4. Teaching Alphabet – Step by step

Telugu Alphabet

 

Here’s what a preschooler should know before kindergarten:

• Recite/sing the alphabet
• Identify uppercase letters
• Identify lowercase letters
• Match uppercase letters to lowercase letters
• Identify the sounds each letter makes
• Traces letters
• Write some alphabet letters

1. Sing Songs:

Singing the alphabet song to your child introduces the letters to them in a fun way. Start singing to them as a baby and as they get older, have them start singing along (which they probably will do naturally!).

2. Read Alphabet Books

Read all sorts of alphabet books to your children, even starting as babies. The repetition will really help your child learn the alphabet at a young age.

3. Sandpaper Letters

Using sandpaper letters is a great way to introduce letters to children.
This is a perfect pre-writing activity because children use their finger to trace the sandpaper letters.

Sandpaper letters are part of the Montessori approach to learning how to read. These letters provide a tactile and visual way to help children learn the alphabet. In the Montessori method, you teach letters to a child in the 3-period lesson.

1^st period is introducing the letter (“this is” period). Show your child the letters. Have them trace the sandpaper letters. The best way to teach children alphabet letters is by telling them their phonetic sound.  So each time they trace the letter, say the phonetic sound.

2^nd period is association (“show me” stage).  Ask your child to follow simple directions with the letters. For example, please pick up the /m/ and set it by the window. Continue to do this with each letter several times to reinforce this. If it is too difficult, return to the first period.

3^rd period is recall (“what is this?” period). Only go to this period when they’ve mastered the other two periods.  Put a letter in front of the child and say “Can you trace this and tell me what it is?” Continue with the other letters in the same way.

When you use these sandpaper letters, you are teaching them 3 things: the shape of letters, the feel of its shape and how its written, and how you pronounce its sound.

4. Alphabet Puzzles

I think teaching letters with alphabet puzzles are an amazing tool for teaching the alphabet. This is my favorite puzzle, from Melissa and Doug. It’s a beautiful wooden puzzle with neat pictures. This is a great way to practice vocabulary and verbal skills, too.

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1: Begin with the alphabet.

The alphabet is where reading begins. The 26 letters that make up the English alphabet are used to form all of the words in the English language, so this is the place to start. There are several ways to get familiar with the alphabet; pick the one that suits you and your learning style.

• Sing it. It may seem silly, but there’s a reason so many people have learned the alphabet by singing the “alphabet song”–it works. The melody aids in memorization and the song as a whole gives learners a picture of the entire alphabet and the relationship between letters.
  • You can listen to the alphabet song online or get someone you know to sing and record it for you so that you can listen to it over and over again as you learn it.

• Feel it. If you’re a hands-on learner, consider buying sandpaper letters. Look at a letter and then close your eyes, trace your fingers over the letter and repeat the name of the letter and its sound. When you’re ready, pick your finger up off the sandpaper and write the letter in the air.
• Move it around. Pick up a set of alphabet magnets as a way of learning the individual letters as well as the way they’re sequenced in the alphabet. Later, you can reuse these letters to practice forming words.
• Walk it out. If you have the room, try using an alphabet mat as a learning tool. Say each letter and its sound as you step on that letter on your mat. Have someone call out letters or sounds at random and step on the correct corresponding letter. Get your whole body (voice included) involved by singing the alphabet song and making up a dance as you step your way through the alphabet.

 2. Distinguish vowels from consonants. 

There are five vowels in the alphabet: a, e, i, o, u; the rest of the letters are called consonants.

• You make vowel sounds in your throat with the help of your tongue and mouth while you form consonants by using your tongue and mouth to control the flow of your breath. Vowels can be spoken alone, but consonants can’t.

• For example, the letter A is simply “a” but B is actually “bee,” C is “see,” D is “dee” and so on.

 

 3. Use phonics. 

Phonics is all about relationships, specifically the relationships between letters and sounds in a language. For example, when you learn that the letter C sounds like “sa” or “ka” or that “tion” sounds like “shun”, you’re learning phonics.

• Find an approach that makes sense to you. Phonics is typically taught in one of two ways: by what’s called a see-and-say approach in which you learn to read whole words or a syllable approach in which you learn how to sound out different letter combinations and put them together to form words.
• To learn phonics, you must hear the sounds of the syllables and/or words. To do that, you need to find an online program, purchase or borrow a DVD from your local library or work with a family member, friend, tutor or instructor who can help you learn the sounds created by various letter combinations and what those look like written out.

 4.  Recognize punctuation marks. 

It’s important to know what common punctuation marks indicate when you’re reading because they can offer information about sentence meanings.

• Comma (,). When you see a comma, you’re meant to pause or slightly hesitate when you’re reading.
• Period (.). A period indicates the end of a sentence. When you reach a period, come to a complete stop and take a deep breath before continuing to read.
• Question mark (?). When you ask a question, your voice goes up. When you see ? at the end of sentence, a question is being asked, so make sure your voice rises when you’re reading.
• Exclamation point (!). This mark is used to emphasize an important point or to grab attention. When you read a sentence that ends with !, be sure to sound excited or to strongly emphasize the words.

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Beginner Printable Word Search

1. Food word search and word association Exercise
2. Food quantifiers/Determiners Word Search
3. Time and Daily routines word search
4. Jobs vocabulary word Search
5. Birthdays, ordinals numbers & months word search
6. Chores and helping at home word search
7. Beginner Adjectives opposites word search
8. Household items vocabulary word search
9. Action Verbs wordsearch and Matching Exercise
10. Asking for directions word puzzle
11. Possessive Pronouns Word search
12. Our Pets wordsearch and exercise
13. Food/Quantifiers & food adjectives
14. Jobs/occupation
15. Months/ordinal numbers
16. Festivals/Holidays
17. Months of the year
18. Countries/cities of the world
19. Months and seasons
20. Weather and seasons word search
21. School subjects word search- what we study at school
22. Places around word search
23. Family word search
24. shapes, colours and numbers search and match
25. What we do on the school playground
26. Things we like doing
27. Festivals Word search puzzle
28. Household items word search puzzle
29. Good habits word search puzzle
30. Solar system word search /Comparatives/superlatives
31. Space and Solar System word search & Comparatives/Superlatives
32. Taboos word search puzzle– lower levels
33. Taboos word search puzzle – higher levels
34. Plants word search puzzle – plant vocabulary
35. Weather and seasons word search puzzle
36. Weather and seasons word search & word scramble
37. Weather and seasons gap fill and word search
38. Beginner Review Word Search Exercise

• Medium/ Higher Levels Word Search

  1. Going shopping word search and gap fill exercise
  2. Going shopping easy word search
  3. Health & Sickness word search
  4. Describing people word puzzle
  5. Jobs word puzzle – higher levels
  6. Summer Holiday word search Activity
  7. Activities/Hobbies word search puzzle
  8. Computer parts word search puzzles
  9. Past Participle Word Search
  10. Products & Materials word search- made of, made in
  11. Simple past tense word search
  12. Olympic Games word search- Sport vocabulary
  13. Comparatives : Big, Bigger, the biggest
  14. What we do everyday-adverbs of frequency, daily actions
  15. Fancy Clothes and costumes vocabulary word search
  16. sickness vocabulary word search
  17. Movies word search and Vocabulary activity – Movies matching Exercise
  18. Australia search, search words related to Australia, plan a visit to Australia.
  19. Pre-intermediate job search and job sentence scramble
  20. Simple past tense word search and vocabulary grouping
  21. comparatives/superlatives
  22. food/diet/health
  23. Materials/products/origin
  24. Our Solar system
  25. Weather/months/seasons(more challenging
  26. Ill health talk

 

• EASY CROSSWORD PUZZLES

1. What time is it? Have fun solving crosswords related to time and daily activities
2. My Toys- Good toys crossword activity for young learners
3. Word opposites- Beginner adjectives & opposites crosswords
4. Jobs crosswords- Learn vocabulary related to jobs by solving this crossword
5. What’s the weather like? Weather, hot, cold sunny crosswords

• MEDIUM WORD SEARCH PUZZLES

1. What do we study at school? School subjects vocabulary crossword puzzle, History, Geography etc.
2. Household chores- How do you help at home-solve crosswords on chores vocabulary
3. Country and city crossword puzzle exercise
4. Olympic sports vocabulary crossword exercise
5. Household items & furniture vocabulary crossword puzzle

• HIGHER LEVEL WORD SEARCH PUZZLES

1. Materials & origin crosswords, What’s it made of? – Diamond, gold, silver, leather etc.
2. Present perfect grammar crosswords- Use sentence clues to find words
3. What will you be when you grow old- solve jobs vocabulary, astronaut, reporter crossword puzzle
4. Why do you have to do it? Practice using verbs + infinitive as in need to, want to, have to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lyrics

A is for apple a a apple

B is for ball b b ball

C is for cat c c cat

D is for dog d d dog

E is for elephant e e elephant

F is for fish f f fish

G is for gorilla g g gorilla

H is for hat h h hat

I is for igloo i i igloo

J is for juice j j juice

K is for kangaroo k k Kangaroo

L is for lion l l lion

M is for monkey m m monkey

N is for no n n no

O is for octopus o o octopus

P is for pig p p pig

Q is for question q q question

R is for ring r r ring

S is for sun s s sun

T is for train t t train

U is for umbrella u u umbrella

V is for van v v van

W is for watch w w watch

X is for box x x box

Y is for yellow y y yellow

Z is for zoo z z zoo