Learning Letter Sounds: Your Daily Routine

Children learn best when they are actively involved in the learning process.

Instead of simply looking at letters, your child becomes actively involved in cutting, assembling, creating, talking, searching for letters, and practicing the sounds every day. These hands-on activities help children remember letter names and sounds while building confidence and strengthening fine motor skills.

Each letter becomes a fun learning experience that you share and practice together.

Start Your Day with the ABCs

• Begin each day by singing the ABC song together

• Repeat again, but this time say the letters instead of singing

• Use a simple pointer—like a wooden spoon—and point to each letter as you say it

• As your child becomes more comfortable, try saying the letters backwards to break up the routine and help them learn the letters out of order

Introduce the Vowels

• Vowels are very important—every word and every syllable must have a vowel

• Point to the vowels and say them together:
  A, E, I, O, U… and sometimes Y

• “These are the vowels… these are the vowels—everything else is a consonant!”

Introducing the Letter Sound Activity Kit

As your child learns each new letter, you'll build a Letter Sound Activity Kit together. Each kit includes everything you need for one letter lesson and becomes part of your child's daily reading routine.

As you cut, assemble, and practice together, your child is learning much more than a letter sound. They are strengthening fine motor skills, learning to follow directions, building vocabulary, and gaining confidence through hands-on learning.

Each completed letter becomes another tool that you will use again and again during your daily letter sound routine.

• As you begin creating your Letter Sound Activity Kits, you are also building your child’s daily letter sound routine.

• Each letter friend represents a letter sound

• As you make them, begin adding that sound into your daily routine

• These simple sound patterns help children connect letters to sounds in a natural and meaningful way

  👉 You can introduce sounds like:

  ○ ah ah ah for Alligator Ann
  ○ A A A for Amy Ape
  ○ buh buh buh for Bobby Bear
  ○ cuh cuh cuhfor Camel Cal
  ○ kuh kuh kuh for Katy Kangaroo

Incorporating Phonics Charts

• Begin with the color words—these can be introduced very early and help children start recognizing words in a meaningful way

• As you create your puppets, think about a helpful order:
  ○ A (vowel—two puppets)
  ○ B
  ○ C & K (together, because they share the same sound)
  ○ E (vowel—two puppets)
  ○ M & N (together)
  ○ O (vowel—two puppets)
  ○ H
  ○ S
  ○ W
  ○ T

• Once you have several of these puppets completed, you are ready to introduce some of the phonics charts for early reading

• Start with “baby words”—short words that end in a vowel

• These phonics charts will be available as free downloads