Names of letters and capitals
In Gilead® Success with Phonics the lowercase letters and their sounds have been taught first to keep things as simple as possible and because they are used the most.
However, both the names of letters and capital letters have been introduced through the program whenever necessary. Now children can learn any remaining letters that they do not know.
Here, in Level 9, all the names of letters are presented together in alphabetical order, similarly for capital letters. Print the cards, Letter Cards and memory and capitals. Pick out the appropriate cards and play any matching games with them. You can also print the lowercase-capital pairs cards.
Names of letters – order of the alphabet
It is important for children to learn the sounds first, before names of letters. It will be easier for them to sound out words as they learn to read if the sounds are what automatically come to mind.
By now they will have learned the names of some letters. Here they can learn any others as they learn the alphabet. Learning the alphabet in order is a necessary skill to be able to use a dictionary. (Video 1)
Note, the pronunciation of “Z” is /zed/ in Australia and Britain, and /zee/ in the US.
Capital letters
I have taught lowercase letters first because they are the most common and useful as children learn to read. The children will have learned some capitals along the way. Here they all are, with accompanying bodily contortions, well some of them anyway. Some have easier actions, others easier alternatives. These were invented by my grandson (featured) who had needed this sort of approach when he was younger. If your child cannot do the actions, or does not want to, it might be fun to try imagining Mum, Grandpa … doing them. (Video 2)
i o a flowed by 2 consonants
When “i” and “o” are followed by two consonants, they can say their names. E.g. find, kind, Christ, but Christmas, and wind can have either an /i/ or an /I/ sound; most, post, comb, but lost.
When “a” is followed by two consonants, it can say /ar/. E.g. fast, last, ask, mask, path, but lamp … In some places in the world the “a” can still have a short /a/ sound. (Video 3)
Click on the bottom right hand corner of each video to see it full screen. If you have trouble seeing the videos try names of letters, capital letters, i o a followed by 2 consonants
Thanks to Mr Spin for permission to film “child”.
To see the other videos go to Videos for Children
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