Letterpalooza
Written By Lynne Bertrand
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Sure, we know that learning about letters is the first step toward reading and writing, but to a kid, the alphabet is fascinating unto itself. We've got 26 unexpected ways to explore the wild world of letters.
What and how you teach your child about the ABCs before school starts depends on your interests and hers. "Some children become interested in the names and the sounds of the letters when they are very young," says Claudia Quigg, executive director and founder of BabyTALK, a national organization that trains and supports parents, teachers, and health workers in early childhood development. "Others aren't interested at all, even though they have an otherwise very rich language experience in their lives." Is this okay? Yes. "You cannot tell, when a child is ten, whether she learned to read at four or seven," says Quigg. "What does matter is giving your child plenty of chances to notice the alphabet in the world all around them."This got us dreaming up unusual ways to explore the letters. Most of these 26 ideas are meant to be engaging for your child; a few, as you'll see, are for you.
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