Teacher's tips

Level of education: Elementary School I - Early Childhood Education

Age: 05 to 07 years old

This game allows the student to realize that there is a correspondence between a graphic unit (letter) and a sound unit. In a pleasurable and playful way, the children will appropriate the relationships between the letters and their sounds, favoring the learning of reading and writing. In addition, this activity aims to expand the vocabulary of children. [FIM-DICA]

Learner outcomes

Know the letters of the alphabet and their names;

Enable the student to identify the alphabet as a stable set of symbols that graphically represents our speech;

Knowing the alphabetical order of writing the alphabet;

Associate letter to its sound;

Develop attention, memory, orality and integration.

Expand vocabulary;

Understand the use of the alphabet in the construction of words;

Fix knowledge acquired in the classroom

Teachers' goals

Enable the student to identify the alphabet as a stable set of symbols that graphically represents our speech;

Fix content worked in the classroom;

Offer a playful and pleasurable proposal that allows the student to associate letters with their spelling and sounds.

Promote the development of skills and abilities so that students can expose their own ideas.

Promote the development of group work;

Promote moments of relaxation and socialization of knowledge;

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

(Suggestion 1) Gather the words of the whole class and propose that they separate them according to different criteria: words with the same number of letters, that start with the same letter, that end with the same letter, etc;

(Suggestion 2) Build a memory game with animals or objects that have the same initial;

(Suggestion 3) Make clippings in magazines assembling words;

(Suggestion 4) Cut out the letters of the alphabet from magazines, placing them in order in the notebook or bond sheet.

(Suggestion 5) Build alphabet from bottle caps. Distribute to students and ask them to assemble simple words.

(Suggestion 5.1) With the movable alphabet, ask the students to shuffle it and when the teacher says, they put it in alphabetical order. Whoever finishes first wins;

(Suggestion 6) Word cloud: draw a giant cloud on the board with each letter of the alphabet and ask each student to say a word that starts with that letter. Write each word that students say on the board so they can familiarize themselves with it.

(Suggestion 7) Use colored pens to write the alphabet in cursive and block letters. For each letter ask students to make a drawing corresponding to the initial.

(Suggestion 8) Print the alphabet in various font styles. Choose as different fonts as you can. Print out of order. Then cut them out and ask students to put them in alphabetical order.

More about the content

Extra suggestions for developing activities during and after running the game.

1. Dictate the word to a partner in the pair or group.

2. Write another 2 words that have the same initial, but that didn't appear in the game.

3. Write a sentence with each of the words.

4. Read and illustrate the words.

5. Use the words to compose a word bingo.

6. Play hangman using words.

7. Gather the words of the whole class and propose that they separate them according to different criteria: words with the same number of letters, that start with the same letter, that end with the same letter, etc.

8. Build a memory game with the words and illustrations they make.

9. Write two words that start with each letter of the alphabet.

10. Write which letter comes first and which letter comes after.