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Alphabet Lesson Plans

  1. A is for Apple: Building Letter-Recognition Fluency- Learning to recognize letters is an integral part of most kindergarten programs. The challenge is to keep students’ interest while practicing until they are fluent. This lesson meets that challenge using a variety of activities.
  2. ABC books- I have each of my students pick a letter, brainstorm new ideas, and create their own page. This is bound together for a class book.
  3. ABC Freeze Tag- A fun game!
  4. ABC Game- "The object of this game is to score the most points. First, cut out the titles (categories) that you found on the page, including the "!!Bonus Points!!" paper."
  5. ABCs of Safety- Safety behind each letter.
  6. Alphabet Art- Students will examine and practice forming letters of the alphabet using a variety of mediums.

Letter Skills Workbook

This workbook contains 30 worksheets focusing on letter and sound skills. The majority of the worksheets focus on the sounds of first letters in words.

Alphabet Skills Workbook

This collection includes 78 sheets focusing on basic alphabet recognition skills for block letters.
  1. Alphabet Battle- Students will get exposure to the placement of the letters of the alphabet in relation to all the other letters of the alphabet.
  2. Alphabet Books- A great idea!
  3. Alphabet Letters- Students will be able to recognize, identify and write the letters of the alphabet, with mastery of the letter C in this lesson.
  4. Alphabet Line-up- The students will be able to put the letters of the alphabet in the correct order.
  5. Alphabet Review Activities- A through review of each letter using multiple methods.
  6. Alphabet Soup- In this lesson, students will research different languages, focusing on their unique alphabets. Groups will create posters highlighting each different language's alphabet in order to compare how these systems of symbols are created and utilized.
  7. Alphabet Words- Students will identify words that begin with certain letters of the alphabet.
  8. Alphabetical Autobiography- Students will be able to write vivid descriptions of events/places/people of importance. Students will be able to edit their own/others' work.
  9. Alphabiography Project: Totally You- After the entry for each letter in their alphabiographies, students sum up the stories and vignettes by recording the life lessons they learned from the events.
  10. Amazon Alphabet- The great diversity of life in the tropical rain forest of the Amazon Basin is shown in this activity by having students create an alphabetic Amazon animal mural.
  11. Animal Alphabet: Kindergarten Zoo- Create a "Kindergarten Zoo" to display in the hall, or turn into a class alphabet book!
  12. A–Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre- This lesson exposes second-grade students to a variety of alphabet books to increase their knowledge and understanding of the genre.
  13. Blank Board Fill-In- On the blackboard, create a of or more sets of the basic alphabetic keys in the shape of the keyboards, without the letters on them. Put the "keyboards" side by side.
  14. Color Code Writing- The purpose is to lower the frustration point for those students having a difficult time in forming letters or numbers.
  15. Fun with Quotations- "Students will be able to punctuate and capitalize quotations correctly."
  16. Learn Letters- Learn to make the letters of the alphabet.
  17. Our Community: Creating ABC Books as Assessment- This lesson plan focuses on the theme of community, but the idea can be adapted for any unit of study.
  18. Surfing for ABCs- A project to help students learn their ABC's while surfing the Internet.
  19. The Alphabet Game- Children are encouraged to see words/learning as something fun and challenging; the good spellers are an important part of the team rather than being looked down on as "bookworms".
  20. The Letters of the Alphabet- In this lesson students are asked to gather information about the alphabet and use of individual letters by counting the frequency of each letter in a randomly chosen passage.
  21. The Vowel Slide- "Students will learn that every word must have a vowel. Students will also learn how to blend three letters into a word."
  22. Walking Through the Alphabet- "This is a great way to combine movement while reinforcing letter recognition."
  23. What’s in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word- We can use something as familiar and nonthreatening as their names and the names of their classmates as a starting place for reading and writing. Here's how.
  24. Who Lives in the Sea? A class book- I assigned a letter of the alphabet to each student (some had to have two). I had known that I was going to study oceans and I am a big book collector.
  25. Writing ABC Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension- After reading a piece of literature in this lesson plan, students explore their text, searching for literary elements such as characters, setting, figures of speech, and themes, using the alphabet to organize their findings and publishing their work in ABC books, using the Alphabet Organizer Student Interactive.

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