The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter G Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter H Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter J Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Letter M Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter E Song teaches the short E and long E sounds, uppercase and lowercase letter e, vocabulary words with e, and letter E handwriting practice.
The Letter D Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter I Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter F Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
Crack the egg with the letter E! This animated letter E song helps preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade kids recognize E and e with the Funzies and a catchy chorus.
The Letter K Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter C Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
Every letter, every sound
In first grade, alphabet knowledge needs to be lightning fast. Kids name every uppercase and lowercase letter and say its sound without stopping to think. They write lowercase letters neatly, starting at the top, and tell tricky look-alikes apart, like b, d, p, q. They know which letters are vowels and which are consonants, and they put words in ABC order by the first letter. All that speed frees their brains to focus on reading words. The click moment comes when a child stops pausing at letters and just reads.
Fast letter knowledge makes reading easier. These moves build speed and accuracy.
Play a letter song collection during transitions and have kids say the sound each time a letter appears. Quick, playful repetition builds automatic letter-sound knowledge.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withAlphabet Songs (Animated Video Collection)VideosOpen it →Hand out uppercase and lowercase letter pieces and have kids find their match as fast as they can. Time them and let them beat their score. Speed matters in first grade.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withAlphabet Uppercase Letter Matching ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Flash b, d, p and q cards mixed with other letters. Kids name each one and its sound. Keep notes on who mixes them up so you can give extra practice to just those kids.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withAlphabet Uppercase and Lowercase Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Alphabet games first graders love.
VideosSing the Letter A song, then list every A word the class can think of.
Open Letter A Song (Original Music Video) →
VideosPlay a letter song with the screen hidden. Kids guess the letter from the sound.
Open Letter M Song (Original Music Video) →
Flash CardsKids put colorful letter cards in ABC order as fast as they can with a partner.
Open Color Alphabet Flash Cards →Teacher favorites right now: Letter A Song (Original Music Video), Alphabet Song (Original Music Video) and Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video).
First graders should name all uppercase and lowercase letters quickly, know each letter's sound, write lowercase letters correctly, and put words in ABC order by first letter.
Letter sounds should be automatic, with no pause. Quick letter knowledge frees kids to focus on blending sounds and understanding what they read.
Teach a trick like making a "bed" with your fists (b on the left, d on the right). Practice in short bursts, and use lots of reading and writing. Most kids outgrow it by 2nd grade.
Yes, especially for speed and lowercase writing. Even kids who know their letters benefit from quick daily practice to become faster readers.
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