Letter Names and Sounds

Christine AvitableIntended Grade: Kindergarten

Technology Integration Rationale

• In the world we live in today, technology has become a huge part of the way we teach children in school.

• Technology allows us as teachers to teach children the same material in many different ways, allowing teachers to reach all of the Multiple Intelligences of all the students in their classroom.

• In order to teach the letter sounds and names to kindergarteners a teacher can use many different kinds of technology such as different interactive games and apps, videos, and blogs which are great for use by either the students in their learning or the teacher is their instruction.

Internet Content

• The internet offers many different resources for teachers and students to use in teaching and learning about the letter names and the sounds that they make.

• All web sources found in this presentation are related to the instruction of letter names and sounds.

Blogs

• This blog is a great tool for teachers. It is a blog that give teachers different ways to teach children the letter names and sounds through there play, which is important with children at the kindergarten level.

• Another blog to be used as a teacher tool to children about letter names and sounds.

• This blog is another great tool for teachers to have when they are teaching their students the letter names and sounds as it discusses some of the challenges a teacher may face when they are teaching this topic to their students.

Instructional Videos

• Video of a song that sings about the letter names and their sounds.

• Another video of a song that gets the children up and moving while singing about letter names and sounds.

• The image on the right is a screenshot from the first video.

Internet Resources• ABC Ninja is an app for an iPad that is great for students to use to

practice their skills in letter names and sounds and can be used in any setting whether it may be whole or small group instruction or individual instruction.

• Internet 4 Classrooms is a website that has a lot of different games that can be used in instruction about letter names and sounds. This website would be of great use on a SMART board for teacher to us in whole or small group instruction or for a student to use during their own time.

• From the Scholastic website there is a game that brings letter recognition to a bit of a more advanced level allowing students to match beginning letters of a word to a box with the letter is belongs in using a popular book character, Clifford.

Inspiration

More Worksheets

• Through this website, teachers can access more worksheets on helping children with their letter sounds and names as they match the letter with the picture. Then there are also some more challenging worksheets for the more advanced students in order to help with differentiation.

Books Galore!

• The Scholastic website provides list of different books that can be used as an aid to help teach students about the letter names and the sounds that each letter makes. The books listed are all great resources for teaching this topic.

A Helping Hand

• Scholastic also provides numerous lesson plans that a teacher can borrow ideas from in the help of writing their own lesson plans. This would be like using these lessons as spring boards to help get their own lessons started. This website is a great way to help teachers who may be struggling with where to go next from a previous lesson or just get an idea for a new topic.