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Teaching the Alphabet to Preschoolers
Are you looking for a better way to teach the alphabet to preschoolers? Teaching the alphabet is so much harder than most people think it’s going to be. Learning to identify the letters of the alphabet plays a crucial role in building a well-rounded early literacy foundation — so getting it right from the start is a must.
Teaching the Alphabet to Preschoolers
When you try to teach the alphabet without actually knowing and understanding how young children learn the alphabet, it can backfire on you and your kids. You have to take into consideration how young children learn best, and then provide them with plenty of fun, meaningful, and most importantly – hands-on learning activities centered around letters.
When your little learners think they’re just playing and having fun, they’ll be more successful, and you’ll also be less stressed.
Letter of the Week
I know you want to get real answers to your most burning questions about how to teach the alphabet to your preschool kids, so listen up because I’m going to be brutally honest with you for a moment.
You’ve probably seen and heard a lot about teaching a letter of the week in your web searches. There are hundreds, possibly even thousands, of letter of the week programs out there touting their many benefits. Those cute hand print crafts and letter of week activities may even seem like perfectly logical and easy ways to teach the letters of the alphabet to your kids. You start with the letter A and end with the letter Z and you’re done — easy-peasy, right?
I’m sorry to be the one to burst your bubble my friend, but teaching the alphabet to preschoolers is a real science that takes much more skill and knowledge than you could ever get by using ho-hum flash cards or worksheets. And gluing buttons to an outline of the letter B? Nope, that’s just a big old waste of buttons, glue, and time for both teachers and children.
Learning About Letters with Hands-On Activities
So, how do you help students recognize letters without doing traditional letter of the week? The answer is fun, hands-on activities that will engage and motivate your kids to learn.
But what does that actually mean? What does it look like in the classroom? The answer is simple, you begin by providing your students with multiple opportunities throughout the day to touch and manipulate letters. Below you can find some of the hands-on alphabet activities that have become favorites over the years in my own classroom.
Alphabet Activities
When it comes to letter activities, they’re not all created equal. The activities that will be most effective will also be those that are most meaningful to your students. By meaningful I’m referring to leveraging their natural interest in certain letters, like those in their own name, to get them interested in learning. For example, Preeti is going to much more interested in learning the letter “P” than David is – that’s how kids work, they’re egocentric — am I right?
But once you get them interested in the first letter of their name, then you can get them interested in the other letters in their name.
From there, you branch out to the letters in their classmate’s names and family members and so on. Do you see where I’m going with this? Make it meaningful and get their buy in up front, instead of being the one in charge and telling them what letter they should be learning and when and how they should learn it. When they take control of their own learning they will learn so much more than you ever thought possible!
Teaching the Alphabet: Hands On Learning
Here comes the hands-on part I promised you. There’s no question that using their own names to motivate them to learn letters is a highly effective method for teaching the alphabet, but when you couple it with hands-on learning — that’s when the magic really starts to happen!
When young children are given ample opportunities to touch, feel, and manipulate 3 dimensional letter models (think magnetic letters) they will learn to associate the shapes of letters with the letter names more quickly.
Essentially, what we have here is the perfect recipe for teaching the alphabet to preschoolers — and your Pre-K and Kindergarten students too!
If you’re wondering how on earth you’re going to keep all of this helpful information straight in your head, I’ve got your back! I created this free eBook, Literacy Essentials, that walks you step-by-step through the process of creating a strong foundation for early literacy success.
Don’t miss these great resources to answer additional questions about teaching the alphabet:
- Which letter should I start teaching first?
- What order is best to teach letters?
- Should I teach upper and lowercase letters at the same time?
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LOTS of Preschool Alphabet Printable Worksheets & Activities
Teaching children their alpahbet letters is a very important first step to reading and writing! Here at preschool play and learn we have a HUGE collection of abc preschool printables to allow pre-k, toddler, and kinderagrten age children practice in a variety of ways.
Preschoolplayandlearn website has alphabet printables for all seasons including: alphabet worksheets, cute alphabet puzzles, plus alphabet matching, free letter tracing, cute letter recognition activities, and alphabet mats to complete with playdough / cereal / goldfish. Simply print the free pages in the pdf files to make learning FUN with over 1000 choices!
Alphabet Printables
for PRESCHOOLERS
Make learning the preschool alphabet fun with these clever alphabet activities for preschoolers and free printable preschool alphabet worksheets! We have TONS of free alphabet printables to make learning ABCs fun for pre k children including:
Whether you are a parent, homeschooler, or classroom teacher – you will love these alphabet activities for preschoolers that get excited about learning while providing lots of practice learning their ABCs.
You can use these with a letter of the week curriculum as a supplement to any home preschool, literacy centers, or as extra practice / summer learning. Either way, children will be excited to practice and show off what they’ve worked on.
Letter Matching
Work on matching upper and lowercase letters!
Fun activities to help kids practice identifying the sound letters make starting with phonemic awareness and beginning sounds.
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Work on fine motor skills while learning your letters from A to Z with these cute ABC crafts! From free printable cut and paste crafts to hand art and more!
Most pre-k kids learn best with hands-on activities! So we’ve come up with lots of fun alphabet activity ideas where kids will “do”. Using our free alphabet printables, preschoolesr will usepopsicle sticks, playdough, cereal, or clever sensory materials to form letters. We also have lots of cute upper and lowercase letter puzzles to work on letter matching plus lots more ways for kids to learn their ABCs.
Plus we have lots of reading reading readiness activities that help preschool children start to learn that each letter makes a sound. These beginning sound activities are simple, fun, and effective for teaching kids about initial sounds. Use free printable alpahbet puzzles, magnetic letter matching, make a flower with a beginning sound activity, or print a gamebaord in our colorful and fun letter sounds game – plus so much more!
Help kids practice visual discrimination as they distinguishing letters with these fun letter recognition activities like find the letter pages.
Fun activities to help kids practice identifying the sound letters make starting with phonemic awareness and beginning sounds. Plus lots of practice tracing capital and lower case letters and strengthening fine motor skills coloring, tracing, and using dot markers.
We have both NO PREP alphabet worksheets and reusable Write & Wipe printables to help children practice forming their letters. Also in this section of alphabet tracing are alphabet mats to practice forming letters with Duplo, playdough, candy, stickers, manipulatives, and more.
Alphabet
Tracing
Preschooler need to not only learn their alphabet letters from A to Z, but the corresponding upper and lower case letters, letter sounds, and more. We have so many preschool printables to make learning your letters EASY and FUN!
The letters "e" and "i" in the prefixes "pre-" and "pre-"
- Trufanova Nadezhda Petrovna
Sections: Russian language
Targets:
- improvement of spelling skills in writing words with prefixes pre- and pre- .
- development of skills in working with an algorithm, reference signals.
- development of the intellectual sphere, development of speech, memory.
I. Dictionary work.
Training exercise - memory test. One student answers at the blackboard, everyone checks. spelling reading.
At go', before form, before turn, to overcome , at to gain ', at to roll out, at rank, at prone, at y't, pre heel, at bow, pre see.
II. The development of speech.
Scattered words. Make an offer from words hard, habits, bad, break up, easy to purchase.
Bad habits are easy to acquire - parting is difficult.
III. Repetition of the rule.
Linguistic fairy tale (read by two students):
Once upon a time there were two consoles. One pre- , other with - . Prefix pre- very kind, very proud, very serious. Pre- made friends with adjectives and played with them in new words: very kind - pre-kind, very proud - proud. Prefix pre - daughter prefixes re- , she is very similar to her mother. Only one letter she did not take from her mother, letter e . Due to the similarity in meaning it can replace trans - in verbs: block - block, to cross - to transgress.
Output:
| Meaningful PRE | = | very | = | RE |
Prefix at - - well-bred young lady.
Show the difference in performing actions.
Does not stomp, but stomps at ,
Will not sit down, but will sit down at ,
Will not open, but at will open.
Output: (gesture with palms) She keeps doing “ a little bit ” – incomplete action. It has the following values:
- “ to each other ” – connection ,
- “ close ” – approximation ,
- “ around ” – proximity.
There are many meanings of prefixes - six. Often make mistakes in spelling words with these prefixes. So let's use an algorithm.
IV. Algorithm.
Reading the algorithm (previously worked with it):
V.
Write down phrases, highlight the prefix, explain its spelling.
pre interesting story, at stop traffic, pre break statement, at road flower, at school district, at raise table, at fail to land, to endure changes.
VI. Warm up.
Let's have a rest. Merry verses. Determine by ear word with a prefix, write down, pronouncing, explain (see algorithm).
| 1. Rook swinging in a hammock, | 2. Sad Clown - |
| 3. I will go to the dense forest, | 4. Fleas came to the fly |
VII. Independent work.
Insert missing letters, write down, check by opening the last line.
If you are in pr and school garden
Pr and ran pr and cover lettuce,
Or tree pr and twist,
Ile greenhouse pr and to open,
Know that here is the prefix AT
Repeat its meaning.
VIII. Generalization.
Working with the card E-I. (Who is wrong, refers to the algorithm).
| E-I card Screw, nail, seaside, long, elderly, |
| E-I card pr…beat, pr…marine, pr…long, pr…old, |
.touch, pr ... fence, pr ... imagine, IX. Homework.
Find in the literary text and write out 8 sentences containing words with prefixes pre- and with - .
Vowels in prefixes PRE- and PRI- / Spelling / Handbook of the Russian language grade 5-9
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- Handbooks
- Handbook of the Russian language 5-9 grade
- Spelling
- Prefixed vowels PRE- and PRI-
Unstressed vowels in the prefixes pre- and with - are pronounced the same, so their spelling may raise questions. The choice of letters e and and in these prefixes depends on prefix value .
! If the prefix denotes addition , approximation , incomplete action , then the letter and are written in it (this is the prefix with - ).
! If the prefix is close in meaning to the word very or to the prefix re- , then the letter e is written in it (this is the prefix pre- ).
Example table:
| Prefix prefix | |
| Prefix value at- | Examples |
| connection | glue, add |
| approximation | arrive, railway station |
| partial action | slightly open, slow down |
| Prefix words pre- | |
| Prefix value pre- | Examples |
| similar to the word very | exaggerate, nasty |
| similar to re- | obstruction, interrupt |
Pay attention!
There are many words in Russian, the meaning of prefixes pre- and pre- in which it is difficult or impossible to determine (overcome, cook, etc.
). The spelling of such words must be remembered or learned from the dictionary:
| Prefix | |
| order invite come in handy getting used to try on reconcile cook purchase adapt take a closer look attend | stop convert turn overcome despise stay |
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We advise you to see:
Letters Y and I after prefixes
Continuous and separate spelling of prefixes POL-/SEM-
Spelling of prefixes raz-, ros- (ras-, ros-)
Connecting vowels O, I, E in compound words
Vowels O and E after hissing and C in suffixes of nouns and adjectives
Words with alternating vowels in the root
Spelling
The rule is found in the following exercises:
5th grade
Exercise Practicum p.
