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Learning Letters with Fun Activities
If your kids are learning letters, then this is the post for you! Teach the alphabet with hands-on activities that are engaging and enjoyable for young kids!
I am always creating new alphabet activities to do with my kids. From games, to activities to hands-on printables, there are so many ways to make learning letters a fun experience for your kids!
These activities are all fun, engaging and hands-on ways for kids to learn letters. And many of them require very few supplies. So let’s get started!
Learning Letters in Preschool and Kindergarten
1. Use a sand tray and these letter formation cards to help kids with letter identification, letter formation and even letter sounds.
Just use a small shallow tray and some colored sand to make a writing tray. Then pair it with the letter formation cards. The cards even include a small picture that represents the sound that each letter makes!
2. Play this Roll and Dot the Letter Game. In the two-player game version, children will roll an alphabet dice, and dot the letter on the page. The first person to dot 5 letters in a row wins! Or keep the game going and see who can get the most 5 in a rows per sheet.
3. Use these alphabet clip cards to help kids learn letter sounds while also developing fine motor skills!
4. These Beginning Sounds I Spy Mats make learning letters sounds fun and hands-on! Grab some alphabet beads and see if your kids can find all the letter sounds on the mat!
5. Print out this board game and play a fun game that teaches letter identification and letter sounds. This is one of my most popular ideas and one of my kids’ favorites!
6. These printable alphabet puzzles will make learning letters a hands-on experience. They develop critical thinking skills and fine motor skills while teaching letters and sounds!
7. Combine play dough and learning letters with these engaging alphabet mats.
Not only will kids practice letter formation while using them, but they will also practice identifying beginning sounds in words. Slip them into write and wipe pockets and you can use dry-erase markers on them too.
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8. These Beginning Sounds Clip Wheels develop fine motor skills while teaching the children to identify beginning letter sounds. Each wheel includes 4 objects that correspond to the letter in the middle. Children will mark the correct pictures with clothespins.
9. Beginning Sounds Mazes are a fun way to learn letter sounds! These bright and colorful mazes are visually engaging and great for developing visual tracking skills which are also necessary for reading.
10. My kids really enjoy these Spot the Letter Mats.
Children will search the mat for objects that start with the letter in the middle of the mat. Slip in dry-erase sleeves and mark objects with dry-erase marker. Or laminate and mark with pom poms, craft gems or other small objects.
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Teaching Letter Recognition - What Order to Introduce Letters
Wondering about the order for teaching letters to your little ones? I’m on it!
I feel as though I am always writing about waiting to teach letter recognition. Wait and let little hands get strengthened by other activities. Wait until little minds have had ample time to hear different words and sounds. But a day will come when you SHOULD teach your little ones their alphabet letters, of course.
Whether it is when they are 3, 4, 5, or 6, at one point or another, they will be ready, and teaching letter recognition will be the name of the game.
So, when they are ready, what is the order for teaching letters?
Don’t worry – I have an opinion on that too!
In fact, this is such an important topic, I have created a FREE resource just for you all about teaching letters to little ones. You can grab it right here:
If you are more of a watcher than a reader, I have created a seven-minute video for you all about teaching letter recognition to young children. You can watch right here (or simply keep reading below if you would rather):
And just in case the video above doesn’t work for you, you can also watch it right here on YouTube.
When I was in the Kindergarten classroom, I did not teach letter recognition in alphabetical order. I began with “name letters” as these letters hold a very important meaning to children. So for “Sammy,” he learned all about s, a, m, and y.
Once children know their name letters well, I would introduce the other alphabet letters (and sounds) in this order:
At first, relatively quickly, I would introduce the first row of letters, maybe over a week.
Then we do lots of activities playing with those letters: their sounds, shapes, and names. Once they are mastered, we add in the next row. Building and growing, slow and steady.
Starting with the lowercase is helpful, and something I have begun doing—though I haven’t always. Clearly, little ones need to know both upper and lowercase letters, but since so much of the print in our everyday lives is lowercase, I find it beneficial to start in that way.
The letter order is similar to the way the letters are taught in the Jolly Phonics Program. By teaching the letters in this manner, children are able to begin forming words very quickly. After learning the first six letters, kids can make words in the “at,” “an,” “it,” “ip,” “ap,” and “in” word families.
- s, a, t, i, p, n
- c, k, e, h, r
- m, d, g, o
- l, f, b, q, u
- j, z, w
- v, y, x
Introducing the letters and letting little ones begin to make words almost right away creates a huge sense of pride.
And since you waited to introduce the letters (you did wait, right?) they are absolutely ready and will be catching on right away, grasping those letter names and sounds easily. If not, perhaps wait a little longer.
I know it is hard (trust me, I know!) but waiting until your little one is ready will save you both mounds of frustration, and ensure your little one loves learning. There is no rush.
Of course, ideas and games for introducing letters can be found all over How Wee Learn!
Ready to start helping your little ones learn their letters? Here are some great ideas and fun games that will have those letters mastered in no time!
Digging Up Letters – Grab some dump trucks, diggers, and pebbles and “dig up” some letter-learning fun with your preschooler! This post shares more information about the order for teaching the letters.
Flying into Letter Recognition – This fun one just requires painter’s tape and construction paper.
Pop that first group of alphabet letters (s, a, t, i, p, n) on the ground using painter’s tape and let those little ones throw paper airplanes to learn their ABCs!
Swat the ABC Balloons – We love using balloons for fun learning games. This alphabet activity is absolutely perfect for preschoolers as it engages the whole body. And we all know 3-year-olds LOVE to learn with their whole body.
Zoom and Sort the ABCs – All you need is painter’s tape and some toy cars for this one. This one uses painter’s tape in a different way; the painter’s tape forms the road while the cars hold the letters. This letters activity for preschoolers is great for introducing capital and lowercase letters.
Pipecleaner and Popsicle Stick Letters – Forming letters with pipecleaners and popsicle sticks on a homemade sticky board – popsicle sticks can be used for so many purposes!
Skeleton Bone Writing (bending Qtips!) – We use Qtips a lot over here for learning games like this one.
Bending those Qtips is a great way to make the curvy parts of the letters. Having children manipulate objects to form letters is a very powerful learning opportunity.
Re-useable Alphabet Paper Chain Games – We use construction paper a lot to make simple paper chains. I like to add velcro to make these chains reusable again and again. Little words can be built and played with all day long.
Building a Name with Blocks – Duplo building blocks are a favourite here, and they are perfect for this name-building game.
Mail Play! – Mailing friends their “name letters” is a great way to practice letter recognition! Matching letters of the alphabet is a great place to start with letter recognition. First, little ones recognize which letters match, then they can practice forming the letters from a sample, and finally, they can produce it on their own. The order for teaching letters can be the same for all of these steps.
Dinosaur Bone (Well, Letter) Excavating – Magnetic alphabet letters can be used for so many learning activities, like this fun dinosaur letter excavation!
An A-MAZE-ing Letter Learning Game – Grab that painter’s tape once more! This time we made a fun maze for learning our alphabet letters.
Now that you are armed with some fun games, have an idea about the order for teaching letters, and have waited for your little one to be ready… it is time to let them learn those letters!
Have fun with this big step with your little ones. And remember, slow is always better. Follow your child’s lead and keep it light and fun. This is the beginning of a lifetime of learning and a love of reading.
Good luck! And remember, I am only an email away with any questions!
Thank you so much for reading, friends! I hope you are having a wonderful week.
P.S. Don’t forget to grab your Free Teaching Letter Recognition Guide!
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Poems about the alphabet and letters from A to Z
Beautiful children's poems about all 33 letters of the alphabet with pictures.
Funny and funny poems by Russian songwriters about letters from A to Z and author's poems about the alphabet, the alphabet. Many are suitable for kids in kindergartens, there are “older” rhymes for schoolchildren for competitions and presentations. In addition to poetry, there are riddles about letters.
Poems about letters
letter A
10009 Because the letter "A"
Begins the Alphabet!
Asters, storks, pharmacies
Letter "A" is friends forever!
2
Here are two posts diagonally,
And between them is a belt.
Do you know this letter? A?
The letter A is in front of you.
(S.Ya. Marshak)
3
We need to know the letter A,
To read something,
Oh, Antoshka, Aibolit -
We need to know the alphabet!
4
A - the beginning of the alphabet,
That's what she is famous for.
And it's easy to recognize her:
She puts her feet wide.
(A. Shibaev)
5
Everyone knows the letter "A" -
The letter is very nice.
And besides, the letter "A"
The main one in the alphabet.
6
Aster, alphabet, quince
Beginning with A.
Ending with A
Astra, alphabet, quince.
the letter B
1
The letter B is a big beech,
Eyebrows frowns and mumbles:
— I will not forget the letter brothers
Even small offenses!
Here I'll take it and be bad -
I'll show my tongue to you!
Or - a terrible bully!
Boo-boo-boo yes be-be-be...
Give her a sweet bagel,
Tie a white bow -
The letter B will be kinder,
Become friends with letters!
2
A ram galloped to the cry,
He began to beat the drum,
Call the letter "B" for help,
To help out a girlfriend!
3
Letter B - in mother's beads,
Letter B - in large watermelons,
In a kind, sweet grandmother
And a beautiful butterfly!
4
Cheerful, fat clown
Plays the trumpet.
This pot-bellied
Looks like the letter "B".
letter B
1
Bactrian camel carries letter B
Proud carries on its back.
It's a shame for the one-humped man -
The letter B is not visible on it.
(S. Ostrovsky)
2
“V” is a very important letter,
I imagined it was terrible.
Chest like a wheel, belly inflated,
As if nothing is more important here.
the letter G
1
G is a cheerful, kind dwarf!
There are many fairy tales about him.
He comes to the boys' dreams
At night and even during the day!
2
On the letter G, like on a horse,
Gleb drove around the garden,
But on the pea beds
Gleb did not run with his feet.
3
The goose cackles ha-ha-ha,
Where are the guests, gentlemen?
I was expecting guests today,
I called the letter G to my place.
4
Geese, jackdaws and loons,
Rook, capercaillie and dove,
Packing-bars among themselves,
They love G, my friend.
5
Stork on one leg
Resembles the letter "G".
letter D
1
Here is a house where good friends are,
There is smoke above the house, and there is a door in the house.
We guessed - you and me -
What should D write now.
2
The letter D is a spacious House.
It is warm and cozy in it.
Toys live there,
Dolls and animals.
3
You will find it everywhere:
In the gray beard,
And at the very bottom in the water.
Guessed? It is D!
4
"D" like a neat house
With a high gable roof.
letter E
1
Next will be the letter E,
I'll show you too.
The tall spruce is growing.
The hedgehog chews the blackberry.
Grandfather is riding a cart.
He is one hundred years old.
A raccoon lives under a bush.
Yegor is going outside.
(V. Lomovtsev)
2
"E" looks like a comb,
Can make everyone's hair.
Learning, learning the letter "E" -
That's all learned.
(V. Anoshina)
3
In the word spruce we will hear "E",
We will write the letter "E" like this:
The trunk and the trunk have three branches.
Let's remember the letter "E", kids.
4
We always have the letter E:
There is wonderful food,
And the ride - after all, from it
We will go to the letter Y.
(A. Manfish)
the letter Y
1
I ran along the path, Y00 Yo lost two dots,
Crying, sitting on the ground:
- Now I'm not Yo, but E!
From the wings of a ladybug
Deftly brushed off two dots,
Fixed them with grass
Letter Y over her head.
Saying goodbye:
- I have a lot of points!
Don't worry, letter Yo,
It's all yours now!
2
If there are two dots on top of “E”,
This is “Yo” – we know for sure.
If all points are removed from “Yo”,
“E” will turn out again.
3
The letter “ё” is always with eyes
And with prickly hedgehogs.
Hedgehog carries her on the back
With blackberry and blade of grass.
letter Zh
1
Look at the picture:
“Zh” looks like a snowflake.
Here's another one -
"F" flutter by the window.
The letters are spinning in the air,
They lie on my palm!
Here are three more letters "Ж"...
No, they've already melted!
(A. Usachev)
2
"Zh" has so many legs,
As if the letter could crawl.
The letter "Ж", for sure,
The shadow of a beetle on paper.
the letter Z
1
The letter "Z" in the number "Three"
Says in the ear:
- Look, look,
Dear friend,
How much,
How much,
How much
We too
Similar!..
We have common features,
You are like me,
And I am like you.
We are like chicks,
Maybe we are twins?
2
In the star you will find the letter 3,
Both in gold and rose,
Earth, diamond, turquoise,
Dawn, earth, frost.
3
The letter Z is similar to B.
Head, tummy too.
Only on the left without a line
You draw the letter Z.
letter I
1
At the needle-needle
The nose is thin and prickly,
And it sticks out of the eye
A thread-friend.
You embroider with a needle,
Don't inject yourself in vain.
A prick, turn
Into a non-thorn letter... (I)
2
"I" looks like an accordion,
Like a frightened cat.
"And" between two straight roads
One lay down obliquely.
3
Look at the gate:
How is it not the letter I?
Between two straight boards
One lay down obliquely.
4
The donkey repeats the letter I,
Adding the letter Y.
Will not calm down in any way -
Everything screams: ia! and I!
letter Y
1
At the station “And short”
We were greeted with a riddle:
“Read, be smart and guess -
How, without getting up,
Can you turn tram
into many trams?”
One of us for about three minutes
Thought about the solution
And answered: “Erase the hook
Above the letter“ And short ”.
2
There are very few words with "Y":
Yoghurt, iodine, and the word yoga.
"Y" at the end we usually write:
Tea, random, secret, extra.
3
The letter "Y" and the letter "I" -
They are very similar.
Two sticks, still oblique
Such a crossbar.
the letter K
1
The alphabet is interesting,
In the continuation of the rhyme,
The letter Ka will follow,
Half of a beetle.
The carousel is spinning around.
A mouse is not a cat's friend.
The brush dips the paint.
The finger presses the button.
The cactus grows in the room.
Kolya Kostika - will find.
(Vladimir Lomovtsev)
2
Where did the letter K go?
Apparently she also ran away,
It became boring in the primer,
Here, she is walking in the yard.
She is friends with a cat and a dog,
And with a bully goat,
Yes, she ran to the cow,
Then she chatted with chickens.
I rode on a swing,
Yes, I rushed off to the primer again.
3
Questions begin
With the letter "Ka" ... just questions!
Who, where, when, to whom?
How to answer? I don't understand!
The letter is very curious,
He wants to know everything about me.
(V. Anoshina)
4
"K" dances with one paw,
And waves with the other paw.
And at the same time the letter "K"
Like the antennae of a beetle.
letter L
1
Let's write the first letter L.
Two boards covered with a roof.
Let's put on the belt for the letter L -
Let's change the letter L for the letter A.
Let's write the letter L again.
We emphasize with a lower line,
We put the legs on the sides -
The letter D comes out to us.
If you can write two letters L
You managed to write next to each other,
Then they will please everyone
Will turn into the letter M.
2
A fox cub is walking in the forest,
A fox cub repeats letters,
One, two, three, four, five,
How not to lose the letter L.
3
An avalanche of glorious "L" pours -
They hit me in the head with a shower,
These "L" love me,
They stick like I'm Lucy.
4
The alphabet will continue our
The letter “L” is a forest hut.
letter M
1
I'll tell the guys all,
There are no problems with the alphabet,
For those who know the letter em.
My dear mother,
Washing a dirty pot.
The car is standing outside the window.
The mouse in the hole squeaks.
Many benefits from carrots.
Misha plays the ball skillfully.
2
A car came to us:
Mishka brought us Raspberries,
Delicious Honey and Milk,
And left far away.
The ball jumped - “It's me!
The letter "M" is now mine!
One-two-three-four-five,
We need to know the letter "M"!
3
Knowing this letter is simple,
Who has been at least once in the subway,
In the evenings we all shine
Letter "M" between houses.
4
Mom is the best of words,
The letter “em” is ready for the baby
To learn from the cradle:
“Mom, I think!” - screams awake.
letter H
1
Rhino shouts to friends,
I brought the letter H to you,
You need to know the letter H,
To celebrate the New Year.
2
The letter H is like a ladder,
We are all moving forward,
Like a ladder, miraculous,
Calling us to the world of knowledge!
3
I have about the letter "H"
Suddenly there was a song:
N-n-n-n-n-n-n -
It turned out to be a ladder.
letter O
1
"Oh!" - said the letter "O", -
"Everyone has known me for a long time,
I look like a lot:
A ring, a steering wheel too,
A circle, a bun.
Wheel, moon, flower -
Dandelion or chamomile.
On a plate of semolina!”
2
The letter "O" - the moon and the sun,
There is a round window in the house.
And the clock, and the wheel,
And that, it seems, is not all.
3
This letter has no angle,
That is why it is round.
She was so round before,
She could roll.
letter P
1
Someone recently said:
"P" looks like a gate,
I was too lazy to object,
I knew that "P" is like a stump.
2
The letter P in the gym
They called it the crossbar -
Come on, dear, don't be lazy,
Come and pull yourself up.
3
Petya, Petya, Petushok,
Gets acquainted with the letter P,
For Dad to read,
Everyone needs to know the letter P.
letter R
1
How to remember the letter "R"?
Everyone can, for example,
Put his hand on the barrel
And introduce “P” to each other.
2
The crow says: — Karrr!
I have a huge gift.
I am an example to all the guys,
The letter “P” is not difficult for me.
3
She will tell, for example.
About the turnip and the fish.
Guys, this is the letter P -
We will say without error.
4
Letter P - snarling,
Simply wonderful.
With this trill letter
Waxwings love.
letter C
1
Rainbow to the sky
The letter "C" bent.
Strained her sides -
Supports the clouds.
And the huge weight of the bridge
The letter "C" also holds.
A river flows under the bridge —
Concrete bridge for centuries.
The letter "C" - heavyweight.
The letter "C" serves people!
(S. Ostrovsky)
2
What kind of letter
glows with the old clear moon?
Crescent in the dark sky
Letter C hanging over the house
3
Letter C we need to know,
To read the word,
Laughter, ingenuity, airplane,
Letter C calls to fly.
4
The elephant stands so big,
He shakes his head,
He gives us the letter C,
The same O, but in half
the letter T
1
The tram has become under the letter T:
If you want to go, don’t yawn!
T - calls you in a taxi.
You ask the driver -
He will deliver you in a moment
Exactly in the given area
2
T - antenna -
Above the roof -
He will see everything, hear everything,
Turn on TVs,
We don't get bored at the screens.
3
Looks like a “T” antenna,
Looks like an umbrella too.
4
The letter T will cover you
From rain,
From snow,
Heat.
letter U
1
I find interesting,
I, guys, the letter U.
Coal gives us warmth,
Hurricane carries a log.
Knot holding two ropes.
Clever already dexterous in hunting.
There is a corner for punishment.
Ulyana is busy knitting.
2
A duck can do everything -
Catches fish with a fishing rod.
She will have an ear for dinner.
She needs dill for her fish soup.
Lots of "U" words around:
Morning, street, iron.
One-two-three-four-five,
We need to know the letter "U"!
3
Everyone knows the letter from the cradle,
"U-U" the child is buzzing at everything.
Finger raised, looking menacingly,
"UUUU!!!" humming seriously.
4
The letter "U" resembles ears.
A hare on top of its head.
Snails also have horns
So they look like the letter “U”.
letter F
1
And the pheasants asked:
— Find us the letter F, owl.
But, sighing heavily,
Owl hides in a hollow.
Owl even with a flashlight
Can't see anything during the day.
2
Everyone knows without a hint:
The letter F is like the key to a fairy tale.
Never take him away from us
Karabas will not take him away
3
F slightly angry,
Hands resting on the sides.
Owl, flag, hair dryer and lantern...
Here's a dictionary for the letter F.
4
The letter “F” puffed out her cheeks
Or put her hands at her sides.
letter X
1
The letter “X” laughed:
“Although it’s cold in winter,
I’m not tired of sledging
Riding down an icy hill.
”
2
The letter “X”, you are a laugher
And a good boaster!
We will start a round dance,
We will sing together, merrily.
letter C
1
We learned a lot of letters,
We got to the letter C.
There are words where C is at the beginning,
Where in the middle, where at the end.
Chain, flower and number - here
C at the beginning everyone will read.
And in the words Father, fighter
C we write at the end.
A heron walks in the swamp,
Her chicks are waiting in the nest.
The circus will open on Saturday,
The wrestlers have already arrived.
The workshop came to work
Young blacksmiths.
In each line, the letter C -
Like a pebble in a ring.
And each has a page,
On the border and in the capital.
And in the chickens on the porch
There are also two letters C.
2
This hooker letter
With a cunning, tenacious paw.
- Come, whoever cares,
I'll scratch you in an instant.
This is the letter C:
With a claw at the end.
Claw-scratch,
Like a cat's paw
3
Letter C —
Hook at the bottom,
Just like a faucet tank.
4
The letter "C" stands sideways
And catches everyone with a hook.
letter H
1
Letters, letters…
Give them free rein —
Let the letters run wild.
The whole day the PIPE was silent,
I missed the owner...
The letter H came to the trumpet -
The trumpeter found the trumpet.
The TRUMPETER started playing on it —
It immediately became more cheerful!…
2
The letter Ch said: “Yes!”
Saluted someone.
Yes, you made the right decision:
H we write as four.
Only with numbers, friends,
We must not confuse letters.
3
Insects have the letter “H”
Found in crickets and locusts;
Grasshopper, butterfly, bee -
Oddly enough, "Ch" is nice to everyone!
(M.
Yasnov)
4
Turtle Tortila
Grabbed the letter H,
Turtle, come out as soon as possible,
Return the letter H to the children
letter Sh
1
What do we have in the forest with the letter Sh?
This bump flopped, rustling.
A bumblebee and a hornet rummage noisily in the porridge.
Insects in the wild rose.
What else in the forest starts with the letter Sh?
Noise and rustle near the hut.
2
The letter "Sh" in these words:
School, pole, charade, check.
I wrote the letter "Sh":
Three poles and a sleeper at the bottom.
3
The jackal ran along the road,
he lost the letter Ш,
Help me friends,
I can't live without the Ш.
4
Look at the letter Ш —
The letter is very good,
Because
You can make E and Y out of it. Or a couple of breams,
Yes, narvi sorrel for cabbage soup”
2
This letter is from “borscht”,
What is this letter? This is.
.. Shch.
Even the softest sign
Will not soften me in any way!
2
Solid sign "Ъ"
Write like this:
Wheel and match,
Behind - pigtail.
letter Y
1
We will correct the soft sign on Y,
If we add a dash.
The letter Y is famous for that,
What is it from the alphabet.
Do not stand at the beginning of a word,
And at the end, you are ready to stand!
(T. Bokova)
2
"Y" - what a fat woman you are!
Your tummy is like a pillow.
To make it easy for you to walk,
I had to get the wand.
3
In Russian, alas,
There are no words starting with "Y".
letter b
1
It is not so difficult for us to do it,
So that the ship does not run aground.
Cross out the soft sign -
And the waterway is free.
The soft sign stands aside,
Doesn't bother anyone,
But quietly and lightly
Address him.
Salt calls, and the day, and the stump -
And it's not too lazy to help him!
Although he looks quiet -
He will stand up for himself!
Our shadow is getting shorter,
This means the day is coming soon.
The shadow is growing, moving away,
This means that the night is coming soon.
2
A soft sign is a cunning sign.
Don't say it at all.
It is not pronounced,
But it is often asked for in a word.
Why at the house ANGLE
Turned immediately into COAL,
No fire, just like that?
This was done by a soft sign.
3
Let's draw a soft sign
Gently with a drop,
Like this.
A drop will soften the letter -
The word will sound soft.
4
They turned the letter P over
And they sat down as if on a chair,
And they called the letter like this -
Soft sign - "b".
the letter E
1
The letter E on C is amazed,
It looks like it is looking in a mirror.
There is a resemblance for sure,
Only there is no language!
2
Letter E - once Echo
Almost burst with laughter.
Echo fell from the tree,
Laughed to the floor.
3
Above the meadows in the blue
The letter E flies by.
This is a swallow in spring
Returning home.
4
The letter "E" - no matter how you look -
You will see pincers and claws.
letter Yu
1
On the way, in an unknown land,
Compass is our best friend.
One capital letter Yu
South is marked on it.
Above the clouds we fly
Compass south.
To the seashore,
to Southern Crimea,
Where there is no blizzard in winter.
2
So that O does not roll away,
I will nail it firmly to the post.
Oh, look,
What happened:
It turned out ... the letter Yu.
It looks like this -
An old grandmother with a stick.
4
Yu - Yula (or spinning top),
Colorful rainbow barrel.
Neither more nor less -
danced all day
letter I
1
Letter “I” to everyone in the world
Ready to report:
— Do you know who I am?
You don't know who I am?
I am not only the letter "I" -
I am a letter, a syllable and a word!
2
A bunch of apples on the counter.
..
And I noticed, my friends:
If an apple had two legs,
The letter "I" would immediately come out.
Alphabet verses
A verse in which each line begins with a letter of the alphabet.
The stork spent the summer with us,
And in the winter he stayed somewhere.
Behemoth opened his mouth:
Behemoth asks for rolls.
Sparrow asked the crow
Call the wolf to the phone.
A mushroom grows among the path, —
Head on a thin stem.
The woodpecker lived in an empty hollow,
The oak hollowed like a chisel.
Spruce looks like a hedgehog:
A hedgehog with needles, a Christmas tree too.
The beetle has fallen and cannot get up.
He is waiting for someone to help him.
We saw the stars during the day
Across the river, over the Kremlin...
Hoarfrost lay on the branches of a spruce0009 The needles turned white overnight.
The cat caught mice and rats.
Rabbit leaf cabbage gnawed.
Boats are sailing on the sea
People are rowing with oars.
The bear found honey in the forest, —
Not enough honey, a lot of bees.
The rhinoceros gores with a horn.
Don't mess with the rhinoceros!
The donkey was angry today:
He found out that he was a donkey.
Turtle wears a shell,
Hides its head in fear.
Gray mole digs the ground -
Ruins the garden.
An old elephant sleeps peacefully -
He knows how to sleep while standing.
The cockroach lives behind the stove -
Such a warm place!
The student taught lessons -
He has ink on his cheeks.
The fleet is sailing towards the native land.
Flag on every ship.
A ferret walks through the forest,
A predatory little animal.
An important, big-nosed heron,
Stands all day like a statue.
Watchmaker, squinting his eyes,
Repairing watches for us.
Schoolboy, schoolboy, you are a strong man:
You carry the globe like a ball!
I brush the puppy,
I tickle his sides.
This button and cord is
Electric bell.
Jung - the future sailor -
He brought us southern fish.
There are no berries sourer than cranberries,
I know the letters by heart.
Tales of letters | Papmambuk
- Nick Bromley “Beware! This book bites!"
- Boris Zakhoder "The Whale and the Cat"
- Irina Tokmakova "Alya, Klyaksich and the letter "A""
- Georgy Yudin "A Primer. Magic alphabet in pictures and fairy tales»
- Mikhail Raskatov "The Missing Letter"
- Alexander Sharov "The Adventures of Yozhenka and other painted little men"
Nick Bromley
Beware! This book bites!"
Artist Nicola O'Byrne
Translated from English by Maria Pak
Labyrinth Press Publishing House, 2017
Books by French artist Nicola O'Byrne are distinguished primarily by an interesting interactive component, so they are good to read with a small child.
But thanks to the large print, these books are also suitable for initial independent reading. "Carefully! This book bites!”, written by Nick Bromley, can be seen as a fairy tale “about letters”. True, the crocodile, climbing into the book, ate only two letters - "O" and "B". And only on one turn the “conflict” is built around these letters. But is this not enough? It is safe to say that the child will definitely remember “O” and “B”. And if he already knows the letters, then, quite possibly, he will be interested to know what the “missing letter” and “empty space” in the word mean. The word from this is destroyed, ceases to be a word! This, by the way, is the most important knowledge. In addition, the crocodile, as the author informs us, “swallows words and whole sentences” ... A terrible creature is a crocodile. But the child in the meantime learns about the existence of grammatical units!
Of course, both a three-year-old and a four-year-old will most likely miss this information (although this will not save him from resentment about crocodile actions).
But you can and should draw the attention of a child who is already starting to read to this.
Boris Zakhoder
The Whale and the Cat
Artist Evgeniy Meshkov
Rech Publishing House, 2017
Boris Zakhoder’s fairy tale is the most literal one. Its plot is built around mixed up letters: "someone rearranged the letters against all the rules in a fairy tale." As a result, the whale was in the place of the whale, and vice versa. There is a funny confusion. This fairy tale was liked by children of past decades, parents and grandmothers of today's children. And now her humor is not outdated, and rhymes are easily imprinted in memory. Behind the carnival with cats and whales, children discover an important knowledge: the replacement of a single letter, a small icon, completely changes the meaning of the word.
Since “whale” and “cat” are short and simple words in terms of graphics, you can invite the child to draw them.
And you can draw pictures for a fairy tale with the “correct” whale and cat and with the “wrong”, and then sign where who is.
Irina Tokmakova
“Alya, Klyaksich and letter“ a ”
artist Viktor Chizhikov
Labyrinth Publishing House, 2019
Fairy Tale Tale of Irina Tokmakova can be considered the ideal introduction of a diploma to the baby four- five years (i.e. from the moment when the child is already able to listen to fairy tales).
The fairy tale is based on an exciting dynamic plot with a hint of a detective (the kidnapping of the letter “I” by the villain, to save which you need to solve the riddle), with a journey and adventures. There is a confrontation between good and bad characters understandable to a preschooler and a happy ending: everyone is saved, the mission of good heroes is completed.
Most fairy tale characters are letters. But these are not letters-signs, but letters-creatures, artistic images - letters.
They have their own characters and manner of speech, they do things. And this is the most appropriate for children's perception. The fact that the letters act here as "fun little men" instantly embeds them in the world of the imaginative dimension of the child: you can think of them as "alive", you can play with them, you can compose stories.
At the same time, the tale is also filled with sound writing, which is especially evident and distinguishable in the “monologues” of individual letters. The author shows the baby that the letter is pronounced aloud as a certain sound and that the sounds, when merged, form a word. But this is done without a shadow of didacticism, it is an organic part of the plot, which holds the child's attention.
You can also read about this book in the articles "Letters: adventures and transformations" and "My light, mirror, tell me!".
Georgy Yudin
Primer. Magic alphabet in pictures and fairy tales"
Illustrations by the author
Detskaya Literature Publishing House, 2018
Georgy Yudin's book can really replace a primer for a preschooler, since the letters here are depicted as a "cast" from some object or phenomenon, like his transformed image.
But, along with pictures, fairy tales occupy an important place in the book. The fairy tale "around the letter" and the drawn image of the letter form an inseparable unity here. The child looks at the picture, looking for a letter in it, while the adult reads to him a text that uses different words that begin with the corresponding sound.
You can also read about this book in the article "Turkish panties, or how to draw a hieroglyph".
Mikhail Podkratov
“The missing letter”
artist Evgeny Medvedev
Publishing House Kompasgid, 2017
The plot is based on the plot (and from speech) of the letter SH, the need to find it and the need to find it and the need to find it and release. The main characters are first-grader twins, Sasha and Alyosha, whose names change in the most deplorable way with the disappearance of the letter.
The principle of constructing the plot seems to be very similar to that used by Irina Tokmakova in her fairy tale "Alya, Klyaksich and the letter A".
But Mikhail Raskatov's book is much more complicated. There are many more actors involved in various relationships with each other. The characters of the main characters develop in the course of the story (and in Tokmakova's fairy tale, which is addressed to children of an earlier age, the characters of the characters remain practically unchanged). Saa and Alea must overcome themselves in order to regain their normal names. The "restoration" of the name is connected with the reign of order in general. In addition, truly scary characters appear in The Lost Letter, who are called "letter-eaters". They live in a special country where all life is subject to strict rules, the slightest deviation from which is mercilessly punished. Bukvoedy resist the inhabitants of Bukvograd, letters and punctuation marks.
While reading the book, listeners will have to go through dangerous adventures with the characters and take part in solving a rather complicated cipher.
This fairy tale is good to read to children who already know the letters and are gradually beginning to master the skill of reading.
Children who already have the experience of perceiving fairy tales and who love "terrible tales".
You can also read about this book in the article The Missing Letter: A Detective for Little Ones.
Alexander Sharov
"The Adventures of Yozhenka and other painted little men"
Artist Rafail Volsky
Publishing house "ID Meshcheryakova", 2016
The good Artist creates images and his kind fairy-tale world. The Evil Artist also modifies the world, but always to the detriment of the Good, trying to destroy what he has created. This is a completely new view of things for a child: it turns out that creativity can be destructive.
Wanting to finally destroy his good brother, the Evil Artist creates frenzied letters. He creates them from painted snakes. The main quality of the new letters is to sting and make forbidding words. The appearance of frantic letters leads to the fact that everything around becomes "as dead".
The callous letter H guards the captured Good Artist. The bloodthirsty, fanged, insidious letter K leads the army sent by the Evil Wizard. But in the end, the frenzied letters lose their poisonous stings and turn into "good" ones. A rather complex image through which a child discovers that being able to write, to be able to manage letters is not an unconditional blessing.
It turns out that letters can pose a threat to everything human in the world. This is a kind of philosophy lesson for children.
If you think simply about getting to know the letters, then it is better to put this book aside for a later time.
Let the child first learn what letters are and why they are, and only then - that they can be "mad".
But in general, this is an incredibly poetic and at the same time dramatic fairy tale with an unpredictably developing plot, unexpected images and unrelenting tension: the heroes who have not managed to avoid one danger are already facing a new disaster.
