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Learn, play, and explore the Letters of the Alphabet. Whether you’re doing Letter of the Week or simply giving more focus to a particular letter during your theme, you’ll find lots of great ideas for hands-on learning with our ABC Twiggles resources! The ABC Twiggles Program is structured to introduce children to the letters of the alphabet by using a multi-sensory approach. We believe that children learn best by doing, being fully engaged, and having fun. To match children's varying interests, abilities, and learning styles, ABC Twiggles has developed a multi-sensory letters of the alphabet program that focuses on alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, book and print concepts, and vocabulary development. Our curriculum incorporates activities that directly stimulate the five senses with exercises in dramatic play, art, movement, music, cooking, and literature exploration. Research driven and aligned to state and national standards, ABC Twiggles is designed to help your children acquire the important skills they need to get them ready for the next step—learning to read.
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These foundation skills make a difference in getting children ready for the next step--learning how to read.
Letter Puppets
Make our letter puppets to associate a name to the sound of the letter. Example: Apple Annie for Letter A. Tell a story about Apple Annie incorporating words starting with the letter A.
Meet the Letter and Letter Chant Printables
Have children form the letter they are learning. Use play dough, bread dough, light aluminum foil (great for the letter A), sticks, pipe cleaners, etc. Draw and cut letter shape out of craft paper and have children decorate it and hang on their wall.
Letter Puzzles
Letter Word Wall, Coloring Page, and Matching Game
During your dinosaur theme, make a letter craft with children. Here is the example for a lowercase letter d dinosaur craft:
Letter Craft
Letter Tongue Twisters
Letter Poster and Coloring Page
Letter Booklet to Color and Print
Letter Sound and Words Online Booklet
Letter Beginning Sound Folder Game
Letter Emergent Reader Booklet to Print
Interactive Online Book for each letter
Trace the Letter
Write the letter
The research from the National Institute for Literacy concluded that the strongest and most consistent predictors of later literacy development are: Alphabet Knowledge, Phonologial Awareness and Memory, Rapid Automatized Naming of Letters and Objects, and Writing Letters.
With this important research in mind and the knowledge of how children learn best, we've created our ABC Twiggles program.
Read alphabet books together. There is a great selection of alphabet books available. Read as many as possible and borrow some from your local library.
Make an alphabet book and alphabet banner together. Use our Alphabet Banner printables available inside our ABC Twiggles member site.
Sing the alphabet song: Children love to sing and what better song to sing than the "Alphabet Song."
Read to your child: The first step in teaching the alphabet is reading stories to your children. Children will get the idea that books contain print, which is made up of letters.
Introduce the name of letter: There are lots of fun ways to introduce your child to each letter. Sign his or her name to his/her artwork, then point out each letter one by one.