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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?

Learning Letter Sounds - PreKinders

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Phonological Awareness

These games help pre-K children practice Letter Sound learning in a fun, hands-on way.

Sound Cups

Use 26 disposable clear punch cups and label each cup with a letter. Letter cup labels can be downloaded below. Collect a set of small trinket objects (you can ask parents and friends to send things in), such as plastic lizard, small block, watch, plastic frog, bandaid, necklace, button, dice. Place the trinkets in a basket. Children sort each trinket into a letter cup by its beginning sound.

You can use all 26 cups at one time, or select 3-4 letter cups at a time for children to focus on. When searching for items to go in the cups, look for dollar store mini toys (especially packs of animals and bugs), look at doll house miniatures, browse craft stores for mini items.

Download: Letter Cup Labels

Erase the Sound

Draw a picture on a dry erase lap board. In the example below, I drew a snowman. Call children up one at the time to erase something that begins with something in the picture. In this picture, children can erase something that begins with H (hat), something that begins with B (buttons), something that begins with N (nose). Continue until everything is erased.

Mystery Bag

Place three objects beginning with the same letter in a bag (such as ball, bug, and button for B). Have a child pulls each item out of the bag and name each item. Have the class guess the “mystery letter”.

Guess Who?

Say three words and have the kids guess whose name begins with the same sound as those three words. For example, call out:

lake
lemon
lamp

The class would guess Levi. If you have more than one child in your class (maybe Levi, Lucy, and Layton) who start with that letter sound, the class can name all of them.

I have prepared a list of words for each letter that you can use for your students. Download the list below.

Download: Beginning Letter Sounds List

Monster Names

Have kids stand, stomp, and growl when you say their “Monster Name”. Replace the first letter of each child’s name with the letter M. For example, Braden’s name would become “Mad Monster Maden” and Ashlyn’s name would become “Mad Monster Mashlyn”.

Say Two Words

Say two words, and have kids stand up if the words begin with the same sound. Have them sit down if they do not. For example,
cat – cow (stand up)
hat – goat (sit down)

Letter Sounds Listening Games

Children listen for beginning sounds in words and use bingo markers to stamp a letter each time they hear the letter sound. Get the printable game here: Letter Sounds Listening Games.

Letter Sounds Activity Cards

Children look at the picture, say the word, and find the letter that matches the beginning sound. They mark the cards by clipping it or marking it with a chip. Get the printable game here: Letter Sounds Activity Cards.

Letter Tile Mats

Children match letter tiles to the pictures on the mats by identifying the beginning sound of the words. Get the printable game here: Letter Tile Mats.

More Resources

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About Karen Cox

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- Will develop phonemic hearing;
- Will replenish vocabulary;
- Will train fine motor skills.
Advantages of the game:
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2) Sequential study of each letter: we hear, pronounce, write, guess and learn words that begin with a given letter;
3) Tasks for reinforcing the learned letters: contour puzzles and a quiz; nine0007 4) The voice acting is performed by native speakers with perfect pronunciation and clear diction. Thanks to this, the baby will learn to correctly perceive all sounds by ear and pronounce them;
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The 3 best online games for learning the alphabet for kids

A lot depends on how pleasant and comfortable your child's acquaintance with letters will be, including the strength of the desire to pick up books in the future, read, reach for knowledge, do discoveries. Not all adults have the time, talent and patience to acquaint a child with letters, teach him to read, but today this has ceased to be a problem - you can call on the best games for learning the alphabet to help. nine0005

We've reviewed dozens of letter learning apps and selected the top three. To make our review really useful for you, we included primary school teachers, children from 3 to 6 years old, as well as their parents in the research group. Here's what we got:

When choosing, we recommend focusing on the tastes and preferences of your child - let your baby play each of the applications presented, and he will choose the game that he finds most interesting for himself. nine0005

Editor's Choice

Readings - This is a whole world in which the child plunges headlong: 40 fabulous locations, 35 mini-games, original music and watercolor illustrations.
Speaking alphabet - Interactive alphabet, plasticine animation, two learning modes - sounds and letters.
Learning letters is fun for kids! - Another interesting application that offers several game scenarios for memorizing letters. The kid will have to color "smart" pictures, look for objects with a certain letter, listen to rhymes. nine0119

1. "Readings" - application, which will teach your child to read

Here is what the well-known user resource Lifehacker writes about Reading:

“Readings is a sequential learning game. It is simple and clear drawn, as well as easy to manage. The game has a story that captivates the child even more. Sound accompaniment also helps: letters, warehouses and words are pronounced, they are easy to perceive by ear.

And here are the words of the General Director of Methods N. Zaitsev LLC Andreev E.V.

“Readings is an application that will serve as a good addition to learning with Zaitsev's Cubes. We recommend it to those who want to teach a child to read without coercion and stress. ”

We will complete:

Reading is not just an exciting game for learning the alphabet, it is a whole fairy-tale world that opens up to a child. You don't have to offer the kid to play Reading every time - the child himself will ask to turn on the fairy tale. The interface is so simple and clear that the participation of parents is practically not required - except at first. Watercolor graphics, dozens of different locations and tasks: every day something new and interesting awaits the child - a real fairy tale that not only tells about miracles, but also teaches the child a unique magical skill, because those who can read are able to manage time, and travel to different worlds. nine0005

Readings are:

Watercolor graphics, beautiful music, elaborate fairy tale scenario. You definitely won't be bored;
The effect of complete immersion. This effect is supported not only by the children's voice acting of the main characters - no falsehood, pretense, but the main thing here is that the child is actively involved in the fairy tale. The further development of the plot depends on him - and this is a certain responsibility that contributes to greater composure, and hence the effectiveness of training; nine0119
Zaitsev method. To date, this technique is recognized by many experts as the best among all existing ones - learning to read comes smoothly, easily, efficiently. Reading is built on this particular technique, the game moves from simple to complex, which allows the child to believe in himself and practice;
The variety of tasks is another undoubted advantage of Reading. It will not be boring. In addition, the tasks are arranged in such a way that children with any peculiarities of perception memorize letters well and put them into words. For example, all letters are voiced, so phonemic hearing develops in the process. nine0119

Would you like to learn more about Reading? We invite you to watch a short video:

Beware, you can quickly fall in love with this game - you won't have time to look back, and the child is already reading. Parents are also encouraged to periodically look at the Reading blog - news about the application appears here regularly, as well as useful tips and tricks on raising and educating children.

2. "Talking alphabet" - an interactive alphabet, made with love and care. nine0003

The main advantages of the game:

Beautiful graphics and music, cute animals;
Simple interface. Even a three-year-old child will quickly figure out what's what;
All letters are spoken. The child is constantly offered to enter into a dialogue.

Of the minuses, one can only single out a small number of games (there are only six of them) and the lack of a plot that runs like a red thread from beginning to end. In fact, it's just an interactive alphabet - yes, interesting, fun. But the child will not have an unbridled desire to return to it again and again - each game is independent, and after its completion there are no unfinished business. nine0005

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Rounding out our review is the learning game Learning letters is fun for kids. A simple application that preschool children will quickly figure out: cute animation, funny melodies, the ability to learn letters and sounds - it's all captivating and interesting.

By choosing Learn Letters Fun for Kids, you get a game that:

Certainly will interest your child: graphics and music attract and hold attention; nine0119
Offers various tasks for memorizing letters. For example, three objects and three letters appear on the screen, with which the names of objects begin - you need to correlate the letter and the object;
Does not require the intervention and presence of parents - the interface is as simple and clear as possible.

But, as in the case of the Talking ABC, there is no single plot that would lead the child from the first stage to the last. Why is this story so important? Because it forms in the child a steady desire to return to the game again and again - he still has unfinished business there. nine0005

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Important questions about learning to read

When?

No specialist will give you an unambiguous answer to this question - all children develop differently, so you should focus not on age, but on the child's readiness for learning. But there are still certain norms, and they are dictated by common sense: if your child goes to first grade already knowing the letters, or better, knowing how to read, it will be easier for him to adapt to school. We will talk about how to determine the best moment to start learning letters, learning to read, below. nine0005

Where?

Many parents send their kids to special circles where children are taught to read, count, draw and so on from an early age. Zaitsev's cubes, the Montessori method, mental arithmetic, and so on are used. We will not say that this is the wrong approach - the benefits of such circles are undeniable (if competent teachers teach there). But the problem is that such classes are held once or twice a week for an hour. This is not enough. If you want your child to develop faster, you need to deal with him more often, not necessarily by the hour. It is worth focusing on the mood of the child, on his desires. And there are many scenarios of situational games - look for certain letters on car numbers or signs while walking, remember the names of objects with a specific letter, or, conversely, name the first letters of the objects that surround you. nine0005

How?

If you have the opportunity to take your child to special early development clubs, great. If you have the opportunity to regularly engage with the child on your own - great. But if you do not have such opportunities, you can always take advantage of the fruits of technological progress - special game applications that will captivate the child, help him learn the letters, start reading. And most importantly, they will awaken in the kid an interest in learning, and in the future you will remember them with a kind word many times. nine0005

Of course, not all applications are worthy of your attention - some are uninteresting, some are ineffective, some are too difficult for preschoolers. So that you do not waste your time, nerve cells, we have compiled for you the top 3 best games for learning the alphabet: compare, evaluate, play. But first, let's talk about what every parent of a preschooler needs to know.

Learning to read: problems and solutions

The most important thing is to determine when the child is ready to learn. Attempts to introduce the baby to letters too early may fail - the child will not only not learn what is required of him, but will lose confidence in his abilities, lose interest in learning in general. nine0005

How to understand that the baby is already ready to get acquainted with the letters?

He understands what others are saying to him. It is better if he understands not just words, but whole sentences.
The baby has a fairly rich vocabulary. The more words a child knows, the easier it will be for him to read.
The child must build sentences correctly, have good pronunciation. This item should not be considered as a mandatory criterion - it is difficult to expect a perfectly delivered speech from a preschooler, but the baby should speak confidently enough, and you should understand him well. nine0119

How to make your child's acquaintance with letters as comfortable and effective as possible?

There are certain rules that will allow you to make the learning process pleasant and comfortable for the child, respectively, increase the effectiveness of classes:

Exercise regularly and in small amounts. Young children are not able to concentrate on one activity for a long time, especially if this activity requires perseverance and constant attention. But five minutes of practice is better than nothing. And if there are 5-7 such training sessions per day? You will get a full-fledged lesson - which will be useful, while not causing rejection in the child. On the other hand, if the kid likes it, if he is carried away, you should not tear him away from the “lesson” - this often happens if the lessons are presented in a playful way; nine0119
Do not scold the child for failures in the learning process, but on the contrary, praise more often. You should not perceive the failures of the baby as a result of laziness and negligence. In fact, learning to read is difficult - adults do it automatically, and the child has to correlate the letter with the sound, combine sounds, memorize syllables, add them, understand the meaning of each word, and then each sentence, text. This really requires maximum concentration, and also experience - which the child does not have. Therefore, notice even small successes, this will motivate the baby. If you feel that you are ready to break loose and make a remark, stop the lesson, get distracted, return to the letters a little later, when you are in a good mood; nine0119
Read books aloud and discuss what you read. Reading aloud allows you to expand the vocabulary of children, which can then be a great help in learning to read. In addition, a child will be able to understand from a very early age that different worlds are hidden behind different books - interesting, fascinating, incredible. And once the desire to get into these worlds on their own, regardless of adults, will become so strong that the child himself will take a book and begin to try to read. Do not forget to discuss what you have read - ask your child questions that he is able to understand at his age and which he can answer. nine0119

And one more thing. Do not rush to do everything at once. Go from simple to complex. First, let the child get acquainted with the letters and sounds. Then syllables can be made from sounds, then short words. And only when all these steps are successfully completed, you can proceed to reading longer and more complex words.

In order to best prepare yourself for the process of teaching your child to read, we advise you to read our article "How to teach your child to read".

Different methods of teaching reading

There are different methods of teaching reading. And there are no unambiguously bad and good, senseless and effective - when choosing a technique, you should focus on the child: on his age, character, perseverance, his preferences. It is also worth sensibly assessing your capabilities - if you are not ready to regularly engage with your child on your own, you should not choose methods that require your vigilant attention and control.

warehouse reading

Warehouse reading. We are talking about the Zaitsev technique, which is very popular today. Although in fact, learning to read through warehouses was practiced in Rus'. The essence of the method is to forget for a while about letters and attempts to divide words into syllables, which can be short and long, simple and complex. Warehouses are either two or one letter: a consonant and a vowel, a vowel and a consonant, a consonant with a soft or hard sign, or a separate vowel and a consonant letter. Education is supposed to be through cubes, on the sides of which warehouses are written. The cubes are different - in size, color, content, this is done so that the child understands the difference between vowels and consonants, voiced and soft, between different types of warehouses. An undoubted plus of the technique is the playful form and a soft transition from simple to complex. nine0005

Syllabic reading

N.S. Zhukova's methodology, on the basis of which the primer was created. This method of teaching reading was used by the Romans. In Zhukova's primer, a system has been built in which sounds with letters are gradually introduced into speech. At the initial stage, the concept of a syllable is introduced, so that the child learns to read together more quickly.

Sound analytical-synthetic teaching methodology

A method that is now actively used in kindergartens and schools in our country. The technique was developed by A.I. Voskresenskaya, a Soviet methodologist and teacher of the Russian language. Voskresenskaya created a unique order in which children learn sounds and letters. First, kids learn letters that add up to simple syllables and words, then the complexity increases. It turns out that at first children learn syllables of two letters and simple words of two syllables. Then the children get acquainted with the syllables of three letters, where the vowel is in the center. After that, the two stages are combined and the children learn to read words from the studied syllables. Further, words of three syllables and six letters are studied, and then incrementally. nine0005

The role of applications in teaching reading

Just a few decades ago, all options for teaching children to read required patience, tact, and pedagogical skills from adults. And a lot of time. Today, games for learning the alphabet and reading can be called to help.

These applications have many advantages:

Education in the form of a game. This means that the child's interest will be maintained at a high level, which means that you can count on the high efficiency of classes; nine0119
The ability to devote any free time to learning. Remember, we wrote above that it is important to exercise little by little, but regularly - special applications provide excellent conditions for complying with this principle. Got a free minute? Play and learn;
Competent construction of the training program, from simple to complex. Scenario development often involves teachers, speech therapists and other specialists who help make games not only interesting for kids, but also as useful as possible. The child effortlessly gets acquainted with the letters, while he does not have to face unsolvable puzzles, the complexity gradually increases as the child's skills are fixed. nine0119

The application will not lose patience when the child makes the tenth mistake. It will be ready to play with your baby anytime, anywhere, for as long as you need. It will always praise for success and give something as a reward. With its help, the child will get acquainted with letters, sounds, learn to put them into syllables or warehouses, then into words and sentences.

Of course, all of the above applies only to high-quality applications developed by professionals in the field of child psychology and pedagogy. Unfortunately, there are not only useful and interesting games in the public domain, but also those that can be frankly harmful - capable of discouraging a child from learning for a long time. Therefore, the choice of educational applications should be approached as carefully and responsibly as possible. nine0005

You can, for example, listen to the recommendations of Roskachestvo and evaluate factors such as:

The presence or absence of advertising, the imposition of in-app purchases. If every five minutes the child has to interrupt for commercials, the game is unlikely to be useful;
Easy to set up. The interface should be as simple as possible for a preschooler. Instructions for use will also not be superfluous - for parents so that they can familiarize themselves and, if necessary, tell the child what to do and how; nine0119
Data on teaching methods. It's good when the game is built on the same teaching methodology that you use with your child. Otherwise, the baby may get confused when using different approaches;
Application security. This can include items such as parental control, a guarantee of the absence of malware, requests for personal data and encryption during transmission and storage.

It is worth spending a little time to choose from the variety of applications presented the one that can interestingly acquaint the kid with letters, open for him the wonderful world of fairy tales and adventure stories, instill a love of reading. We, for our part, have tried to narrow your search as much as possible - we have selected for you the three best games for learning the alphabet: compare and choose what suits you best. nine0005

Conclusion

All three applications presented in the review deserve to be in the bowels of your smartphone or tablet and form a child's sustainable long-term interest in learning. The child will return to the fabulous worlds of applications again and again to learn how to read - easily, imperceptibly, fun.

Natalia Sosnina

Co-author and methodologist of the Readings educational application. Since 2016, together with her husband and children, they have been developing a game to make learning to read interesting and understandable. The application is based on N.A. Zaitsev. In her free time she likes to spend time with her family and travel. nine0005

Learn more about Natalia on VK, Instagram and the Readings YouTube channel.

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