Tips to work letters and sounds at home!

How to work letters and sounds at home.

The Internet offers us a great number of possibilities and opportunities to continue learning as at school, but from home, from the office, from where they are located.

Nowadays, the access to videos and applications is easy... Most of videos and apps that we share are meant to review letters, sounds, numbers and other PreK concepts. With our mobile devices we can accelerate our learning, as well as having fun! why not to try with kids, too?

I want to share with you the steps to follow to work them at home.

1. Full video viewing.

First of all, we invite our "campeones" to watch a funny video, the ones that we use at school. We don't need to spend so much time during this activity since most of videos are short.
If this is the first time you see them, please pay attention to the video, since the following activities are related to them.

To check comprehension, we can ask you questions like:

- What's the video about?
- What do you like the most?
- What is your favorite __________?
- Can you draw (and / or write, if they already know) what you liked the most?

2. View by parts.

We'll work with the video little by little. Why pauses? 

Because we will stop to repeat and produce the sounds of the letters or words that appear in the video. In case of difficulty, we will help our kids by inviting them to see it again or we will teach them how to do it.

For example, in the video that we give as an example, we find the first letter: A.






We pause and ask:
- What letter is it?
- What is the name of this letter?
- What is the sound of this letter?

(Let's try to avoid expressions like "you know how ...", since the little ones will respond most of the times and they will not produce them).


In case of presenting difficulties we will use the image (APPLE), and we ask them the following questions:
What fruit do you see?
What is it?
Can you say/pronounce its first sound? (or the last since both are A in this case)

We positively reinforce their answers with the following expressions:
"very good"
"Excellent"

"Great job"

If, on the other hand, we do not have positive answers, we try to offer them other help such as "repeat after me ...". We can teach them how to trace the letters on the screen while we (together) repeat the sound and name it.

For the most advanced students, we can invite them to the following activities-games:

- I see, I see a little thing that starts with the letter ...
And they have to guess what is the one that starts with that letter.

- How many things in the room begin with this letter?

- How many things in the room end with this letter?

- Tell me other words that you know start / end with this letter.

Other variants can be write and read. For example, with one of your favorite book stories you can ask the same questions that we have asked for the room.

3- Again full viewing of the video without sound.

In this last part of the activities we can see the full video again and play to see how many letters and sounds you know. For each one that they know (by themselves) we can make points and those points can be exchanged for things they like. By doing so we motivate them to learn the letters and sounds, it will be very fun! 

Can you try at home? How many points will you get?

Other videos to work with letters and sounds: