English · Preschool
Explore Letters in Meaningful Contexts
Children explore letters through names and signs: they tell letters apart from numbers, find a named capital letter among look-alike letters (starting with the first letter of a name), and copy short names with letter tiles, learning that names and words are letters in a set order.
- 3 lessons
- About 35 minutes
- Letters check: 4 questions
- Ways to answer: choose an answer, sort into groups and arrange tiles
What learners will discover
- Tell letters apart from numbers.
- Find a named capital letter, such as the first letter of a name, among letters that look alike (M, N, W).
- Know that names are made of letters in a set order, and copy a short name with letter tiles.
Lessons
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Letters and numbers 4 steps2 practiceabout 12 min
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Find the letter 4 steps2 practiceabout 12 min
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Letters make names 5 steps2 practiceabout 11 min
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Letters check 4 questions at the end
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