Writing the Alphabet
Help your children learn their ABC's by tracing letters with Big Bird.
Print out the page and help children trace each letter. Then sing the alphabet together, pointing at each letter as you sing it out loud! (Don’t worry if kids don’t trace the letters exactly—there’s still lots of learning going on. You can help by guiding their hands to steady the pencil as they trace.)
You might help older children think of a word for each letter. After tracing the whole alphabet, give them a blank piece of paper and invite them to try some letters on their own!
Abby’s Letter Garden
Prepare children for school success by exposing them to uppercase letters, helping them recognize them, and write them themselves.
I Know My Letters
A printable alphabet coloring page.
Terry Crews Is an Artist
Terry Crews, Count, and Abby talk about the word “artist.”
Alphabet Art
Alphabet art is a fun, hands-on way to help kids recognize the shapes of letters. It can also provide an opportunity to layer in learning across subjects. Watch this video and think of ways you might incorporate letter crafts into your work with kids and families.
Building and Rebuilding Language Skills—and Community!
An article about building children’s language skills by enriching your interactions.
Creating Alphabet-Rich Environments
Alphabet recognition involves learning the names, shapes, and sounds of the letters in the alphabet, and it helps get kids ready for phonics learning. There are so many ways to introduce the alphabet to young children. Adding a little alphabet magic to your environment can be a great place to start.
Building a Reader
An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5.
