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Letter Knowledge
is one of the earlyliteracy skills that researchers say isimportant for children to have inorder to learn to read.
Letter Knowledge is knowing thatthe same letter can look different,that letters have names and arerelated to sounds.
Here are some waysyou can develop orstrengthen your child’sknowledge of letters...
Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2009
LetterKnowledge
Shapes:
Learning to tell one letter fromanother involves being able to see the differences in letter shapes.Helping babies and toddlers learnabout different shapes and tounderstand how things are alikeand different will help prepare them to learn the alphabet.
Activity:
Explore some objects with yourbaby or toddler. Let him hold theobjects as you describe them.Examples:
Look at this round, red ball.
Feel this soft, brown teddy bear.
Here is a blue, square block.Let’s stack it on top of theyellow block.
Babies/Toddlers...
Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2009
Shapes:
Read books that feature shapes, and talk to your baby or toddler about the things on the pages. Babies and toddlers also like to look at humanfaces.
Activity:
Explore the books providedand talk about the shapes, colors, andsizes.
Activity: I Spy
Use the objects provided. Choose three objects and place them side byside. Say,
I spy with my little eye something _________.
(Choose a color,shape or size)
Can you find it?
Examples:I spy with my little eye......something red...something round...something tiny
Babies/Toddlers...
Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2009
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