How to Teach the Alphabet

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about understanding the nature of reading. Alphabet powers and posters. Children need to see it, hear it and sing it. That's see it, hear it and sing it. You've got to show you care about your ABC's, that you care about the alphabet so it's very very very important that maybe on the refrigerator you have the ABC's and if you notice, this is just a vertical strip and that's important. In a child's room there should always always always be alphabet books. There should, now this particular book shows the letter buh, which is b, and we'll get into phonetic awareness later and then this is the bird riding, bird on bike. There's ABC charts that are horizontal. The reason I'm stressing this, because children later develop visual perception problems. You can help with that so that doesn't happen by displaying the alphabet vertically and horizontally. And you can catch it, prior to it ever happening for your child. Then later you'll have posters that have the capital letter, the small letter, with a name as apple, so it's very important to see the alphabet, for them to see it and hear it, oh that's really important too. A fun game to play at night or in the morning, is, even if you can't sing which I can't, is something simple like a b c d e f g with a smile on your face. Your child starts hearing it and I'm talking about a child that is still even an infant. Learn to sing and to hear and to see the alphabet and the alphabet should be everywhere. So see it, hear it and sing it, that's the power of the alphabet."