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Alphasongs: Lyrics and Activities
AlphaSongs song lyrics--for teaching the alphabet--feature suggested activities to enhance your students' learning experience in conjunction with an optional CD.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Letter Candy
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will distinguish vowel letters from consonant letters. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Environmental Alphabet
While learning the letters of the alphabet, learners read Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson, look for and take pictures of letters in their own environments, and finally work together to write their own alphabet book.
PBS
Pbs: Sky Riding
This learning game directly instructs the letters of the alphabet. Students will hear the name of a capital letter, fly along with the letter on a hot air balloon, and then find its matching lower case version of the letter.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Alphabet Organizer
An online resource for a variety of tools and topics concerning student knowledge and learning of the English alphabet. Includes lesson plan links, online tools, interactive games, and more.
English Club
English Club: Alphabet
This EnglishClub resource provides basic information about letters of the alphabet, alphabetical order, upper case letters, lower case letters, and font styles.
TES Global
Blendspace: Alphabet
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing the alphabet. Links include videos, songs, and visuals that will support multiple learning styles of students who are learning the alphabet.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Bingo
This is an interactive activity for children learning the alphabet. To play, children must listen for the animated character to say a letter and then click on the corresponding letter in the grid.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Alphabet Slider Puzzle
Alphabet Slider Puzzle is an activity for early elementary age children. Students click and drag the puzzle pieces to complete the alphabet pictures. When a picture is complete the letter is pronounced and associated with a word and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 1:1: Always Vowels: A, E, I, O
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Information and examples of words containing the vowels "a", "e", "I", and "o."
Teachnology
Teachnology: Worksheets: Early Childhood: Alphabet
This is a collection of alphabet worksheets for practicing the letters of the alphabet. It offers worksheets for each letter of the alphabet and a list of links to other alphabet worksheets as well.
Other
Design a Study: How to Teach Handwriting
Very specific advice on teaching the skill of handwriting to young children. Making correct letters, making letters the same size, and the slant of the letters are all stressed.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Puppy Hop Letter Recognition
Identify the letter and click on the correct tennis ball.
Other
Alphabet Animals: Animal Dictionary
This site includes animated animals that represent each letter of the alphabet. Sound buttons are included to accompany the animal represented by the corresponding letter.
SEDL
Cognitive Framework: Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities
This professional resource includes a database to find the answer relative to the best instructional practices related to alphabetic literacy. This site offers activities in English and Spanish to help teach literacy topics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Alphabet Shopping
Young children love to help with grown-up tasks so they'll really enjoy making this alphabetical shopping list, in this activity from Arthur.
Starfall
Starfall: How the Alphabet Got Its Order
A cleverly animated story about how the alphabet got its A-to-Z order. Helps beginning readers and English language learners learn to recognize and pronounce all the letters of the alphabet.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Alphabet Fishing (Lesson Plan)
This site has a cute game young students will enjoy playing to review letter recognition. Students "go fishing" for letters. For each letter they "catch" they must tell what the letter is and a sound it makes.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Alphabet Book [Pdf]
A ready to print and easy to use graphic organizer to help students plan alphabet books on any subject.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Vowel Stars
A lesson plan in which students fill in the missing letter with vowels to determine which ones form real words. Materials are included.
Starfall
Starfall: The Lone Vowels
Grammar rules taught through song. A familiar tune helps to teach the E and O at the end of the word that make a long vowel sound. There are opportunities to demonstrate understanding by identifying words that that follow the rule.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Upper and Lower Case Match Up
This technology-based instructional activity has students navigate Internet sites to assist them with learning the letter names and sounds. Students also use slideshow presentations to identify letter matches and learn beginning sounds.
History is Fun
Jan Brett: Coloring Alphabet (Traditional,cursive,modern)
Provides coloring pages for each letter of the alphabet in three styles: traditional, cursive, and modern. Each page features a printed upper and lower case letter of the particular style as well as an illustration of something that...