Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Art supplies
- <br>Paper
- <br>Small toys representing each letter
- <br>Creativity
Step1
Evaluate the child's interests. A child is more likely to learn the alphabet if you teach the alphabet in a way that appeals to the child's interests.
Step2
Focus on one letter at a time. Spend an entire lesson teaching a child the look and sound of just one letter. You can review the letters that a child has already learned, but only introduce one new letter at a time.
Step3
Show the child what the letter looks like. Write the letter and encourage the child to write the letter as well.
Step4
Teach the child what the letter sounds like. Sing a song that uses the letter sound, such as "Baa Baa Black Sheep" for the letter "B." Provide small toys that begin with the letter, such as toy bears and balls for "B," and ask the child to identify each object. Point out that they all start with the same sound.
Step5
Enable the child to "touch" the letter. Let the child touch the toys. Do an activity that involves touching the letter, such as gluing pictures of dinosaurs onto a "D" or painting a "P" with purple paint.
Step6
Let the child "smell" and "taste" the letter. Let the child smell and taste things that begin with the letter, such as smelling pepper for "P" or eating a banana for "B."
Step7
Look at pictures of interest to the child. For example, if a child likes dinosaurs, you can end each lesson by identifying all of the dinosaurs that begin with the letter the child just learned, such as stegosaurus after learning the letter "S."