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The first step in teaching any child to read is to teach them letters, and there is no doubt that reading is a vital skill to any child. Most experts agree that a child begins to learn to recognize letters between the age of two and three, but what can parents do to help their children learn all of the letters and begin on their path to reading fun?

This simple step by step guide on how to teach letters will offer tips and tricks to help any child learn their letters from a to z with a whole lot of fun in-between.

Fun is a practically important part of teaching younger children as their attention spans are short. If you make your tutorial lessons on letters into fun and games your toddler will never know the difference but will know their letters by time you are finished. For your efforts to be effective, it is best to try to identify how your child learns and use this to your advantage. Pay attention to the things your child enjoys doing or how they have learned things they already know and use these things to teach letters. This guide will be broke up into steps by various methods that can be used for different types of learners. Each step will begin with some cues and hints that may indicate these methods will work best for you. Keep in mind that you can try any and all of the methods if you wish as no learning game is a bad game.

The first step to teaching letters using this guide at least is to know your child's learning method. This information can be helpful in all areas of care for your child. Most experts break the learning types into three groups, auditory, visual, and physical learners.

An auditory learner sometimes called a listening learner learns best by hearing information through for example song or instruction. A visual learner learns through watching and observing. Finally, a physical learner learns by doing, they need to experience to learn.

Here is a good example that is often used to better explain the different types:

You tell your child not to touch the stove as it is hot and will burn them.

The auditory learner will believe what she/he has heard and leave the stove alone.

A visual learner would need to see someone else be burned, for example if you burned your hand in front of them they would then leave the stove alone.

Physical learners sadly will need to burn themselves on the stove before learning, but will not repeat the action.

You can usually tell a child's learning type by observing there likes and dislikes. For example, a child that loves music or sings often is probably an auditory learner. A child that draws all the time or points to things rather than using words may be a visual learner. The child who has to touch, taste, or experience everything in some physical way is probably a physical learner. Trust your instinct as a parent.

Remember that for auditory learners it is all about hearing the letters and verbal communication. The best way to teach an auditory learner is to talk, talk and the talk some more about letters. Describe their shapes, talk about their sounds, talk about things that start with the letter you are focusing on for the day.

Here are some ideas for teaching a child who is an auditory learner letters:

-Sing the alphabet song often and make up songs involving the other letters.

-Play the ABC game: This is where you and your child try to find one thing that starts with each letter of the alphabet. In younger children, you may have to name the item and ask if it starts with the letter you are finding. You can also play this game by simply having the child think of something that starts with the letter.

-Read to your child as much as possible. Books about letters are particularly useful.

-Have a letter of the day and have your child tell you when ever a word or item has that letter.

-Make rhymes or jingles involving the letter of the day. Try to have these jingles or rhymes associate the sound of the letter with the appearance. For instance the letter S that looks like a slithering snake.

Visual learners need to see the letters. They learn best when given plenty of visual aids. Alphabet flash cards are a great choice. Some of the ideas listed in the auditory section may also work for visual learners, especially the games that require finding actual objects.

Here are some ideas for teaching a child who is a visual learner letters:

-Make your own letter flash cards. Visual learners are generally interested in drawing and art.

-Have your child paint or color a picture of something that starts with a letter. Then show them how to draw the letter next to their picture. Let the child decorate a room with their alphabet art when finished.

-Each day pick a different letter and place cut-outs of that letter on items that the letter starts with. Have you child name the items and collect all the cutouts for a prize.

-Make a photo collage with your child for each letter. You can take the pictures together or cut them out of magazines.

-Purchase alphabet coloring books for your child to color.

-Give your child the newspaper and have them go on a letter hunt circling all of the letter of the day they see with crayon.

Physical learners need active learning. Many of the tips from the other learning types will work for a physical leaner with a bit of tweaking to make things more interactive. For instance with flash cards, consider laying them out on the floor and playing letter hopscotch or twister. For the alphabet song, you could have them try to make their body shaped like the letters as you sing them.

Here are some more ideas for teaching a physical learner letters:

-Make sugar cookies in the shape of letters and decorate them.

-Use play-doe to make things that start with your letter of the day, or the letters themselves.

-Purchase bath-time foam letters for tub play and magnetic letters for the fridge. Work with your child spelling words using the letter of the day, or simple words like their name.

-Place items that all start with your letter of the day in a bag, pull them out together one by one and sound them out together. Place the items back in the bag and have your child feel in the bag and identify the items by feeling without looking.

-Cook a meal that starts with the letter of the day and have your child help. Read the recipe together.

Many of the ideas for physical learners will work with the other two types as well because they incorporate sounds and visual aids. 

.nia.arya.tsabitah. 09 Jan 2014

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