How To Teach The Alphabet to Preschoolers
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While I firmly believe that it is more important for children to learn phonics before letter names, I know many parents are anxious and want to know how teach the alphabet to their preschoolers. Whether you have decided to do homeschool preschool, or you’re working with your preschooler before they start school, there are fun, interactive alphabet activities you can do with your child to help them learn the alphabet!
How To Teach the Alphabet to Preschoolers
ABC Song
One of the very first ways I introduce my preschooler to the alphabet is through the ABC song! It’s a simple song that we all know, and children just love to sing. I like to print out an ABC chart and place it on our morning board. That way, while we sing the song, we can point to the letters. This helps the child learn to recognize the letter by name.
This year I set up a very simple alphabet notebook for my preschooler. I like that I can introduce him to the uppercase and lowercase letters separately. We keep the worksheets to a minimum by only doing two of these sheets per week, and my preschooler only does two small sections of each sheet each day.
Hands-On Activities
I am expanding our alphabet learning with a few things:
First, I am using my Teach the Alphabet book to pull out lots of fun and engaging games to bring the alphabet to life! This eBook includes 20 simple activities to help teach your child the alphabet.
I also use books and preschool lesson plans based on books to teach letters and sounds in a fun and informal way.
We are also using my ABC picture word cards to work on letter recognition, beginning sounds, and sight words. If you’re wondering how you can use ABC picture word cards, I have a post on that!
Working on the alphabet letters and sounds a little at a time is a great way to introduce the entire alphabet to your preschooler. It can also be a lot of fun and a great bonding experience between parent and child. These activities are simple to put together with little prep work!
My little one who is 4 loves numbers and always has. He can count to 10 in English, Korean, and Chinese and is working for Spanish and Japanese. We have just started pushing letters this past month as I know that is what they will want in preschool!
That’s awesome! What a smart little guy you have!
My preschooler LOVES the alphabet!
My 4yo loves counting, sorting, and building symmetrical towers with his blocks
My daughter, Natalie, loves doing anything creative! Drawing, painting, playing with play dough, coloring, etc. She’s happiest when she’s making art.
My preschooler loves playdough, so we try to incorporate that a lot!
My preschooler loves to “read”, that is definitely by far his favorite activity and I love hearing him make up stories.
My son absolutely lovestunning anything he can use dot markers for! He would do like 10 a day if I let him.
My preschooler is currently loving ART! And trying to keep up with what the big kids are up to 🙂
My 3-1/2 year old loves using his hands and exploring outside so we set up a table and build things with blocks, count and name the colors of the blocks, look at the animals we see, etc.
My preschooler loves to cut the papers. lol but the good thing is he collects all the cutouts by himself. He knows A-Z. he can identify them all but having difficulty in writing them. winning such stuff will be so useful and helpful. fingers crossed and thanks for all the tips.