Teaching kids to recognize their letters...

Mickschick

So I'm going to start doing "Letter of the Week" next week with the twins. I'm going to use the ideas that are found here: https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/

My question is- if you've done something like this did you go in alphabetical order (like Upper Case A the first week, Lower Case a the second week, Upper Case B the third week...) or did you just pick letters at random and do all the upper case and then when they were done start lower case- but in no particular order?

I'm not sure if it even matters- LOL... I'm just curious...

brightning

We're doing all uppercase first, in order. Then we'll do numbers. Then lowercase letters.

omurray

I did "Letter of the Week" for awhile, when my son was interested.  When he lost interest, I stopped.  I think we got to G.  I did them in alphabetical order, for no particular reason.  I believe the way the lady from "No Time for Flashcards" does it is to just try to do a letter that relates to something her son has a current interest in.  For example, if he's into Fire Engines right now, she'd do letter F and try to make it a fire engine them, just to help him relate and capture interest better.  Makes sense, but I'm not that creative.  My son just liked to color, paint etc on the big letter, and we rarely made it into anything else. 

buffalo_buckeye

omurray:

I did "Letter of the Week" for awhile, when my son was interested.  When he lost interest, I stopped.  I think we got to G.  I did them in alphabetical order, for no particular reason.  I believe the way the lady from "No Time for Flashcards" does it is to just try to do a letter that relates to something her son has a current interest in.  For example, if he's into Fire Engines right now, she'd do letter F and try to make it a fire engine them, just to help him relate and capture interest better.  Makes sense, but I'm not that creative.  My son just liked to color, paint etc on the big letter, and we rarely made it into anything else. 

This was us too. I guess I wasn't consistent. I have read to teach the lower case letters first but can't remember why. DS really likes his bathtub letters and his Thomas computer where it asks him to find the letter. He gets bored when I try to "teach" him the letters. So I just backed off. I haven't really done letters with him for 6 months but I think he knows them all. I love that website though! She has great crafts.

AnnapolisLari

DS knows all of his letters, all of the upper and most of the lower case. I haven't done anything other than read to him and have an alphabet puzzle and bathtub letters.

veloelle

We didn't do anything structured, she learned them through play, us pointing stuff out. She also has one of those kid laptops I found at Goodwill for $3 that teaches letters.

She knows all upper/lower, but she learned all of her upper way faster than lower. She wasn't interested at all in lower. I'd do all upper and master the entire alphabet first before introducing lower.

ak071401

At my sons preschool they are doing this now. They seem to do both the upper case and the lower case in the same week, and they are going in order A, B, C, etc.

He knows a lot of them already because he has been asking what letters are for a while now, so I can't say if this particular method is effective for my ds. However, I know some parents and kinder teachers who said the kids that come out of this preschool program are more than ready for kinder as far as reading readiness is concerned. So I guess it works for the masses

Littlejen22

I think most preschools do lower case first because they are in more words.  That said, my DS recognizes most upper case.

mommyof4boys

It's developmentally approriate to knw upper case first.  When I taught primary grades we were told that tey taught lower case in 1st grade. 

We were concerned taht Matthew didn't know his letters at the end of last school year and while we were at a developmental ped appoitment he said that at age 3 it was the norm to to only know 6 letters.