Letter recognition games for preschoolers
Alphabet Letter Identification Activities - PreKinders
Here are 15 fun, active, hands-on alphabet letter identification activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten.
You can find many more Alphabet Activities here.
Letter Basketball
This is one of my prekinders favorite letter identification activities every year. To prepare this game, I cut copy paper or newsprint paper in half, and write letters on several pieces. I make enough papers for each child, plus one or two extra. I make a line with masking tape on the floor and place the trash can about 4 feet away. As each child has a turn, I tell them which letter to find. They pick up the letter, crumble the paper into a ball, and stand on the tape to toss it into the trash can. If they miss, they get as many chances as needed to get the “ball” in the basket and can move closer if needed. We always cheer when they make it in the basket! This game could also be played with alphabet bean bags if you have them.
Candy Letter Match
Write pairs of letters on sticker dots and place them on the bottom of several Hershey’s Kisses. For my Pre-K kids, I usually put out about 5-10 pairs of letters at a time. Children take turns lifting two Kisses at a time. If the letters match, they keep those Kisses. If they do not match, they have to put them back. At the end of the game, all of the Kisses are put in the middle of the table, and children can choose about 3 pieces to eat. We use this game to practice matching uppercase to uppercase letters, lowercase to lowercase, or uppercase to lowercase, depending on what we are working on.
Alpha-Band
Label each rhythm instrument with a letter. An easy way to make instruments is to put rice inside a plastic Easter egg, and hot glue it closed. We sing the traditional Alphabet Song, or another alphabet song, such as Dr. Jean’s “The Alphabet’s in My Mouth” or “Who Let the Letters Out”, or Jack Hartmann’s “Animal Alphabet Cheer”. Children shake their letter shakers only when they hear their letter called out in the song.
Letter Hunt
Children choose any 10 letters from the letter manipulatives (use foam letters, magnetic letters, letter tiles or other letter manipulatives). Go through a stack of shuffled letter cards, calling out each letter to the children. As the letters are called out, children look to see if they have that letter, and if they do, the letter is put back in the letter basket. We see who is first to clear all of their letters. It’s very similar to a bingo game. In Pre-K, we play until everyone has cleared all of their letters because our goal is learning letters, not competition with the little ones.
*To teach letter sounds: Call out a word and have children identify the first letter of the word.
ABC Sorting Tray
I found this divided tray in a kitchen store. I labeled each section by writing a letter on a sticker dot and placing the matching foam letters in each section of the tray. I placed the letters in a bowl and children sorted and matched the letters into the sections of the tray. When I want to change out the letters in the tray, I just remove the sticker dots and add new ones. I usually try to use letters that are similar, so that children are challenged and use visual discrimination skills to find the differences in the letters. For example, I might use Q, O, D, C, and G since those letters are similar in shape, or I, T, J, or W, V, U.
ABC Sorting Box
Label a craft storage box with letter stickers. Children sort letter manipulatives into the sections of the box. These are magnetic letter tiles in the picture.
Letter Matching Uppercase to Uppercase
For this activity, each child chooses a colored letter box. Children work in pairs to match the letters that are the same. These letters came from a set of foam letters that are sadly no longer available from Lakeshore (bring them back, Lakeshore!) However, you could do the same activity by using handmade cards with the letters written in two different colors. You might also consider using paint chips (paint sample cards) in two different colors and making A-Z sets in the two different colors by writing on the cards with a black marker.
Letter Matching Uppercase to Lowercase
Children work in pairs to match the uppercase and lowercase foam or magnetic letters that are the same. You could also use purchased or handmade letter tiles.
Stamping Game
Write about ten letters on a piece of paper for each child. Put the same ten letters in a bowl or bag, and pass it around the table. Each child has a turn to pull a letter out of the bowl or bag, and announce the letter to the group. Children find the letter on their paper and stamp it out with a rubber stamp.
Other ways we play this game:
- I put every letter of the alphabet in the bowl or bag and children determine if the letter is on their paper or not.
- I place small objects in the bowl and children identify the beginning letter (e.g. B for ball).
Alphabet Bingo
Each child looks for the letter the teacher calls out on their bingo card. If they have it, they cover it. Play until a card is full.
Alphabet Soup
Children take turns scooping up a letter from a bowl with a spoon or soup ladle. The child identifies the letter, and walks around the room searching for the letter somewhere in the classroom.
*To teach letter sounds: Children search for an object in the room that begins with that letter.
Letter Clips
Children squeeze the clothespins and clip them to the sides of the box. I wrote letters on dot stickers and placed the dot stickers around the sides of the boxes. I wrote letters on the clothespins so the children would match the letters on the clothespins to the letters on the boxes. This is similar to activities where children clip clothespins to a paper plate or cardstock circle; however, in my experience, those were flimsy and awkward to use, which is why I like the box better. Any sturdy box could be used (shoe box, postal box). The boxes in this picture were stacking gift boxes that held chocolate covered nuts (a Christmas gift), and they worked out perfectly. (By the way, Sam’s Club has these chocolate covered nuts in the same stacking boxes every year, and they are awesome!)
Memory Game
Place about three letter manipulatives on a tray, cover them with a cloth, and take one away. When the letters are uncovered, children guess which letter is missing. Children find the letter that is missing among their own set of letter manipulatives. If the children are very interested in writing, they can write the letter that is missing on a dry erase lap board. To increase the difficulty of this game, try using 4 or 5 letters. Another options is to place three letters on the tray, cover them, and ask the children to recall all three letters that were on the tray.
Alphabet Path Games
I made these path games using stickers bought in a craft store (scrapbooking section), and I made individual mats with about 10 letters on them. Each child gets a mat, a game piece, and some plastic chips to cover the letters on their mat. They roll the dice and count out the spaces to move their game piece. If their game piece lands on a letter that is on the mat, they cover that letter with a chip. Play continues until they have covered every letter.
Other ways we use the path games:
- Children identify the letter they land on, then find that letter somewhere in the classroom.
- Children find an object in the classroom that begins with that letter’s sound.
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50 Simple Alphabet Activities for Preschoolers
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It’s almost time for back to school for preschool and kindergarten kids and these alphabet activities will come in handy!
How do you teach the alphabet to preschoolers?!
As a preschooler, I don’t really think a lot is expected for them to know. Some basics are good though, like colors, shapes, numbers and letters.
To refresh my preschooler’s memory of letter recognition in general, as well as knowing the uppercase and lowercase alphabet and getting to know some of the letters sounds, I’ve been collecting ideas for activities that Henry can do to get him back on track of school. (Check some more out my ABC Learning & More Pinterest Board.)
Not to mention it’ll be great to get me back into school mode too!
With any learning activities, it’s very important to not crush your child’s confidence. Build on what they already know and expand slowly. And only go further when they’re excited to learn.
We want our kids to love learning! Not dread it.
So if they’re not excited about an activity, put it away until another day.
The big question then is…
How do you teach alphabets to preschoolers in a fun way?
Here are 50 alphabet activities meant for preschoolers that do just that.
Hands-on activities that have the preschoolers playing and involving their entire body while learning their ABCs.
Without them even realizing that they’re learning to recognize the letters of the alphabet, both the upper and lower case… or their letter sounds.
Let’s get on with it and see how to teach the alphabet to preschoolers in a fun way!
Recognizing Letters of the Alphabet
Identifying the letters of the alphabet can be a fun activity for preschoolers to learn while playing!
Here are
25 Alphabet activities to recognize the letters of the alphabet.- An ABC Mat is super handy to have on hand when your child is learning the alphabet! Try an active ABC mat learning game to get them really involved!
- By singing the ABCs the child can find his way through an alphabet maze! Use vehicles or a ball, or even a doll to walk their way through the maze.
- Squirt the Letter.
- Make learning magical with magic letters that the kids reveal as they paint over them.
- Do a letter search and find and match the pieces back together. (Little Hands, Big Work)
- Make a sensory bag to find the letters.
- Get creative and have her feed the monster letters as you call them out. (Little Family Fun)
- Use sticker letters to match to letters that you write on a paper towel tube! (Activity Mom)
- Make letters from pipe cleaners. (Make and Takes)
- Have fun stacking letter tiles! The catch? Name the letter before you can add it to your tower! (Stay At Home Educator)
- Try a magic trick like Playdough to Plato does with a ABC cup hunt game! Which one is the pom pom under?
- Find the letter and trash it! A fun idea from Motherhood on a Dime.
- Playing House does a bean bag toss into a letter tub that you call out.
- An activity twist on musical chairs, play musical alphabet with your preschooler and identify the letter you stop on! Kids Activities can make this more difficult for older kids too!
- Fish for Letters from First Palette. Can you identify your ‘catch’?
- Letter “I Spy” with Grown Up Board Games from A Heart for Home.
- Make these simple ‘building blocks’ so your child can build a letter and then tell you what it is! (Simple Real Moms)
- Write the alphabet on the sidewalk and water the ‘garden’. (Toddler Approved)
- Magnetic letters matching from NutureStore make great alphabet games!
- Simply make it a race! Lay out some letter cards and shout out a letter, have your child run as fast as they can to find it and bring it back to you. (Frugal Fun 4 Boys)
- A classic from my childhood. When in the car and traveling, do an alphabet hunt. (Teach Mama)
- Let the children play on a typewriter, or old computer keyboard. (picklebums)
- NurtureStore reinforces alphabet identification by baking the alphabet.
- Another use for the ABC Mat is to play twister! (Learners in Bloom)
- Homemade letter sponges for the bath from Learning 4 Kids are a fun learning addition to bath time!
Additionally, these products are excellent to have on hand when learning letters.
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- Alphabet Foam Puzzle Mat
- Foam Bath Letters & Numbers
- Large Wooden ABC 26-piece Puzzle
- Melissa & Doug Classic ABC Block Cart
- Alphabet Fun Flash Cards
- LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Alphabet Set
These provide amazing opportunities for letter or alphabet games and activities to do at home!
Learning Uppercase & Lowercase Letters
Lowercase letters tend to be harder for preschoolers to identify as well as match up with their uppercase counterparts.
Here are 9 alphabet activities to help preschoolers distinguish between upper and lower case letters.
- Got on a letter hunt and match the found letters to a set of lowercase letters!
- Match uppercase and lowercase hearts using a free printable.
- Write lowercase letters on clothespins and have your child match and clip them onto an uppercase letter that’s printed (or written) out. (I Can Teach My Child)
- Bring out the Easter Eggs. Label each side with corresponding upper and lowercase letters! Can your child put the eggs back together? (Teachers Pay Teachers)
- Learn letters on the go with two paper plates, one with lowercase, one with uppercase letters. No Time for Flash Cards has the how to.
- Make learning the ABCs a big event! Turn the floor into a mega doodle of letters and then match corresponding letters to it! (Filth Wizardry)
- Match upper and lowercase letters on the sidewalk.
- Practice writing while also learning both upper and lowercase letters by using a tray of salt. (Teach Preschool)
- Play a game of alphabet bingo. (Teach Mama)
Letter Sound Activities
Many of the activities for preschoolers that are listed for recognizing the letters of the alphabet can also be adjusted for learning the sounds of the letters too!
Here are 16 alphabet activities for preschoolers to work on the sounds of the letters!- Go on a hunt for toys that start with the letters and then got to punch through for a prize in our letter sound punch alphabet game.
- Make an alphabet game to sort by beginning letter sounds.
- An active way for the kids to learn their letters is simply with a ball and shouting out words that start with a letter! The Pleasantest Thing gives us many variations of this alphabet game in her guest post!
- Take learning outside with a sidewalk letter sound scavenger hunt like No Time for Flashcards.
- Another version of this would be to spray the letter that makes the sound from Train Up a Child.
- Indoors, set out some cups and letters on them and have the kids find as many toys as they can that start with each letter. (PreKinders)
- Simple. Kids love to pretend to ‘work’. Give them tees and a hammer and pound the sound idea from ABCs of Literacy.
- Add letters to muffin tins and toss a small object. Where it lands the child has to tell you what sound that letter makes. This idea’s found at ABC & Learning by Playdough to Plato.
- Do a beginning letter sound toy wash!
- Climb up the stairs when you get the right letter sound from A Mom with a Lesson Plan.
- Make a collage from magazine cutouts for letter sounds. (Carrots are Orange)
- Get active with a letter sound jumping game from The Imagination Tree.
- A Run N Spell alphabet game from Having Fun At Home gets the kids moving and learning starting letter sounds.
- “Baking” the Alphabet on a hot day from Not Just Cute. Hungry for a banana? Fill up the letter b-b-b-B!
- Alphabet bowling with letter pins from Toddler Approved
- Use letter pops (sticks with a letter on the end) to have the kids identify objects from around the room or house that start with the same letter. (Dr. Jean & Friends)
- Match toys to letters with this hands-on sound activity from No Time For Flash Cards
Fantastic books for learning ABCs:
Supplement these learning activities with books and your preschooler will be singing, reciting, spelling and sounding out the ABCs in no time I bet!
- Alphabet Book (Farmyard Tales Books Series)
- Alphabet Rescue
- Alphabet Mystery
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
- I Spy Letters
I’d love to know.
When was your child able to identify some letters of the alphabet?
Henry learned his alphabet really early it seemed. Identifying a few letters when he was 20 months old and knowing almost the entire alphabet when he was just over 2 years old.
George on the other hand has no interest yet at 22 months so it’s not on our radar.
If you have an eager early learner, these beginning learning letter activities are perfect for toddlers!
Onto numbers! 40 number activities for preschoolers too!
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Learn to Read Games for children to learn to read
Learning to read is a difficult task for young children. At times, learning to read seems completely impossible, especially if the child has dyslexia due to phonemic hearing impairment and neurological problems.
Learn more about diagnosing dyslexia in a child in an article on the eKidz.eu blog. Fortunately, teachers and parents can successfully prevent reading difficulties in their children and enjoy it too! To do this, starting from preschool age, play games with words and images that develop visual and auditory perception, hand-eye coordination and spatial orientation, memory and attention of children. Educational games are easily integrated with other games that children have already played and will help foster a love of learning from childhood.
Let's learn some auditory and visual games!
Games for the development of verbal perception
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and reproduce sounds, to understand that spoken words and syllables consist of a sequence of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992). Phonemic hearing begins to develop immediately after birth, and already at an early age the child already understands the acoustic characteristics of sounds. However, in case of underdevelopment of speech, pronunciation disorders and difficulties in reading and writing in the future may occur.
So, here are a few games for the development of auditory perception and attention, recommended for children from 3 years old: "Guess the Sound" For example, put a blindfold on your child while you make sounds like snapping your fingers, clapping your hands, or tapping on the table.
"Where is the sound?" - determine the location of the sound: "Guess where it's calling" For example, hide an object that will make noise (such as a timer or your mobile phone) in a room, and then compete to be the first to find the hidden object.
Animal Sound Recognition “Guess who makes that sound?”, “Who is hiding in the house?” For example, make the sounds “woof, woof” like a dog, “meow” like a cat, or “moo” like a cow, and ask the child to guess the animal.
For the development of speech (phonemic) hearing, which is responsible for the identification of speech sounds, it is recommended to regularly involve children in games from 4-5 years old:
- "Catch the sound with your hands" - the development of sound recognition.
For example, ask a child to clap his hands as soon as he hears a certain "r" sound, and then say "The radish rarely grew in the garden, the garden was rarely in order."
- "Guess the object by the sound" - definition of the object that makes the sound:
"Guess the Sound" "Where is the sound?" - determining the place of sound in words by inserting a diagram into words.
For example, write out the sentence "Two plus two equals four" and have the child point wherever the letter "T" sounds.
“How many sounds?” - show as many fingers as the sounds were played. For example, say the word "elephant" and help your child understand that there are 4 sounds for each letter in the word.
- Select Image - Select an image that has a specific sound when the object's name is spoken aloud.
For example, take the colored cards and ask the child to identify each where the sound "C" is present and help the child understand that the common meaning for the color names "Blue" and "Grey" is sound.
Games for the development of visual perception
Due to insufficient development of visual recognition, children may confuse similar letters, name them incorrectly or have difficulty remembering them. To avoid this, play image games. It's fun and productive.
Spot the Difference - look at a couple of pictures and try to find the differences.
"Overlay Images" - look at 3-5 contour images (objects, geometric shapes, letters, numbers) superimposed on each other and try to identify all the pictures.
"Hidden images" - give the child several shapes consisting of elements of letters and geometric shapes. Try to find all hidden images
"Noisy" images - show your child some noisy, contour images of objects, geometric shapes, numbers or letters. Try to name and identify all objects.
"Find a Pair" - show your child pictures of several objects that are similar but have slight differences. Try to define two identical objects.
"Unfinished Images" - Examine images with missing elements, such as a bird without a beak, a fish without a tail, a flower without petals, a sleeveless dress, a chair without a leg, etc. add details to complete the drawing.
Dot Images - Show images of objects, geometric shapes, letters or numbers made up of dots. Try to name objects.
"Inverted Images" - show schematic representations of objects, letters, numbers, reversed by 180°. Then try drawing the object upside down.
"Cut image" - cut the image into 2-3 parts. Children must assemble a whole picture from these fragments, like a puzzle.
For school-age children, all the games offered can be played with letters and numbers. This is how you work on developing visual fluency. And the following games will definitely appeal to older children!
"Find the letter" - select any text and while reading it, underline the letter "A" with one line, the letter "H" with two lines and put a dot under the letter "O".
"What has changed?" - invite the child to look at several cards with letters (words, numbers, geometric shapes, etc.) and turn away or leave the room. After changing the cards, the child must determine what has changed.
"Find mistakes" - give a card and try to explain and correct the following errors:
Spelling - an additional letter is omitted or inserted;
Arithmetic exercise - an error in the calculation, for example, one digit in mirror image;
In sentences, an incorrect word is inserted or completely omitted.
Regular use of these games will positively affect the child's intellectual development and prevent visual and auditory difficulties in writing and reading. Try to start playing these games with your child and see how fun it is to learn and play at the same time! You will be surprised at how quickly children grasp new knowledge.
Aromshtam Marina | Literacy in images and movements
Continued. See the beginning in No. 18, 19, twenty, 21/2008
Drawing by M. Ovchinnikova
Lesson 6. Letter Y
Lesson begins with a sound game (on choice) and a letter recognition game.
Talking to children
The teacher asks the children to look at a picture with a painted house near Bukvoedskaya fairy tale. “What letters lived in Petya’s house? What happened when Grandfather-Bukvoed decided to cook in one cauldron letter o , a , y , y and the letter y ?
What letters are the result of this sorcery? What sounds does the letter and represent? What sound is sung when we sound the letter I ?
Tasks for children
embossed letters letter i ".
2. "Put the letter on the landscape sheet and circle around contour. Remember: the head of the letter i always looks to the left. Color the letter.
3. Before the children - rhyming cards. teacher reads the rhyme aloud:
Yasha walked through the forest, |
“Find in the rhyme all the letters and . Circle them with an orange triangle. Then find in the text the letters and , for , for , and ".
4. The teacher puts up on the board or in middle of the circle demonstration pictures. Under them are words with a missing first letter.
“Look at the pictures. What's on them drawn? Words under the pictures start with the letter i . Enter the letter i instead of passes. The teacher calls several children who draw the missing letters in words.
It is proposed to say these words again. At pronouncing the word, the teacher each time indicates to the letter and at the beginning. It's convenient, so how all words begin with a stressed syllable.
5. “Choose any picture and draw a similar one. Sign her copying the word.
Homework for those who wish: draw capital letter i and turn it into your "letter" portrait.
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Sessions 7-9 (letters E, Y, Y)
Activity scenarios 7 (letter e ), 8 (letter y ) and 9 (letter - ) are the same as in session 6. The teacher, if desired, can vary the sound games and games with letters.
Rhyme in which to find the letter e :
Children ate on their birthday |
Rhyme to find the letter :
Snowstorms are whistling in the north. |
To fill in the gaps in the words below pictures starting with the letter Yu , you need solve riddles:
“The first word is the name of the boy. His name is ... ( Yura ).
The second word denotes the direction of the world: not north, a… ( south ).
The third word means mobile home, made from animal skins… ( yurt ).
You have to guess what these words are, and write in them instead of gaps the letter and .
Looking at the pictures in class, dedicated to the letter ё , we answer the questions:
“What is shown in the pictures?” into words under the pictures, instead of gaps, insert the letter e .
“Which picture in the row is missing? Why?"
Lesson 10. The letters Y, Z, E, Y
The lesson begins with a sound game (on choice) and a letter recognition game.
Tasks for children
1. In front of each child is a card with contour house (, see No. 21 ). “Here is the house. Place the letters a , o , y , e , s into it.
2. “Draw another house next to it and populate it with Petya's new acquaintances: here you must live letters i , i , i , e ".
3. “Read the letters in the boxes of the new house. Can you sing the sounds that hide inside these letters?
Of course you can. After all, ours live in them old acquaintances - sounds [a], [o], [y], [e], those that stuck together with the sound [i]. So i , i , i , e - letters for vowels. And since in them the sound [i] still lives, they are called iotized.
4. Game "What is the last letter?".
First option. In front of children - cards with letters i , i , i , e . The leader (teacher) comes up with a word, which ends with an iotized letter, and says: "In the word" family ". ..". Children should finish the sentence: "... the last letter is i " - and show a card with the letter and .
Master: In the word "spear" ... | Children: ... the last letter of is . |
text cards.
Second version slightly different leader's words.
Master: I'll sing a song for you. | Children: Last letter y . |
When the children have mastered the game, you can offer them to try their hand at the game one by one.
Homework for those who wish: draw all the letters that were found in fairy tales.
Lesson 11. The letter I
Lesson begins with registration exhibitions and viewing of drawings. teacher asks children to read the drawn letters.
Letter recognition games are held, reading interjections, singing sounds.
Reading or storytelling text
The pencil squeaks slightly.
But the letters look great!
The one who knows these letters,
He will easily revive them:
Once - and read the letter,
The letter will sound right away!
How good are you at drawing letters and bring sounds to life! How can you not be happy here? don't smile! Do you know what sound is the most smiling? Come on, smile and try it yourself guess. Of course, this is the sound [and].
It is no coincidence that he is heard in a very important the word "peace". The word "game" begins with it.
There is a special letter for the sound [and] - letter and . ( The teacher shows a card with letter and . ) Perhaps she was born from our smiles:
Smile - and the letter and
Give us a gift!
Tasks for children
0123 and . Read it."
2. “What sound does the letter and stand for? Can this sound sing? The sound [and] consists of voices, that means he…”
3. “Come up with words that start with to the sound [and], in which the sound [and] is heard in the middle, in the end".
Dictionary : games, name, willow, spark, Ira, Inna; world, feast, shooting gallery, view, rice, reef, rhyme, rhythm; talk, take, wake up, sit, look, fly.
4. In front of children - rhyming cards:
Ancient General Kir |
"Find in the rhyme all the letters and , put a red dot under them. Then at icon help highlight others the letters you know to represent vowels. What letters for vowels were not in the text?
Lesson 12. The letter I and other letters for vowels
The lesson follows a familiar pattern.
Tasks for children
divided into boxes ( see
No. 21 ). "Place houses. In one house there will be live letters denoting vowel sounds in another - letters denoting two sounds - the sound [i] and vowel".
2. “Count the windows in each house. How many occupied apartments in the first building? How many occupied apartments are in the second building? A free window remained in the house for ioted letters. The letter will live with them and . Settle her in an unoccupied apartment.
3. “The letter and can also represent two sound - sound [i] and sound [and].
Listen:
Sparrows made a noise -
“Whose are you? Whose are you? Whose are you? Whose?".
“Rays woke us up
Sunshine, brooks murmur.
And now let's play.
Game "What is the last letter?".
In the word "nightingales" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "sparrows" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "ants" - ... the last letter is and .
In the word "brooks" - ... the last letter is and .
There is a rook. — No… ( boats ). — The last letter is and .
There are hits. - No ... ( hits ). — Last letter and .
There is a tub. - No ... ( tubs ). The last letter is and .
4. For children, cards with pieces letters they know. "Restore the erased letters." Tasks can be individual: children restore different letters and identify them. You can suggest coloring and decorating recovered letters.
5. Find your house game: completed work to restore letters, children become holders of cards with the image iotated or non-iotated vowels. By wave of the "magic" wand for the time of the upcoming games they themselves turn into these letters.
"Letters" of each group are collected in their own "house". It could be a circle a hoop or rope, or a flag, another symbol, around which you have to stand, holding hands, or really drawn on a dense paper or fabric on a dense base house with cells like the classics.
At the first signal, children scatter around the room, on the second they gather to your house. That team wins, "letters" which will be assembled faster. To
complicate the game, the host can change all the time team gathering place.
6. The lesson ends with the game “ Expressive sounds ". The mood of the sound [and] is added: “... We pronounce the sound [s] with malice and with a threat: teeth bared, fists clenched, whole body tense.