Letter of the Week with a 3-year-old

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1. Meeghan

   June 11, 2015 at 4:08 pm

   Love all the ideas you are sharing! Also when teaching the alphabet, make sure you are teaching both the upper and lower case letters. We also believe you should explicitly teach the confusing fonts (like the two lower case letter a, or g, or upper case I – looking like a lower case L).

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2. Egzaminy Cambridge

   December 20, 2015 at 11:20 am

   With those activities and printables I’m definitely sure that learning alphabet is very joyful and effective.

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3. Allison

   April 7, 2016 at 3:46 pm

   This is truly a blessing! Thank you for compiling all this information in one location.

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   • Anna Geiger

     April 11, 2016 at 5:33 pm

     You’re very welcome, Allison! Thanks for reading!

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4. Ummara

   January 3, 2017 at 1:19 pm

   Im little confuse regarding alphabets n phonics. I mean my she is 3.5 yrs old n she knows all the alphabets now i teach her phonics from a to j but i show her upper case A as A alphabet n then i show her lower case a as phonic n i say A makes a sound of ah (a). Am i doing right? I feel that im doing wrong because this way she is learning that uppercase r alphabets n lowercase r phonics. Is it right?

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   • Anna Geiger

     January 3, 2017 at 1:29 pm

     I don’t think this is a problem if she doesn’t have trouble remembering both upper and lowercase. You might want to play games where she matches the upper and lowercase forms. Personally I associate the sound with both the upper and lowercase letters, and I focus on letter names before sounds. However, some educators start with just the lowercase and teach them as sounds instead of using the letter names. I think with continued exposure your daughter will put the pieces together.

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5. syeda

   December 30, 2017 at 6:45 am

   Awesome ……Thank You so much.

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   • Anna G

     January 1, 2018 at 7:18 am

     You’re very welcome, Syeda!

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6. Jennifer Washko

   January 23, 2018 at 10:23 am

   I can’t seem to find the printable for the Cut and Paste Letter Sounds for J. I have every letter but that one.

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   • Anna G

     January 23, 2018 at 12:44 pm

     Here’s the link! https://thisreadingmama.com/learning-the-alphabet-letter-j-pack/

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7. Anne Winter

   February 12, 2018 at 5:44 pm

   This is a wonderful idea. I run a playgroup and do an activity every week with the little ones. You’ve just covered 26 weeks!!

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   • Anna G

     February 17, 2018 at 7:51 pm

     Yay! I’ms o glad you’ve found useful ideas here, Anne!

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8. Sandy

   July 11, 2018 at 9:12 pm

   What order do you teach the letters in? Like the curved, c, o, e type compared to the straight, k, b,f, t, l type then ones with humps h, m, u, n types, and finally tail types p, g, y, q. Hopefully that makes sense.
   Thanks

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   • Anna G

     July 14, 2018 at 7:17 pm

     Hi Sandy! That’s a big question, and I have different answers depending on the age/ability of the learner. I recommend signing up for my free email series, which answers that question and many more about teaching the alphabet. You can sign up here: https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/305342?v=7 (it’s completely free; you’ll get 5 emails in 5 days)

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9. Salma

   August 22, 2018 at 12:30 pm

   Hi Anna, can you share fraction games printables

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   • Anna G

     September 1, 2018 at 6:46 am

     I currently have two posts about fractions: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-equal-sharing-task-cards/
     https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-teach-fractions/

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10. Chelsey

    September 6, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    Is there a place where all the free Alphabet printables are in one pdf so they can all be printed at once?

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    • Anna G

      September 6, 2018 at 2:44 pm

      No – when I put things together into a bundle I charge for them.

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11. Maryann

    September 10, 2018 at 5:49 am

    The pictures shown look amazing! Are all the ideas that I see above in your letter of the week book?

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    • Anna G

      September 10, 2018 at 7:18 am

      HI Maryann! Some of them are, and some of them aren’t. I actually completely redid the letter of the week ebook after I did this free series, and I would say it contains a greater variety of printables than what you see above.

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12. Mel Bass

    July 15, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    I am looking for a 3 year old curriculum but want to make sure I only get short vowel sounds first. Does you curriculum contain both short and long vowel pages or just one or the other? I get frustrated when I purchase something and I get some short and some long vowels. I would like to have both since I can choose when to teach each. This is a real problem when you purchase letter borders and they are not consistent.

    Thanks

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    • Anna G

      July 20, 2019 at 8:28 am

      Hi Mel! The focus of the curriculum is more on letter identification, but any time I teach letter sounds within the curriculum I focus on the short vowel sounds.

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