Teaching kids to read -part 2 “A is for alphabet”

We started with the alphabet when Bee was around 2. We did not add any phonics at this stage. We started with lower case letters and moved to uppercase.

Here are tools and strategies we used:

1.Plastic magnetic alphabets

We had the ritual plastic magnetic alphabets on our refrigerator door. Bee would toddle her way to the colorful alphabets and point to them. We would say out the alphabet name–no phonics at this point.

2. Paper and pencil

We wrote  individual characters in a notebook and associate the name with the form.

3. Alphabet song

We started singing the alphabet song to reinforce the alphabet

4. Elmo alphabet song on youtube.

Lots of patience and repetition over months. We had small sessions of less than 10 mins 2-3 times each week when we are all in the mood.

October 8, 2011. Tags: teaching alphabet, teaching kids to read. Bringing up baby.