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Dig into early literacy skills for your toddler or preschoolers with 20+ cool hands-on activities to start learning letters together!
We’re on a quest to start reading, so we’re continuing with reviewing and learning letters right now through games and play.
They have to know their ABCs before full-on reading, right?
But alphabet worksheets can get, well, a little stale and boring.
So I found a whole bunch of awesome activities and creative ideas to work on learning letters!
20+ Letter Learning Activities to Start Toddlers with the ABCs
How Do You Begin to Teach Reading & Literacy?
The very first step to help a toddler learn literacy is to recognize letters. But, I can even break learning letters down into three categories and you’ll see these in our beginner activities.
- Simply introduce letters to the child. Maybe telling them what one is here and there. But that’s it. Just having the letters available is the first step.
- Match letters. Maybe they don’t know what the letter is yet, but they can see that they’re different and match up one letter to the same one in another place.
- Recognize the letters. I think this is the advanced step for recognizing letters and it comes in stages. I’ve noticed that my kids usually find a few letters that they recognize right off the bat, but the others come along later, sometimes much later.
Introducing & Matching Letters with Toddlers
For the beginning stages of learning letters, start be focusing entirely on categories 1 and 2 above in activities when first beginning.
Category 3 will come in time and we’ll get to that later when your child becomes more confident.
How can I help my child learn letters?
When George was a toddler, we were making sure letters were available to him and we used them in many of our activities, whether we’re really learning them or not.
The letters are there.
He often asked what the letters are. This is the time to share with him and teach him.
Otherwise, don’t try to push the alphabet. It’s just time to show that there are letters and that each letter is different.
We did this in several of our learning activities.
Now, it comes to the fun part…
How do you make learning letters FUN?
I’ve collected some of the alphabet activities we’ve done along with a few others to help beginners learn the ABCs.
The very beginning of teaching literacy. Focusing on introducing letters and matching up letters.
20+ Activities for Toddlers to Begin Learning the Letters of the Alphabet
ABCs, here we come!
What are your favorite early letter learning activities? We’d love to check out your cool ideas!
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