Strategy: Using names to learn letters of the alphabet



|Strategy: Linking Names and Alphabet |

|Appropriate Grade Level: Preschool – 1st |

|Procedures/Steps: |

|This strategy is about learning names with a purpose, which helps children connect alphabet letters to objects and other students |

|in their classroom. |

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|1. Create a list of names of objects and/ or students with a variety of the letters of the alphabet that can be spread throughout a|

|classroom. |

|2. Fill the classroom with labels and names to help the students to enhance their letter recognition. |

|Example: Label student’s desk and cubbies with their names so that the student pays attention to their names along with other |

|students. This way they can connect people with the names written on their personal space. |

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|3. Another good example of connecting names, letter recognition and sounds together are by doing action games with the students. |

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|Example: Have the each student think of an action that begins with the same letter as their name, and an object that they would use|

|to complete this action such as: My name is Bailey and I like to bounce balls. This way the students are linking the Bailey’s name |

|to ball and bounce. |

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|Comments and/or tips: |

|Don’t limit to labeling personal items, but also label items such as tape, stapler, and computers and so on. |

|Other activities are writing names in 3D images such as colored sugar and yarn |

|Have the class make up cheers linking names and letters together |

|Source: |

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|Clark, P. & Kirk, E. (2005). Beginning with Names: Using Children's |

|Names to Facilitate Early Literacy Learning. Childhood Education, 81(3) 139-144. |

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