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Psychological needs and building foundational literacy proficiencies to promote love and purpose in learning and making it meaningful. 

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Psychological needs and building foundational literacy proficiencies to promote love and purpose in learning and making it meaningful. 

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Letter knowledge is key to success in reading and writing. 

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Letter knowledge is key to success in reading and writing. 

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One can support letter knowledge by carefully observing and making note of students’ abilities and skills, and teaching letters in isolation, when necessary. 

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One can support letter knowledge by carefully observing and making note of students’ abilities and skills, and teaching letters in isolation, when necessary. 

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To help, Mr. Maldonado created alphabet book for every kid to help with their letter knowledge.

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To help, Mr. Maldonado created alphabet book for every kid to help with their letter knowledge.

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Building on student’s preferences and knowledge in instruction.  

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Building on student’s preferences and knowledge in instruction.  

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Click the picture below to explore more letter knowledge activities. 

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What Is Letter Knowledge?

Letter knowledge is recognizing the letters and knowing the letter names and sounds. Young children gain an awareness of letters as they play with alphabet shapes, start to notice letters in books, and realize that their name begins with a specific letter.

A child who has achieved letter knowledge recognizes all the letters of the alphabet, in both capital letter and lowercase form, and she knows the names and sounds of each.

Letter knowledge-one of the first stepping stones on the path to reading-develops as a child is exposed to letters through play and through planned activities.

Quick Check for Letter Knowledge

Here are five signs that indicate that your child has letter knowledge.

Your child can recite the alphabet song.

Your child recognizes the capital letters. If you ask him to point to an M, he can do it.

Your child recognizes lowercase letters. If you ask your student to point to an r, he can do it.

Your child knows the most common sounds of the letters. For example, he knows that the letter B says /b/ and K says /k/.

Your child notices letters in her environment, such as on book covers and store signs.

10 Fun Ways to Develop Letter Knowledge

The best way to develop letter knowledge is through a variety of fun, hands-on alphabet experiences. Here are ten activities to enjoy with your child.

Sing the Alphabet Song

Sing the alphabet song to your kids when they are very young. When they get a bit older, they will naturally start singing along.

Cut and Paste the Alphabet

Children should learn and master uppercase letters first and then lowercase letters. Our ABC Crafts for Uppercase and Lowercase Letters are the perfect way to learn them!

Match Different Fonts and Styles

Children need to know that letters in text can look different in different fonts, and that printed letters look different from handwritten letters. The activities in this blog post will help!

Associate Letter Names with the Sounds They Make

Help your child associate letter names with the sounds the letters make. For example, point out the word pizza on the pizza box and say, "We're having pizza tonight. Pizza starts with P. P says /p/ as in pizza."

Letter Knowledge Is One of the Big Five Skills

Letter knowledge is one of the five critical skills for reading readiness that we call the Big Five Skills. The other four skills are:

If you're ready to tackle the rest of the Big Five Skills, be sure to check out the All About Reading Pre-reading program. Your student will enjoy special games, crafts, and story time read-alouds, and you will love the way your student effortlessly learns essential pre-reading skills.

Do you have any questions about letter knowledge? Post in the comments below!

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Top 10 Activities for Letter Knowledge + FREE Downloads!

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Letter knowledge is recognizing the letters and knowing the letter names and sounds. Young children gain an awareness of letters as they play with alphabet shapes, start to notice letters in books, and realize that their name begins with a specific letter.

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Getting students motivated and eager to read is key to them not falling behind. 

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Getting students motivated and eager to read is key to them not falling behind. 

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Leveled Books: helping to prevent reading failure

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Leveled Books: helping to prevent reading failure

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Having a set a appropriate leveled books as reading materials for students and beginner readers.

Find leveled books here!

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Ensure success in your classroom and beyond with engaging, developmentally appropriate books at various levels of text complexity. Graduated levels of difficulty build students' confidence while increasing comprehension and fluency. Reading A-Z books support instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, close reading of text, and more.

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Ensure success in your classroom and beyond with engaging, developmentally appropriate books at various levels of text complexity. Graduated levels of difficulty build students' confidence while increasing comprehension and fluency. Reading A-Z books support instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, close reading of text, and more.

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Leveled Phonics: helping to prevent reading failure

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Leveled Phonics: helping to prevent reading failure

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Morris writes that leveled phonics can be described as adopting, "...a sound developmental phonics approach that supplements large amounts of meaningful contextual reading"

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More Teacher Training to help to prevent reading failure in students. 

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More Teacher Training to help to prevent reading failure in students. 

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With more knowledge of resources and effective instruction and activities, teachers can tremendously influence students' views towards reading.

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Talking can help lead to academic success.

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Talking about experiences, everyday things, stories, etc. 

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Talking about experiences, everyday things, stories, etc. 

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Modeling “talk”-	how one uses language: asking questions, showing manners, settling arguments, telling stories, etc. 

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Modeling “talk”-	how one uses language: asking questions, showing manners, settling arguments, telling stories, etc. 

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Giving students the opportunity to take ownership of their learning and reading.

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Valuing the language students bring to school and creating that meaningful conversation. 

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Valuing the language students bring to school and creating that meaningful conversation. 