15 tips to help children with the letters of the alphabet

The volunteers four hours a week in first grade my son's class. I help in various ways, but most are involved in literacy activities. It 'an exciting moment in the life of literacy nursery and this is the year that readers players emerging in all respects.

While still in elementary school spending increase their vocabulary words and the site, there is a point this year, when most children can pick up a book on their reading level and read it from beginning toFinish with their knowledge and decoding skills. For some children, that point comes at the beginning of the school and others can arrive at different points in the year.

However, there are a handful of children in each classroom of the first class, do not reach the point that this year. These children lack the basic literacy skills and techniques they need to become readers. You do not know their letters not to mention the sounds that each letter represents in words. This lackKnowledge holds them back, both reading and writing.

While other children can write sentences fluently with their growing vocabulary and phonetics, based on their knowledge of the alphabetic principle, children do not yet know the alphabet fall further behind their peers every day.

As a parent of a preschooler, you have to ask yourself. To which group you want the child in the fall? If you want your child behindLiteracy class, then you must make sure your child has learned the alphabet first kindergarten. Here are 15 tips to start teaching your children their letters of the alphabet.

Tip 1 - Introduction of the letter from the search for a word or a name for your baby. Example: B: Ball

Tip 2 - Place the letter in an alphabet chart (you can easily make the "Letters Chunky" color), so your child can see where the letter of the alphabet.The chart can be a learning tool to help your child see what appears to be the alphabet.

Tip 3 - to sing the alphabet song and stops at the letter that sing to the child alone.

Tip 4 - Model the correct formation of the letter and let your child trace the letters in salt, sand, gel, finger paints, pudding or shaving cream.

Tip 5 - Model the correct formation of the letter and let your child print the letter with a brush, ink, colored pencils, crayons, Q-Tip, pencil, magic slate,or pencil.

Tip 6 - Purchase magnetic letters on the refrigerator or place baking sheet to see the letter of the week.

Tip 7 - Place the letters on signs and in books.

Tip 8 - Use modeling clay and roll out to the letter or a toothpick to write the letter on the clay.

Tip 9 - Talk about the shape of the letters and when the uppercase and lowercase letters are the same or different. Matching games, same or different, or alphabet bingo.

Tip 10 - TakeThe finger and trace the letters on the palm or back of the child.

Tip 11 - notes start and label objects in the house with the letter.

Tip 12 - alphabet stamps are an investment for the real fun with the alphabet for alphabet recognition, so that the words and spelling.

Tip 13 - Eating the alphabet can be a delicious way, the letters using vegetables, pretzels, potato sticks and sweets that increase letters.

Tip 14 -Print decorate cupcakes, cakes or biscuits with tubes of icing, letters. Squeeze mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise or jelly letters out of containers to improve your food. If the place is not hungry in a Ziploc bag and practice printing letters outside of the bag.

Tip 15 - Try alphabit breakfast cereal and the names of the letters.