Letters games for toddlers
50 Fun Alphabet Sounds and ABC Letter Games • Kids Activities Blog
Today we have a whole bunch of ABC 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. Playing ABC games together helps young kids grasp letter sounds, phonics, letter recognition and sequencing through play!
Let’s play ABC games together!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.
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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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!
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Climb the Word LadderWord 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
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Let’s Host a Reading HopReading 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.
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 GameDisappearing 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 CrackersMaking 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
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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.
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 gamePreschool 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?
FAQs for Teaching ABC Sounds and Letters to Kids
How Do You Teach Children the Alphabet in a Fun Way?
We have tons of ideas on how to teach children the alphabet in a fun way, but here are some basic guidelines:
1.
Create a game out of learning the alphabet.
2. Use flashcards in a fun and interactive way.
3. Sing the alphabet!
4. Hands on learning activities make the alphabet fun.
5. Put the letters in context so kids make connections.
What is the Most Important Thing when Teaching Letters?
The most important thing when teaching letters to kids is to make sure that the learning process is fun and engaging. Create a positive learning environment by using games, music, and tangible materials. This will help your child become more motivated to learn and be excited about the alphabet. Additionally, provide lots of fun opportunities for practice so they can become more confident in their letter recognition skills. Finally, praise your child for their efforts and successes along the way.
How do You Make Learning Letter Sounds Fun?
Learning letter sounds can be made fun by incorporating music and songs.
Use recordings and YouTube videos that have catchy tunes and lyrics about the alphabet. Sing along with your child, to help them learn the letters in a more memorable way.
You can also assign each letter with an action to make it easier for your child to remember; like making the sound “sh” and then putting your hands up to your ears like a seashell.
Create word games!
Play charades with letters as clues.
Use tangible materials such as play-dough or sandpaper letters so your child can feel the shape of each letter. This helps them learn to identify and recognize each one more easily.
Alphabet! Kids Learning games on the App Store
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In our new super-app “Funny Food: Learning Letters!” we have put together the most fun and effective methods of learning.
While playing with funny food, your child will quickly and easily become familiar with all the letters of the alphabet, learn how to write them and make the first steps in learning to read!
Every task the app gives your child is a fun and engrossing game! Entertaining stories, active gameplay and excellent usability will ease your child into the learning process.
With the numerous hints and clear interface, children can play without help from adults.
With “Funny Food”, getting ready for school is easy and fun!
To make learning letters more interesting, we created a magical world for each of our mini games. In these magic worlds your child will experience delightful adventures which will encourage them to play again and again.
Our different worlds are:
Factory. Press buttons on the control panel and operate different machinery! Bake delicious letter shaped cookies for your funny friends.
Gas station. Write a letter, and the magic gas station will be open for business!. Instead of filling up the airplane’s tank with jet fuel, fill it up with bubbles, fire, or even rainbows and send the plane into a magic flight. watch the plane take off on a magic adventure!
Chameleon. Funny food is hiding in the grass and catching letters with its long sticky tongue. Help it catch the right letters.
Superhero. Food-superhero rescues letters from mysterious inhabitants of the night city.
The superhero needs your help! Find the right letter!
Island. Participate in a race on the tropical island. Find the hidden letters. Fill up your car and finish the race first.
Snowball cannon. Let’s have a snowball fight! Only the most accurate shooter can shoot a snow letter and hit the target.
Caramel rope. Turn the gadget from side to side, swing the yummy letter on the caramel rope and feed the jolly character.
Playing just a few minutes a day will help your child to acquire the needed knowledge and skills crucial for every preschooler such as:
· Learning letters
· Learning which sounds correspond to each letters
· Learning how to write letters
· Learning a food name for each letter of the alphabet
· Developing fine motor skills
About WOOW! Inc:
This app has been created by WOOW! Inc, a software company which develops learning apps and educational games, interactive books and nursery rhymes for young children and toddlers.
Our kindergarten and preschool apps are distinguished by high quality content with particular attention to design. The simple and user-friendly interfaces of our apps have been especially created for little ones. The purpose of all our apps is aimed for your child's all-round development. With our apps kids learn the alphabet, letters, numbers and phonics. The apps help preschoolers to develop memory, attention span, vocabulary and speech, as well as other basic skills. Children are exposed to writing and counting through building puzzles and doing simple math. As a company we strive to make our apps practical, instilling a desire for knowledge, interest in reading and studying.
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I think there should be more activities available without having to buy them. There’s only 2 available. My little one will get bored of it quickly. I’m trying to find an app to help him with his letters and numbers. Overall I think it helps with that, just wish there was more to choose from without buying!
Hello. Thank you for your feedback. We are very grateful for high star rating from you despite your remark. We offer to pay for our app to help children in their education. In full version are a lot of interesting tasks.
The paid application is alternative to another educational stuff in baby store in real life.
It violates the #1 parent principle. Bad stuff.
This app violates a MAJOR RULE for apps geared toward toddlers. After purchasing the upgrade from the free version, you wind up with a home screen that has 10 games and 3 of them are still locked, requiring additional in-app purchases. So 30% of the available games are still off-limits to your 2 year-old, who doesn’t understand why she gets a pop-up window blocking her progress when she pushes that one, and can’t understand why she can’t have it, and cries, and eventually becomes so disgusted with the fact that she can’t open the one that she has become fixated on that she no longer wants to open any part of this app at all. This is super crappy, unprincipled, greed-driven app design. A word of advice to the makers of this app: parents purchase toddler apps so that everything within the game will just open up for our little ones, and we won’t have to explain or distract or apologize.
It’s a TODDLER APP, duh. Advice to prospective customers: don’t bother. Any reputable toddler app will absolve you from the frustration of additional in-app purchases after it takes your initial $3.99.
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Let's have fun learning letters and animals! Animal sounds! Interesting facts about animals!
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Zverobuka - educational application, alphabet for children.
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Pleasant sounds and melodies in the application will help your child to focus on learning the alphabet and take the first steps in learning to read!
The application will help the child to correctly perceive all the sounds by ear and pronounce them. Pronunciation of letters and sounds, as well as a game of reinforcement will help you learn the alphabet faster and more interesting!
Once on a magical island, the kid will learn a lot of interesting facts about animals, which will make the process of learning letters even more fun. How does a bear growl? What color is a giraffe's tongue? And why is the shark so dangerous? All this and much more the child will learn from our application!
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The effective Learning Letters game for kids uses all the possibilities of perception and interaction: not only sight and hearing, but also touch, even smell and taste! And of course - kinesthetics.
It is important that games with a preschooler are active and fun.
Knowledge of letters is the first step in the formation of reading skills. It is at this stage that a child may love reading or hate it forever.
Here: all the tasks to prepare for school!
Learn letters quickly
What is the fastest way to learn letters with a child? The easiest way is to hang a poster with the alphabet on the wall and read it to your child regularly.
But this method does not work for all children. Unfortunately, many kids get bored very quickly, and they simply "escape" from such activities. If you find yourself in a similar situation, do not despair. There are many fun letter learning games that your child will love.
Before starting to study letters, it is important not to forget: most teachers agree that when studying letters, it is best to memorize their “sound” interpretation: not “Ka” but “K”, not “Be”, but “B”, etc. This is done so that later it would be much easier for the child to learn to add syllables.
What does it mean to remember a letter? This is to remember the location of all elements of the letter. Each letter is made up of several related elements. It takes time and patience for a child to remember them. To simplify this process:
- We connect all types of memory.
- We reduce the distractions from the letter itself. Additional drawings in the letter and next to it interfere.
- We play letters, representing them with the body.
- We apply the law of memory: creating something on our own, we always remember it better. We are trying to create letters from plasticine and salt dough, from various materials at hand.
- We play educational games and learn letters in a fun way.
Card game “Learn letters”
From an early age children are surrounded by letters, and little ones invariably develop an interest in them . To systematize the ideas of younger preschoolers about the letters of the Russian alphabet and help remember them, you can use interesting games , developing tasks , fascinating crafts .
We will talk about all this in this material.
Coloring and learning letters
Everything is simple here. You can take coloring pages with letters and invite your child to color them. The child will engage in creativity with interest, and at the same time consolidate knowledge about the new letter.
So that the process of coloring does not bore the child, you need to use various interesting techniques for this:
- paint letters not only with pencils, but also with paints, wax crayons, stamps;
- lay out letters from sticks, cubes, mosaics, buttons, peas, pebbles;
- model letters from plasticine,
- color with fingers using finger paints;
- use non-traditional drawing techniques: cotton swabs, crumpled paper, blots, etc.
Decorate and learn the letter
Children will love decorating the letters. You can decorate them with plasticine, appliqué, colored glass, designer parts, etc. Yes, whatever you want! Try decorating the letter "A" with watermelons, the letter "B" with bananas, etc.
Constructing Letters
Laying out silhouettes of letters from counting sticks, matches, legos and everything else that comes to hand. Some children may find it difficult to build letters from scrap materials, especially if the baby is under 3.5 years old. With such children, you can design using the "overlay" method. To do this, you can draw simple diagrams.
Composing letters from various materials is aimed at clarifying and consolidating children's ideas about the image of letters; development of fine motor skills, imagination, attention, logical thinking; fostering interest in learning letters.
Letter Maze
Alphabet Sculpting
A very useful activity is to sculpt letters from colored dough or plasticine.
Poems with letters
Any rule, even the most difficult one, is enough to put into a poetic form so that it is remembered faster and better.
Also, with the help of short children's poems about letters, you can achieve fast and effective memorization, and the process of learning letters and writing them will become fun and interesting.
Sound poster game “Let's learn letters”
The meaning of its action is simple - the child clicks on the picture with the letter, and the poster pronounces the sound that it designates.
The only "But" - it is better to buy posters that work in the mode of studying not the names of letters, for example, "Ka", "Sha", "Be", etc., but the names of the sounds that these letters stand for: not "Ka" and "K", not "Be", but "B".
Block game “Let's learn letters”
Wooden toy Tomik Blocks AlphabetBlocks with letters are one of the best aids for learning letters and getting the first experience of reading short words.
Wooden Toy Lucy & Leo Embossed Russian Alphabet BlocksMagnetic Letter Learning Game
A must-have for learning letters for children of all ages - magnetic alphabet.
Magnetic alphabet “Where is the hedgehog?” from Banda UmnikovHalves of letters
Halves - a game to consolidate knowledge of already familiar letters
In the process of learning the alphabet, repetition is important.
Still would! After all, until you reach “I”, you must try not to forget the letter “A”.
Repetition of already learned material will be more fun with the game "Halves". Cut out beautiful cards with letters, cut them into two parts, mix. Invite the child to “fold” the letters from the two halves.
The game is learning letters and writing on the semolina
Children love to draw on the semolina. Without exception, everything - from small to large. Even if your child is already 10 years old and he already seems so big, believe me, he will be delighted with drawing on the semolina.
Trace Game
This is a great game to learn how to write letters. Paint the letter. And then ask the child to circle it with a different color or several colors. The letter, of course, is better to draw on a thick sheet of A4. In this way, you can even "write" whole words.
Memory game
The memory game is also suitable for consolidating the material covered.
At the same time, attention and memory are trained. You will need a set of cards in which each of the pictures with a certain letter is presented in duplicate.
Shuffle the cards and place them white side up in front of the child. Ask him to turn over any of the cards, name the sound that the open letter means. Then the player needs to find exactly the same card among the rest not yet turned over.
He looks for the right letter by turning over the rest of the cards and checking what is drawn on them. Did you open the wrong letter? Flip it back white side up and look for a couple further. When the required card is found, the player takes two cards for himself and the game continues until a pair is found for each card.
Lotto and foil
Another way to learn and repeat letters is loto.
Not all children are enthusiastic about letter bingo. In order to interest the child in this game, you can use foil or paper.
Prepare the playing field and wrap the letter figures in foil or paper.
Invite the child to unfold the letter and put it in its place on the lotto playing field. Lotto can be sound - in this case, you need to put a letter on a card on which an object is drawn that begins with this letter.
Letter Eater
You may have a cheerful Letter Eater at home. The easiest way to do this is to take a glove doll or soft toy. For example, a bear is very unusual. He eats letters. Come on, let him eat the letter "B". And now he wants the letter "A". Oh, how tasty you feed the bear!
There are other ways to play letterbox. Funny people live in this box. They eat nothing but letters. Let's feed them. Mouths of little men - slots in the box. Here is their food: we draw letters with a felt-tip pen on beans and feed the little men.
Each little man has his own letter. If the kid makes a mistake, the little men spit cheerfully, close their mouths and demand to be fed with other food that suits them better: beans with “their own” letter.
Piercer
Draw a letter on paper.
Place a sheet of paper on a carpet or soft sofa and give your child a toothpick. The subject, of course, is sharp, but in 90% of cases, children easily learn safety precautions and there are no problems. Ask him to decorate the letter with holes: pierce the letter along the contour.
Connection of letters and sounds
What sound does "Elephant" begin with? That's right: "C". Where is our letter "C"? Let's give her back to the elephant! Etc.
Beautiful alphabet
“Learn letters” game with mosaic
Lay out a letter from the mosaic according to the pattern. Or a simpler and more interesting option: roll out the dough, draw a letter on it with a felt-tip pen and decorate with a mosaic. You can also decorate the letters on the test with other objects. For example, cereals.
Outdoor game "Let's learn letters - run to the letter"
The good thing about this game is that it's moving - more like a fun game of catch-up than a learning process.
It can be used instead of a mobile pause in class to take a break with benefit.
Hang pictures of various letters on the walls of the room. You can use letters that you "decorated" with your child. And now we give the command to the child: “Quickly, quickly run to the letter C!”. And now - to the letter "A"!
This game not only helps to learn letters in motion, it also develops attention and memory. If the child refuses to run on your command, you can take his hand and run together.
Outdoor game "Jump-jump-team!"
This game is also mobile and therefore children love it very much.
We take a cube with letters. If it's not ready, you can make it. Well, as a last resort, just turn the cards with the letters down with the image and pull them out one at a time. The cube can be made using a children's cube, tape and paper.
Throw the die. What did we get? Aha! "U". What happens on "U"? Snail. Let's show it: put a pillow on your back and start crawling on the floor.
Now what? The letter "C". On "C" we have an elephant! Let's show it too.
Puzzles for children - read by first letters
When a child calls and shows a letter quickly, without hesitation, we can assume that the letters have been learned. If he doubts, thinks, and only then calls the letter (even if he calls it correctly), then this indicates that the lesson has not been passed, memorization is not strong, knowledge about the letter is unstable.
It is necessary to repeat games and exercises with letters until the child learns to reproduce a letter in 1-2 seconds. It is too early to move on to the next stage (reading with this letter).
Syllabary
The syllabary helps children develop the ability to read syllables and words. The principle of its creation is quite simple: vowels are placed in the top line of the table, consonants are placed in the first column, and direct open syllables are placed at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical.
Children are given the entire table at once and it should be in front of their eyes, if possible, for the entire period of learning to read. The table serves as a kind of learning tool in advance and helps children get used to the graphic appearance of letters and direct open syllables, and memorize them faster.
The syllabary is especially useful at the initial stages of literacy, since its main purpose is to ensure the formation of the reading skill of a direct open syllable.
The advantage of the syllabary table is that children who are learning to read, realize the regularity of the arrangement of syllables in the table, learn to find the desired syllable at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical, realize the sound-letter structure of the syllable (combination of a consonant with a vowel) and as a result begin to perceive and reproduce it as a whole.
Direct open syllables are read horizontally and vertically. The table combines two main techniques for learning to read merges.
If we read horizontally, then the same consonant is read with different vowels, i.e. the technique of prolonging the pronunciation of a consonant and the addition of a vowel is used. If we read vertically, then different consonants are read with the same vowel.
Cards with simple words for reading
Learning to read
Despite the abundance of all kinds of developmental books, it is better to learn to read from books. The most popular primers and manuals by Zhukova, Kosinova, Buneev, Zemtsova, Fedin, Gordienko, etc.
More interesting modern manuals can also be used.
For example, “ I want to read: for children 5-6 years old ” from the Lomonosov School series. The purpose of the manual is to teach the child to read in syllables, to write words and sentences in block letters. At the same time, the child learns to distinguish between vowels and consonants and letters, hard and soft, voiced and deaf consonants; determine the stressed vowel and the number of syllables in a word.
