Teaching Your Child the Alphabet
So many children just started their first day of school. In my home, I had one go to their 2nd year of preschool, another start 2nd grade, another start 7th grade and finally my oldest started his junior year of high school. No matter their age, they all started the same way, by learning the alphabet.
I received Tappy Alphabet app and compensation for this post. All opinions are my own.
Need a few ways help teaching your child the Alphabet? Try these!
Hands On ABCs
Let your child really get familiar with what the letters look like. Using templates like these free ABC printable templates allow your child to write, color, paint or mold the letters. The templetes will be a great bouncing off point for getting comfortable with the alphabet!
Identify
Letters are everywhere! The first letter my daughter learned in preschool was not the letter A, instead it was H, the first letter in her name. During the first week of school we looked for the letter H everywhere we went. We spotted it on signs, boxes, papers…everywhere. She was able to then identify her name on school papers and on her desk at school. Use the world around you to teach your child the ABCs. Focus on one letter, or multiples, like the letters in their first name. Have fun with it.
Music
I am one of those people that can memorize anything, if it’s put to music. Several of my kids have inherited this same way of learning. So, a great way to teach the alphabet, is with music. Of course, the standard Alphabet song, is a must, but it isn’t the only letter song out there. Check out YouTube for a plethora of fun and catchy songs about the Alphabet. Best part, the bright and colorful videos will keep them entertained and singing. Many of these songs not only teach the letters, but the sounds that they make.
Books
Reading to your child is extremely important. Visit your local library for books about the Alphabet. You will be amazed at really how many there are. I’m not kidding, there are tons! Each book helps present the alphabet in really fun or clever ways. Add an alphabet book into your child’s nightly list of bed time stories.
Games
Make learning the alphabet exciting. Do a letter scavenger hunt, find things around that begin the each letter. Another great way to teach the ABCs is by using letter matching. You can find a million ways on Pinterest to make easy and fun letter matching games. Many of these are also good to stick in your purse as a way to keep your kiddo occupied when waiting for the older kids to get out of school, or sitting at the doctor’s office.
Technology
We are so lucky to live in a time that we have so much technology to help our children learn. Using your tablet or phone and downloading apps, your child can have the alphabet always at the tips of their fingers. Let’s face it, they want to use your tablet all the time anyway right? Make it educational and fun at the same time. My kids have been having so much fun playing with the Tappy Alphabet app.
Tappy Alphabet makes the learning as simple as A, B, C. Tappy Alphabet is an extremely easy to use, intuitive interface allows children to learn over 100 vocabulary words. All of the fun happens on one page, no swiping required…perfect for little ones. Tappy Alphabet also includes phonics, letting your child know the sound that each letter makes, before showing them a picture and a word that starts with that letter of the alphabet. Tappy Alphabet has bright beautiful graphics accompanied by a pleasant voice over.
My children were instantly engaged by Tappy Alphabet. I’m not just talking about the preschooler or toddler, my almost 8 year old enjoyed using the app as well. She used it to show my preschooler how to spell her name. My preschooler and toddler love the colors and pictures. I love that my toddler tries to repeat the letters and words, she is trying to get a handle on the whole talking thing, so any practice is really helpful! I also love that Tappy Alphabet includes lower case letters as well, it’s really important that kids learn lower and uppercase at the same time, it helps them understand writing and reading easier.
Tappy Alphabet is available on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon App Store. Tappy Alphabet only costs $0.99, and would be absolutely perfect for any child that just started preschool.
A lifetime of reading begins by learning the alphabet.
This look like a cool app. My son learned his ABCs using books, seeing the letters every day and singing the song. Kids learn quicker when there’s music and fun in the lesson.
We use books, educational shows, and also blocks to help teach the kids there alphabet. This looks like a great app. Going to check it out.
I like that app. We’ve used apps before to help teach letters, numbers, colors, shapes.
These are great ideas, and you can’t beat the price of that app. I also like ABC puzzles. Thanks for sharing!
This app looks great and would definitely come in handy.
I have taught my children the alphabet by book. We sing the alphabet song over and over and go over all of the letters in the book daily. We also play sight games while we are out like “Spot the letter B”.
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Thank you Christine for a great review and thank you all for the wonderful comments and feedback. We hope that kids everywhere will find our little app fun and educational, and we hope to provide enhancements to it in the future as well.
Technology has definitely come a long way. This is a great tool to use for children to learn their ABCs.
I like this app. We haven’t done anything “special” other than reading and singing the alphabet. This is a good idea.
It looks like a great app. It is amazing how helpful technology can be, when you just look in the right places.
We learned our ABCs mostly through the ABC song and playing with foam letters in the bathtub. As much as Bubbles loves apps, though, I’m sure she would enjoy playing with this one to reinforce what she’s learned.
This looks like a great app, my kids love Endless Alphabet as well. My favorite tool is the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, my kids love that one!
Of course the alphabet song is a must but I am so impressed with how much technology has helped, too… it has come such a long way!
Great suggestions! I forget that there are so many wonderful ways to learn today. I love that the children have access to the wonderful apps out there. They really make learning fun!
When my kids were little, we sang the ABC song all the time. I love the tune and this it is a great way to learn the letters of the alphabet.
What great tips! Using something like this makes it easy for kids to learn!
When my nephew was a little boy, he had a terrible time learning the basics. We found that interactive learning with coloring books and things like that worked wonders.
It’s never too early to stat teaching kids basic things like ABCs and colors. Interactive is always best, so these printables are a great idea.
Printables and tablets are a great way to teach young kids their ABCs. There’s nothing better for learning than interactive activities.
My son will love the Tappy Alphabet app. It looks so clever since it’s so colorful and fun.
We have really struggled with this over the past year. The one thing that seems to help is to pick a letter and have my daughter walk around with the card all day. She also enjoys doing alphabet puzzles. I am going to use some of your ideas too.
Looks like a fun app. Definitely easier learning the alphabet with the song.
Really great tips!
I think anything that makes learning fun s always helpful!
We love to learn anything with songs- and you’re right YouTube has some great audio and visual learning aids!
We used to make alphabet cookies and spell out words with them before we ate them.
To help my grandson learn the alphabet we have been using flash cards and puzzles.He gets bored with these though and I know he would love the Tappy Alphabetapp! I really like that this app also includes phonics, and that it also includes lower case letters as well as capital letters. Thanks for sharing!
To help my son learn his ABC’s, we have been checking books out from the library that all start with the same letter.