ABSTRACT
Teaching guidelines 60 Activities 61 Playing with letters (Resource sheet 3.2) 61 Activities for school and home 61
Activity 40: Printing letters 61 Activity 41: Growing letters 61 Activity 42: Tactile letters 62 Activity 43: Initial letters 62
Activities for home 62 Activity 44: Cooking letters 62 Activity 45: Playdough letters 63 Activity 46: Magnetic letters 63 Activity 47: Bathtime letters 63
Alphabet arc (Resource sheets 3.12, 3.13) 64 Activities for school and home 64
Activity 48: Alphabet arc 64 Activity 49: Alphabet dominoes 65 Activity 50: Imaginary alphabet 65 Activity 51: Letter swap 66 Activity 52: Pirates (Resource sheet 3.3) 66 Activity 53: Chunking 66 Activity 54: Pick-up game 67
Letter identification 68 Activities for school and home 68
Activity 55: Feely bag 68 Activity 56: Spotty monster (Resource sheet 3.4) 68 Activity 57: Alphabet snake (Resource sheet 3.5) 68 Activity 58: Alphabet pairs 69
Activity 60: Letter name fishing game (Resource sheet 3.7) 69 Activity 61: Join the dots (Resource sheets 3.8 to 3.10) 70
Activities for home 70 Activity 62: Letters all around 70 Activity 63: Counting letters 70 Activity 64: Baking letters 70
Introduction To communicate spoken language in written form a child must learn that the sounds in words (phonemes) are represented by letters or groups of letters (graphemes). Recognition of these letters enables a child to read and spell fluently. Learning the alphabet thoroughly is vital for a child to learn to read and spell. When beginning this process the child does not necessarily need to link the letters in the alphabet to the sounds they make. Instead the alphabet can be learned as a rote learning process.
