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English Alphabet
For Arabic Alphabet Resources, click here.
Alphabet Recognition
By the Letter Resources
TJ's By the Letter resources (worksheets, games, mini books, etc)
Alphabet Display Charts
Letters of the alphabet with a picture for each letter.
Created by Talibiddeen Jr. student, “Iluvpandas,” age 11 (2006-2007)
Alphabet and Vowel Learning Posters
Alphabet and vowel charts with learning notes
Progress Trackers
Alphabet Progress Charts: Color in a letter as you learn it
Teacher's Aid: To keep track of letters mastered:
Use this sheet to track progress of alphabet recognition and sounds. Make a mark
under the appropriate column for letters student needs to review/learn. Or use
to show letters mastered.
For one student.
Alphabet Flash Cards & Banner Letters
Pictured cards for each letter of the alphabet (q and x do not contain pictures). The picture is on top and letter on bottom. Put the cards together to form CVC words to sound out. The picture on top acts as a clue to how each letter sounds. Cards can be folded in half so that picture does not show, if desired. Pouch for cards
One large letter per page.
Great for posting on wall.
Alphabet Sequence
Student writes the missing letter or letters in a 3 letter sequence.
Alphabet Activities and Worksheets
Offsite Activities/Worksheets
Creating An Alphabet
Book(CanTeach.ca)
Create an
Alphabet Book(Enchanted Learning)
ABC
Worksheets(Sunniebunniezz)
Alphabet Action(Learning Planet) May not be working
Alphabet Theme
Lesson and Activities(AtoZ Teacher Stuff)
Printable
ABC Coloring Page(Learning Planet) (May not be working)
Alphabet
Printable(Activity Village)
ABC
Activity Sheet
(ABC Teach) (Link not working 4/09)
Alphabet
Pictures(alphabet-soup.com)
Jan
Brett's Alphabet Coloring Book
BeginningReading.com: worksheets
Alphabet Activity Ideas
- Take an alphabet walk around the or neighborhood.
- Play "I Spy" by having children try to identify what you
spy that begins with a certain letter.
- Play alphabet concentration using letter cards.
- Reproduce connect-the-dot pictures that use letters for
each dot.
- Have children perform an action that represents a letter.
(Example: hop for h)
- Provide experiences for tactile activities related to
letter formation. Use pipe cleaners, wax sticks, or salt or sand in trays.
- Give children a clipping from a newspaper or magazine and
have them circle or highlight all the examples they can find of a specified
letter.
- Label objects in the classroom that begin with a letter
you have just taught. Or you can give children cards with the letter on them
and have them attach the letter card to anything in the classroom that
begins with that letter.
- Make an alphabet book. Student finds or draws pictures of
things that start with that letter and also traces/writes the letter and
adds on to book as letters are learned.
Adapted from: Reading A-Z.com
Online English Alphabet Books
by Talibiddeen Jr. - The English alphabet with an Islamic twist!
by Talibiddeen Jr.
An Alphabet Book On-Line (Link not working 4/09)
New & Original
Alphabet Books - Education World
Alphabet Books, other languages
Alphabet Lessons/Curricula
Letter of the Week:
A full curriculum for teaching the English alphabet
Alphabet Teaching Tips
Teaching the Alphabet Tips, by TJ
If you are new to teaching, you may have some questions as to the order to teach letters and how to teach them.
For some personal thoughts on order, whether or not to teach upper and
lowercase, and sounds and letter recognition at the same time, please see TJ's
Blog entry:
"Teaching the Alphabet"
Below is a sample routine for alphabet lessons as well as
activity ideas for teaching the alphabet.
Teaching the Alphabet
Here is a sample routine for alphabet lessons:
1. Alphabet Review (start each learning session with this or similar review
time)
(use an aid such as TJ's
Alphabet and Vowel Learning Posters )
- Recite the alphabet while pointing to each letter
- Ask student to identify the first, last, second, etc. letter of the alphabet.
- Randomly point to a letter and have student identify it
- Ask student to find a certain letter on the chart
- Have student match uppercase letter to lowercase letter (matching game or use chart)
Uppercase/lower case matching cards
Mitten Match-BryBack Manor
- Simple sequencing. What letter comes before/after/between two letters.
- If vowels are taught, have student recite the vowels daily and pick them out in words in books or on the board.
- Flash alphabet flashcards for letters already learned
2. New Learning
Recognition:
- Show student the letter (on a flashcard, written on the
board, etc)
Say: This is the letter ______. Have student repeat the name of the letter.
Sound:
- If teaching sounds of the letter as well or student already knows the name, say:
The letter ______ make the sound _________.
Have student repeat the sound and say (letter) says ___________. - Show student pictures of words that start with that letter. Say the word, emphasizing the sound (e.g. mitten ---> mmmmmmmitten) Have student pick out the letter in the words.
3. Practice:
- Give student rows of the target letter mixed with other letters. Have student pick out the target letter in each row. If student has already learned some other letters, fill the rows with the new letter and previous letter and have student name all the letters. Take an alphabet walk around the or neighborhood.
- You may also give students lists of words and have student pick out the letter in the words.
- Call out words that start with various letters, if a word starts with the target letter, student writes the letter.
- Play games/activities for student to practice recognizing
the letter. See
activities below.
4. Writing
- Show student how to correctly form the letter. Have student practice writing the letter while you watch; complete writing worksheets, write on the board or in rice, etc.
Review Activities, compiled by TJ
- Letter recognition, sound recognition, alphabetical order.
- Lay out written cards with two letters that student has worked with. Give student picture cards of things that start with each letter. Have student sort the picture cards under the correct letter card. As a variation, have student pretend as if the pictures are mail and that he or she is delivering them to the right house (letter).
- Using cards or letter on lids, put them in order and put an object that begins with each letter on top of the correct lid card. Time child to see how quickly he/she can do this.
- Spinner game: Make spinners with four categories (i.e.
food, animals, names, etc) on them. Student spins and lands on a category
and sees how many words he can come up with that start with a particular
letter (or go through the alphabet) that fit the category. Or skip the
spinner and have student name as many "g" animal words, etc.
- Say a word, have student write the beginning letter. Repeat with other words.
- Write letters on the rung of a drawn ladder or set of stairs. Student starts at bottom naming the letters (or saying their sounds) and moves up the rungs/steps. Draw a treat at the top (or place a real one) for incentive to finish. If student misses a letter/sound, he/she starts over again.
- Find things around the house in sequence of the alphabet (first find something that starts with an "a" then a "b" etc.
- Play Pictionary, drawing a word that starts with a certain letter.
- Put 2-3 boxes with the letters student has recently learned/is learning on the outsides. Say words, student must pitch a ball or beanbag into the correctly labeled box (the box that has the letter the word starts with)
Alphabet Learning Materials from Learning Things!
This Page Last Updated:
Friday, December 11, 2009