet.

How to Effectively Teach the Alphabet in Kindergarten

1. Just read! Seems silly to say but the best way to teach kids the alphabet is to just submerse them in it! As you are doing your normal read aloud, point out the letters and how you are using what is printed on the page to say the words. And then it’s also fun to read books about the alphabet; below are some of my favorites!

It’s also great to put these books into your writing lab to inspire writing! They are great jump starters for stories!

2. Teach the students the letters in their names. Children have seen the letters in their name more and heard the sounds in those letters their entire life, so it only makes sense to start there. Be sure to visit our Names Pinterest board for TONS of ideas on working with students’ names!

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3. Add music and movement! So important for little learners and there are so many great videos on YouTube that do this! I also love to incorporate tunes the students already know into our learning and so the below video is perfect for daily practice!

And then as the school year goes on, you still want to continue to teach the alphabet but the kids get a little bored with the same old songs, so we sing it backward! (They can do it and so can you!)

4. Follow your curriculum (or create a map of how you want to teach the letters.) This is so important because you don’t want to confuse your students. If your district has a prescribed curriculum, embrace and make it work. Supplement it where you can with fun and engaging activities. If you don’t have curriculum, decide how you want to teach the alphabet. There are many theories on what works, but honestly you will find research that says a letter a day is appropriate and a letter a week is as well. In my perfect work, we would teach 2 letters a week but that’s a decision you will have to make if you are able to.

If you don’t have a curriculum, our Letter of the Week files can help. They are fully comprehensive units that have posters, printables, anchor charts, centers, and lots more! We call it Letter of the Week because it is literally a week worth of activities for each letter, but you don’t have to be a Letter of the Week teacher. You can definitely use whatever timeframe and all sorts of reading programs and approaches with these printable.

5. Put learning the alphabet into your centers! Centers are where the students really practice and get comfortable with the skills you are teaching! So it’s super important that all year you have the alphabet covered in your activities. One of my student’s favorite centers is our boring old flashcards on binder rings that I keep in a drawer in my writing center. (This is of course more of a spring sentence but at the beginning of the year students can draw other pictures and label them with the same letter they pick.)

6. Track your student’s growth. Another super important part of teaching the alphabet. I use Checklist Assessments to record what letters my kids can and cannot say the name, sound and write. This helps me to be able to pull targeted groups and really instruct on what my students are needing!

7. Include crafts and make it fun! So important to understand that our little learners need crafts and activities to create meaning! Again so many crafts and activities you can do, but I love Alphabet Hats because they go home with the students and the parents adore them! (Be sure to click over for a free hat!)

Making it fun does not have to mean arts and crafts either. Kids love doing Interactive Alphabet Notebooks where they can cut, glue, and assemble all sorts of little flip flaps. Can kinders do them? YES. Our Interactive Notebooks are make with easy cuts that repeat again and again. You will model the first couple times and then kids will get it. These are truly a great tool because it is fun and academic.

8. Practice for fluency! Once your students have a good basis of the letters, you will want to have them pick up the speed and create some automaticity in their knowledge! Letter cards or word searches are great resources to do this. Students can start by just identifying specific letters by circling the or dotting them with a bingo dotter. This will get them used to seeing the letter all mixed up and then as the year moves on they can read those letters for speed and fluency!

9. Keep your families well informed. We really need our families to help reinforce what we teach in the classroom and that is especially important when learning the alphabet. We need our parents to be on the same page with how to form the letters, teaching upper or lower case letters first, and etc. These Alphabet Brochures can help with that.

Alphabet Bracelets are also a great activity to do in class that lets parents know what letters we worked on in class.

When all of those elements fall into place, teaching and learning the alphabet is a lot more effective!

So I have teamed up with some of my friends to get you more information on teaching the alphabet!

At Simply Kinder we work together to bring you ready-to-use resources to partner with great teaching for any curriculum, a Facebook community where teachers talk all things Kindergarten, and low-prep learning ideas that your students will love. Be sure to stay up to date with all things kindergarten on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and through email. Simply Kinder: where teaching Kinder is definitely better together!

18 Amazing Alphabet Videos to Help Kids Learn Their ABCs

Is there anything more important in a young student’s life than learning their ABCs? This fundamental skill opens up the world of reading and writing, which can take kids just about anywhere! These alphabet videos help teach and reinforce the letters and their sounds in fun and engaging ways. Kids will beg to watch them again and again!

1. Take a trip to Sesame Street

When it comes to alphabet videos, no one does it better than Sesame Street. This compilation of songs includes famous musical guest stars like Usher and India.Arie, plus familiar characters like Elmo and Kermit the Frog.

2. Rap the alphabet

It’s the ABC song, but with a hip-hop twist. This video also covers the sounds each letter makes, making the alphabet more meaningful.

3. Watch the Alphablocks

This video episode of the popular show opens with the Alphablocks trying to sing the familiar ABC song—but some letters want more than their fair share! You can watch just this part alone, or play the entire video to see the Alphablocks on their various adventures.

4. Workout to the letter sounds

Popular kids’ entertainer Jack Hartmann gets little ones up and moving as they work out and learn their letters at the same time. This one is perfect for a movement break!

5. Canta la alphabeto en Español

Why limit yourself to English? Gina Rodriguez and Elmo are here to help you learn to sing the ABCs in Spanish too!

6. Learn the yoga alphabet

Learn the alphabet and basic yoga poses, all at the same time! Watch the video through once, then go back and play it slowly letter-by-letter, doing the yoga poses along the way. This is such a fun way to do the ABCs!

7.

Transform the letters of the alphabet

Kids who love to play with cars and trucks will get a kick out of this alphabet video. Each letter drives onto the screen in pieces, then transforms itself into position.

8. Do the alphabet dance

We love alphabet videos that get kids up and moving! In this one, little learners make the shapes of the letters with their bodies as they dance along to the upbeat music.

9. Meet the dinosaur alphabet

Dino-obsessed kids will love this video! It features a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet, plus fun facts about each species.

10. Sing a new alphabet song

Ready for a new alphabet tune? This video features a competitor on “Alphabet Idol” crooning the ABCs to a new melody and rhythm.

11. Listen to

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Whether they’re new to the book or already know it by heart, kids will enjoy this syncopated performance accompanied by colorful visuals. For another fun version, watch Ray Charles reading this beloved favorite!

12. Come to the alphabet party

What happens when you invite all the letters to a party at your house? Find out in this sweet song! (B is blowing bubbles and K is fascinated with her kite, for starters.)

13. Visit the Alphabet Lost and Found

Oh no! So many words have lost their letters! What will they do? Visit the Alphabet Lost and Found, of course! (Love They Might Be Giants? Watch the whole Here Comes The ABCs album here. )

14. Join the StoryBots to learn the alphabet

The StoryBots take you through the alphabet from A to Z in this longer musical video, giving examples along the way. Kids will have fun pretending to be robots as they sing along.

15. Dine on alphabet veggies

Learn the ABCs and a whole lot of healthy vegetables too! From arugula to zucchini, they’re all here, and they’re all nutritious.

16. Dance to the Boogie Woogie Piggies Alphabet

Sesame Street has done so many alphabet videos over the years, but this barnyard classic remains a favorite. Sing and dance (and oink) along with the Boogie Woogie Piggies as they perform the ABCs. (For more throwback fun, check out the time Big Bird thought the alphabet was one long word!)

17. Try the alphabet backwards

Look at the alphabet in a whole new way when you try to sing it backwards. Learning their “CBAs” is new for most kids, and it’s a terrific way to get them to think outside the box.

18. See it, say it, sign it

We love the idea of teaching all kids the sign language alphabet. Even if they never learn another sign, they’ll have the basic skills to communicate with those who are deaf/hard of hearing .

Enjoying these alphabet videos? Keep the learning going with 26 Fun Easy Ways For Kids to Practice Their ABCs.

Plus, 26 Awesome Ways To Use Alphabet Beads For Learning.

Poems about the alphabet, alphabet, letters for children

Poems for children about the alphabet and the alphabet, which are collected on our page, will be useful to teachers, educators of the extended day group, educators in kindergarten and parents who seek to give their children more knowledge and ideas about the surrounding world.

A verse about the primer

The first book

Here is my first book —
Is it familiar to everyone, perhaps?
Pictures - multicolored,
Words -
Plain,
Light.
She
Will start me

Learn -
Read,
Write,
Work,
Live.

Will open everything
Roads to the distance
The first book for me -
PRIMER!
Valentin Luksha

A short verse about the alphabet

What is the alphabet?
You guys know him.
The letter in it always stands
In its special place.
We learn, we learn by heart
We are together with the alphabet,
To help him find it
In dictionaries, where necessary.
***

ABC

What happened? What happened?
The alphabet fell off the stove!

Dislocated leg painfully
Capital letter M ,
D hit a little bit,
F completely crumbled!

I lost the letter Yu
I lost my crossbar!
Finding herself on the floor,
Broke her tail At .

F , poor thing, so bloated -
Do not read it in any way!
Letter P turned over -
Turned into a soft sign!

The letter With completely closed -
Turned into the letter O .
Letter A when I woke up,
Didn't recognize anyone!
^{Y. Tuvim}
***

Alphabet song

Thirty-three sisters
Written beauties,
They live on the same page,
And they are famous everywhere!
They are hurrying to you now.
Glorious sisters -
We kindly ask all the guys
Make friends with them!
A B C D E F F F
Rolled us a hedgehog!
Z I Y K L M N O
We climbed out the window together!
P R S T U V X
Rooster is saddled!
C W W W E Yu Z —
That's all they are, friends!
Meet them kids!
Here they are, standing side by side.
It is very bad to live in the world
For those who are not familiar with them!
^{B. Zakhoder} ***

Alphabet memorization verses

A, b, c, d, e, f, e –
We will wash clothes.
F, g, i, d, j, l, m –
Quickly eat orange.
N, o, p, r, s, t, y -
Let's take a walk on the bridge.
F, x, c, h, w, u -
Ah, what a thicket!
b, s, b -
They will not be remembered in any way.
E, y, me -
That's all, my friends.
***

Alphabet

A B C D E F Y
Know your place!
F Z I Y K L M
Remember who is after whom!
N O P R S T U
Stand together, all in a row!
F X C W W and W
Settle in slowly!
b y b
Stand side by side like this!
Hurry up, E Yu Ya!
Here is the family in the collection of letters!
^{S.F. Zhuikov, M.M. Zelenina, E.G. Carlson
***}

You memorize these letters.
There are more than three dozen of them,
And for you they are the keys
To all good books.

Don't forget to take the
Magic Keys on the road.
You will find a way into any story,
You will enter any fairy tale.

You will read books about animals,
Plants and machines.
You will visit the seas
And on the gray peaks...
Wonderful lands for you
Will open the way from " A " to " I ".
***

Forest Academy

One summer, on the lawn,
A very intelligent Maybug
Founded the Academy of Sciences for insects
.

Academy is open!
From dawn to dawn
Forest insects
Study ABC books:

A - Shark, B - Birch,
C - Crow, D - Thunderstorm ...
- Bumblebee and Fly, don't buzz!
Calm down, Dragonfly!

Repeat, do not stray:
D - Road, E - Raccoon ...
Turn to the board, Grasshopper!
You sat down backwards!

F - Crane or Toad,
Z - Fence or Snake ...
- Don't be ridiculous, Komarik,
Move from Ant!

and - Needle, K - Nettle,
L - Larva, Linden, Meadow . ..
- Whom did you set the net for?
Get out, evil Spider!

M - Bear, Mouse, Sea.
H Burbot, а O Deer…
Don't go to the academy
Those who are too lazy to study!

P - Parsley, R - Chamomile,
S - Knot or Morel ...
- Cockroach, don't make faces!
Don't tell me, Cricket!

T - Blade of grass, U - Snail,
F - Violet, X - Ferret ...
- After the first break
We will continue our lesson!

Insects learn the alphabet,
To become literate,
Because it's not enough -
Just crawl and fly!
^{S. Mikhalkov
***}

At a feast at the mole

They have been living together for centuries
They live in harmony "G" and "K"
When it is replaced by "G",
What is similar to a heron in appearance
And stands on one leg.

Once opened a MOLE
There is a huge GROTTO in the garden.
He took out a bag of BONES
And invited GUESTS.
JACKAL from afar
CHAGAL to his feast.
Toptygin took off his hat -
Jackal vanished from fear.
And the crab Fight the CRAB
Come on in the shade under the HORNBEAM.
The hedgehog curled up into a ball,
His sleep became DEEP.
And, having a bite of the BARK,
A hare under the MOUNTAIN,
To excel in the GAMES,
Danced to the pain in the calves.

Naughty letters

Sparrow galloped -
Found some CRUMPS somewhere.
He immediately ate one
Right on the path,
The rest did not have time:
CATS interfered.

"K" in the fitter's pocket - jump! -
And in the pocket - ROLLERS.
From the pocket at the same moment
RABBITS jumped out!

Somehow the gazelles decided
With the letter "G" to start GAMES,
And for this they almost ate
Their ruthless TIGERS!

Such a laugh:
"R" fell on the CAT!
The cat is not a cat now, but a MOLE,
He digs an underground passage.

How the letters get married

How lonely the poor fellow is M ,
He completely withered from melancholy,
Like a May bug in a box.
And here is the beautiful letter U
Once he met
On the alphabet path.
And poor M said pleadingly:
-Let's get married with you.
But was met harshly:
-You M , I U , and together MU ?
I don't need to moo all my life.
Goodbye, I'm not a cow.
Our M was terribly offended.
But the letter and was proposed by him.
And she agreed.
She said to him: — We
Let's make a word together WE ,
And this is so beautiful.
^{Yu. Vronsky}

Learning the letter A, ready-made assignments

Joyful, dynamic poems with funny stories, adults and children will definitely like them. From them, the guys learn that there are 33 sister letters in the Russian language. That they are in a certain order. With the help of verses, you can easily learn the alphabet.

When reading, it is desirable to explain to children that the language has letters - this is what we write and read, and sounds - we pronounce and hear. It is desirable that children clearly differentiate these concepts. Because consonants and sounds have different sounds. For example, "rrrr" is a sound, but "er" is a letter. At first, it is difficult for children to understand and assimilate, but over time they will understand this and their knowledge is systematized.

Start small and soon great things will come to you and your children!

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