TRT Podcast #107: What order should we teach the letters of the alphabet?
Should we teach upper or lowercase first? Which letters should come first in the sequence? And what does the research say, anyway? Get the answers in today’s episode!
Full episode transcript
Mentioned in this episode
- Dr. Stephanie Stollar’s Reading Science Academy (highly recommended!)
- Last week’s episode: Should we teach letter names or sounds first?
- Blog post: What’s the best order to teach letters?
- Jamie White: Should children write their names with capital letters?
- Laura Sowdon: Why OT’s tell you to learn capital letters first
Sequences mentioned in the episode
Preschool sequences: Uppercase: T, L, I, F, H, E, J, D, P, B, O, C, G, U, S, R, Q, A, M, N, Z, V, W, K, Y, X Lowercase: t, l, i, j, u, r, n, m, h, b, p, o, c, d, a, g, q, s, f, e, z, v, w, k, y, x
Kindergarten sequence s, j, a, t, p, m, d, c, h, r, n, i, b, f, g, k, ck, o, e, l, v, w, sh, th, u, ch, wh, x, y, qu z
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