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Alphabet Coconut Tree<\/h2>\n
\u201cChicka Chicka Boom Boom\u201d by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, is a popular fun picture book that helps children learn and recognize the letters in the alphabet. The book does a great job introducing the reader to lower case letters before they introduce upper case letters. Lower case letters are more frequent than upper case letters, so it makes sense to teach your toddler in this same sequence. There are various activities you can find online\u2014yeah Pinterest<\/a>\u2014to do with your toddler after reading this book. One activity that I found to be easy and simple is the alphabet coconut tree.<\/p>\n For this activity you will need: green construction paper, paper towel roll, glue, scissors, markers and colored dot labels. Before you begin the activity with your toddler, make sure to write all upper case letters all over the paper towel roll and write the lower case letters on to the color dot labels. Once you\u2019ve done this you can have your child cut out some \u201cleaves\u201d from the green construction paper and glue them on to the top of the \u201ctree.\u201d After the leaves dry, you and your toddler are ready to begin! Before you start rereading the story, instruct your toddler to place the lower case letters next to their counter parts as you reread the story.<\/p>\n If the craft part of this activity may be too much for your child or to much of a hassle, you can have your child draw and color a coconut tree instead. Also, if you think your toddler knows his letters (both upper and lower case letters) then you can try having them write down the letters of the alphabet on to the the paper towel roll and\/or color dot labels. This will give them a chance to practice fine motor skills that go with writing such as a good grip and control of a pencil.<\/p>\n Alphabet Rescue by Audrey & Bruce Wood<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cAlphabet Rescue\u201d by Audrey Wood and Bruce Wood is another great book that helps toddlers learn the ABCs. Not only does the book teach the letters of the alphabet but it also teaches your toddler basic fire safety. There are also various activity you can do with this book as well with your toddler. An interactive game that I found is “Alphabet to the Rescue<\/a>.”<\/p>\n For this activity you will need magnetic alphabet letters and painters tape. Using the painter tape, make a ladder on the floor in front of your refrigerator. Place all the letters you and your toddler are working on on the refrigerator. Once you\u2019ve done this, instruct your toddler to \u201cclimb\u201d the \u201cladder\u201d by crawling over the \u201cladder,\u201d in order to \u201crescue\u201d the letter that you call out. For example, \u201cThe letter \u201ca\u201d needs to be rescue.\u201d You can also call out the sound the letter makes in order to practice letter-sound correspondence. Make sure your toddler also repeats the letter and\/or sound when they \u201crescue\u201d the letter.<\/p>\n This activity not only involves good listening skills, but it also involves following directions as your toddler will have to \u201crescue\u201d the letter that you call out (or sound out). Protip:<\/strong>\u00a0This activity can also be altered to help your toddler spell. Instead of \u201crescuing\u201d all the letters, have them \u201crescue\u201d certain letters in order to spell out a word (i.e. \u201cWe need to save the \u201ccat\u201d, what letters do we need?\u201d).<\/p>\n Another fun way to help your toddler recognize letters is by playing hide-and-seek. Growing Book by Book suggested\u00a0two great ways to play this game<\/a>. You can either have your toddler say their ABCs instead of counting before they go out seeking. The second option is to hide the letters of the alphabet around your house and have your toddler find them. Have your toddler say the letter that they found (or the sound the letter makes) before they locate the others.<\/p>\n If you have\u00a0an older child who has already mastered letter and sound recognition then this last activity may be a fun way to teach them to spell.<\/p>\n Exposure to the alphabet early on is important for young children. Knowing the alphabet and the sounds they make\u2014letter-sound correspondence\u2014is a step closer to learning to read and write. The letters in the alphabet are the building blocks for literacy. Children who have difficulties recognizing letters from the alphabet and\/or the sounds that corresponds with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":10958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1582],"tags":[1041,847,845],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language-building-games","tag-early-language-development","tag-learning-the-abcs","tag-learning-the-alphabet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/4858921901_666fb145ae_o.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Alphabet to the rescue<\/h2>\n
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Hide-And-Seek with ABCs<\/h2>\n
Twister Spell and Read<\/h2>\n
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Frugal Fun 4 Boys suggests some great activities for early readers<\/a> who … just … can’t … sit still. For this activity you will need to own the Twister board game. What you will want to do first is cover the game with single and consonant blends (i.e. \/ch\/). Once you\u2019ve done this you can begin by calling out words that your child has to spell using hands and feet. It’s also a great way to practice your child\u2019s spelling words.<\/p>\n \n \n \n ![\"Parent's](\"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/533600a3-8950-4500-aa3b-fab8818be024.png\")
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