Alphabet Practice: Activities for Learning Letters

These alphabet practice activities are a wonderful way to get your student or child learning their letters, practicing their fine motor skills and having fun while learning.

Whether you’re a preschool teacher, an early elementary teacher who has a student who needs more practice or a parent homeschooling your child or reinforcing what your kiddo has learned at school, you’ll find these activities fun and engaging.

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Adorable Alphabet Books

When you’re done playing, enjoy these ABC Alphabet Books that are perfect for your little ones!

Eating the Alphabet Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Dr. Seuss’s ABC A is for Apple (Smart Kids Trace-and-Flip)

ABC Dinosaurs A Is for Awful: A Grumpy Cat ABC Book Wipe Clean: Letters (Wipe Clean Learning Books)DC Super Heroes ABC 123

It’s the perfect way to keep the learning going during your storytime!

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Learning Letters

Identification of Letters

On average, between the ages of two and three, children begin identifying letters of the alphabet.

There are many ABC books that can be used to show a child what a letter looks like and what object it relates to. For example, “A is for Apple.”

Alphabet Sensory Bottles are also a terrific way to work on letter recognition.

It is recommended by many studies that children learn the lower case alphabets first, but many children have an easier time identifying capital letters. Also relate the letters to those that relate to your child’s name.

Gamenote Classroom Magnetic Alphabet Letters Kit School Zone Alphabet Flash Cards Melissa & Doug Self-Correcting Alphabet Wooden Puzzles Wooden Alphabet Train Toy

This process will begin the early stages of understanding that letters make up words.

Phonics

Once your child has begun the understanding of letters, you can introduce phonics. Studies have proven that phonics are the key to developing young readers into high level readers.

There are flashcards, games and books that you can use to teach your child phonics. My kids loved The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park by LeapFrog as toddlers.

Basically, you show the child the letter and make the sound of that corresponding letter. When beginning phonics, stick to the long sounds of the letters.

LeapFrog Mr. Pencil’s ABC Backpack LeapFrog: The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park Alphabet Rock n Learn Gamenote Double Sided Magnetic Letter Board

As your child progresses, you can add the short sounds, and eventually letter combination sounds. This will develop the skills your child will need in reading, by encouraging the sounding out of words.

Fine Motor Practice

And learning to actually write the letters is important also! Handwriting is just a more focused type of fine motor skills, which is why many preschool activities are geared toward helping kids work on their fine motor skills and grasp control.

For more ideas, review this Alphabet Unit Study.