- Between the Lions alphabet chart
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MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversation, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Talk Together: More About the Alphabet
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Educator Prep: Print out the Between the Lions alphabet chart or create an alphabet chart on chart paper.
Use the alphabet chart to continue your discussion about the alphabet. If children brought in their bracelets with circled letters from home, encourage them bring their bracelets to the chart and help them find the circled letters on the chart.
Review the alphabet and explain that the letters in the alphabet are in the same order, or in the same place, each time you say the whole alphabet.
- Point to the alphabet chart and say, This is the order of the letters in the alphabet. "A" is always the first letter of the alphabet, "B" is always after "A," and so on.
- Read the whole alphabet aloud and pause after each letter so children can repeat the order after you.