ABC for children speaking online. Letters

ABC is an educational and developmental game for preschoolers 2-5 years old, with the help of which kids can quickly and fun learn the alphabet, letters for children, and learn to write them.

ABC capabilities

• Learning letters for children in Russian, in English (learning English letters, as well as learning the English alphabet), in Spanish and Portuguese;
• The ABC will teach you to correctly pronounce vowels and consonants, syllables;
• ABC for preschoolers includes tasks for writing letters;
• The talking alphabet for kids will develop phonemic awareness;
• The alphabet game for children contains many cards with different objects, the study of which will expand your vocabulary;
• The alphabet educational game will train fine motor skills.

Advantages

• Learning the alphabet is 100 bright and memorable pictures for kids to illustrate words that start with different letters.
• The alphabet game is a sequential study of each letter for children in Russian: we hear, pronounce, write capital and uppercase letters, guess and learn words that begin with a given letter.
• The ABC includes tasks to reinforce learned letters: contour puzzles, as well as a quiz.
• We study the Russian alphabet with voice-over: a fun alphabet for kids has a professional voice-over, thanks to which the baby will learn to correctly perceive all sounds by ear and pronounce them.
• ABC is an opportunity to learn the alphabets of 4 languages ​​- the Russian alphabet (Russian alphabet for the little ones and the Russian alphabet for preschoolers), the English alphabet (learn the English alphabet with pronunciation for the little ones and the English alphabet for children), Spanish and Portuguese alphabets.
• You can download our children's educational games for free for ages 2 and up.

Suitable for children of what ages?

• ABC for children 3 years old;
• the alphabet for children from 4 years old or the alphabet for children 4 years old, and we also learn the alphabet for children from 4 years old and we learn letters for children from 4 years old;
• the alphabet for children 5 years old or the alphabet for children 5 years old for free, and we also learn letters for children from 5 years old.

How to play the alphabet for little ones

1. ABC offers sequential learning of letters. By playing the alphabet for children, the child will be able to learn each letter step by step, namely its pronunciation, spelling, and will also hear and see examples of words that begin with this letter. Having started learning the alphabet for kids with the letter A, we gradually learn letters and sounds with the child and discover all the letters for him while we learn the alphabet for children from 3 years old!
2. Children's alphabet learning letters: Learning to write letters. Having started learning the children's alphabet with the letter A and having mastered it, the child will be able to play an exciting game of learning letters by painting the outline of this letter painted on the fence with yellow paint with his finger. The ABC shows your child the correct technique for writing letters. After successfully completing the task of the “learning letters” game, the child will hear words of praise.
3. Learning the alphabet for kids: A fun game with the alphabet. We study the alphabet and consolidate knowledge by playing children's educational games and completing tasks - the child is given 3 contours, into each of which he needs to transfer the corresponding letter.
4. Children's educational and educational games and applications for children from 3 to 5 the alphabet in the form of a fun quiz will help your child remember which letter words begin with and expand their vocabulary!

We can say that today the paper primer for little ones and the free primer for preschool age are a thing of the past, because the game, which allows you to learn the letters of the Russian alphabet, is full of bright colors and funny virtual toys to make learning the alphabet fun. In addition, children's educational and educational games and applications for children from 2 to 3 years old have a simple interface that a child can understand in a minute.

Perhaps the title of this article will seem immodest to you, and the author - arrogant. You might think that the author used such a title to attract the attention of readers.

Yes it is. The purpose of this title is to draw your attention to the truly most effective way to teach a child the letters of the Russian alphabet in the shortest possible time and teach him to pronounce these letters with sounds. You will see for yourself the simplicity and effectiveness of this method by reading this article and starting to teach your child letters with its help. After just five lessons, your child will know all 10 vowels well and will begin to memorize consonants, even if he did not know a single letter before. And, most importantly, he will learn letters during games and remember them firmly.

But first, a little digression. Before you start teaching your child letters, you must decide why he needs it. Some parents are proud that they were able to teach letters to a two-year-old or even one-and-a-half-year-old child. But you should only do this if you also start teaching your child to read. Any knowledge must immediately find its practical application. But teaching letters by itself, without simultaneously learning to read, makes no sense. There are many other, no less effective, ways to develop a child’s memory and stimulate the brain during its formation. It’s good if, by the time the child begins learning to read, he forgets these prematurely learned letters and does not begin to pronounce them the way he was once taught: Be, Ve, Ge... or By, You, Gy..., otherwise when reading this It will really bother him. You ask: “Well, if you teach a child letters and reading at the same time, then at what age is it better to start, from two years old?” I believe that at home, in the family, a mother with a child of this age can already study; but first for half a minute, and then for several minutes throughout the day. As a result of such “lessons”, built in the form of a game, the child will develop the ability to concentrate on some specific activity, and then, starting from the age of three and even a little earlier, he can be taught to read in a group of children like him. Just don’t forget that learning to read, especially early learning, should take place without coercion, in play, against a background of positive emotions.

A game method for learning ten vowels in 5 lessons

So, you have set out to teach your child to read books. You will, of course, start by learning letters with him. In what order should they be taught? Of course, not in alphabetical order and not in complete disorder, when the child is given vowels and consonants mixed up.

An important factor in the initial stage of learning to read in vocabulary is the child’s solid knowledge of the ten letters that represent vowel sounds (hereinafter, for simplicity, I will simply call them “vowels”). I have more than once drawn my attention to the fact that children who read poorly, even schoolchildren, are hesitant to name vowels, and when reading they stumble, remembering whether it is E, or Yo, or YU. In view of the paramount importance of knowing ten vowels for full reading (so that the child does not “stumble” in every warehouse), I developed this game technique for quickly learning them, which I have been successfully using for several years now.

The duration of each of the five lessons of this technique is several minutes. Lessons are held twice a week, and on the remaining days of the week, parents repeat the content of the previous lesson with the child for two to seven minutes a day. I calculated that teaching a child ten vowels using this method takes a total of just over an hour.

The methodology is based on the principle of repeated display and synchronous sounding of a group of symbols with their gradual partial replacement, proposed by the outstanding teacher Glen Doman. In this case, the task is made easier by the fact that in Russian the vowels form pairs that seem to rhyme: A - Z, O - E, U - Yu, Y - I, E - E. I supplemented the multiple screening with five reinforcing games I developed.

• The goal of classes using this method is to give the child a solid knowledge of ten vowels in five lessons. Often, parents believe that their child does not need this: “He has known all the letters since he was two years old.” When you start showing him the letters, it turns out that he doesn’t know them well. Confused E With Yo or with YU, does not know E, Y, sometimes thinks, remembering a letter. Before starting to learn to read, the child’s knowledge of all vowels must be brought to automaticity.
• From other ways of learning letters, which often only slow down their assimilation and make it difficult to use ( A- watermelon, AND- turkey or ABOUT- like a bagel, YU- Yulina letter, I- looks like a pole with a lantern, etc.), this technique is simple and effective.

Lesson #1

Write or print the vowel letters on thick white paper, each on a separate card: letters A, O, U, Y, E- in large bold red font on cards measuring 12x10cm, and I, Yo, Yu, I, E- in blue bold font of a slightly smaller size on 9x10cm cards. For the first lesson you will only need cards A, Z, O, Yo.

On the back of each card, write this letter by hand for yourself, so as not to look at the front side when showing the letters to your child.

Classes can be taught by a teacher or one of the child’s parents.

Showing the first two pairs of vowels (A - Z, O - E).

Place two pairs of cards in a stack as shown in the left picture, with the back side facing you. Move the card closest to you A forward (as indicated by the arrow in the right picture) and show it to the child. Say: "This is A". Then put the next card forward and say: "This is I"; then - "This is - ABOUT"; and then - "This is - Yo"Show each card no longer than 1 second. Do it in a fun way, like a game. Look not at the cards, but into the child’s eyes to see where he is looking and attract his attention. Letters A And ABOUT most children already know. You can pause and give the child the opportunity to name them himself. A letters I And Yo quickly name it yourself, before the child, so as not to give him the opportunity to make a mistake. And don't ask your child to repeat them. Your task is to quickly show these four letters and at the same time recite a small poem:

"This - A"

"This - I"

"This - ABOUT"

"This - Yo"

Children can easily remember longer poems, and even more so, they will soon begin to repeat such an easy poem on their own.

If you are a teacher, explain to the child's mother present in class that she must show and name these four letters to him every day until the next lesson at least five times a day. Let her do this the first time in your presence so that you can correct her if she does something wrong. Do not hesitate to explain everything to parents in the same detail as to their children and check that they understand you. Shuffle the cards. Ask mom to put them in the right order. Then she must sit or stand the child in front of her and look into his eyes while showing the letters. She must pronounce letters unfamiliar to the child clearly and before him. A typical mistake is when mom takes out the next letter and holds it in her other hand, without covering the last letter with it. In this case, the child sees two letters at the same time.

Tell your mom that all her homework will take her half a minute a day, because... one such display lasts five seconds. It’s just important not to miss them. Gradually, the pause after the word “This is...” should be increased, and the word itself should be pronounced with a questioning intonation, as if encouraging the child to name the letters himself. The child must simply name the letter. He shouldn't say "this" A" or "letter A"Give your mother the four letters you made and ask her to bring them with her to class.

Lesson #2

By the beginning of this lesson, the children had already repeated for two or three days after their mother A, Z, O, Yo and remembered them well in this order.

Reinforcing games.

Now with these four letters you need to play five reinforcing games so that the children firmly remember them both in the order of the learned rhyme and separately.

Place four cards in pairs on the table in front of the child, calling them out loud, in the order in which they were shown to him. After that, start playing games.

1st game. "Wind". Explain to your child that the red letters are big brothers, and the blue letters are little brothers. Then say: “The wind came and mixed up all the brothers.” Mix the letters yourself so they don't end up upside down. Then let the child put them in order in pairs, calling out loud: A- near I, ABOUT- near Yo(with your help at first).

2nd game. "Hide and seek." Cover the smaller cards with larger ones (red letters on top) and change the order of these pairs: “The little brothers hid under the big ones and swapped places so that Helen wouldn’t find them. Guess which little brother hid under the big brother ABOUT? That's right, under ABOUT hid Yo! And under A? Right, I!"

3rd game. "Hide and seek." You play the same way, but this time it’s the other way around - the big brothers are hiding under the little ones.

4th game. "Crow". Move your palms over the cards laid out in the correct order and say: “The crow flew, flew, flew, flew and... ate the letter.” Quickly cover one of the letters with your palm: “Which letter did the crow eat?” It is better to move both palms at the same time, so that it is more difficult for the child to guess which letter you are going to cover. If he was unable to answer quickly, remove your palm for a moment and cover the letter again. If he doesn’t say even then, tell me, for example: “Next to ABOUT. Right, Yo!" Over time, the child will remember the location of the letters and will guess them easily.

Game 5 "Cards". Now use the same cards to play with your child the same way adults play cards. You shuffle the cards, then throw a card on the table in front of him and ask: “What is this?” If you name it correctly - you win and take the card, if you make a mistake - another student takes it, and at home - your mother takes it. Don’t rush to allow other students to give you hints, let your child think a little. At first, try throwing cards in pairs: first ABOUT, for her Yo, A — I etc. If the child wins confidently, throw in pairs, but in reverse order. Then start throwing randomly.

The mother present at the lesson remembers and writes down how to play these five games at home. You only need to play once a day, unless the child asks for more. But each time, stop the game while he still wants to play: “We’ll finish the game another time.”

Showing three pairs of vowels (A - Z, O - Yo, U - Yu).

After you have played five games with the first two pairs of letters, draw the next pair of cards you made U - Yu, write them on the back for yourself and add them to the pile (after the lesson, give this pile, all six letters, to your mother).

Now show your child three pairs of letters the same way you showed him two pairs in lesson No. 1. Only this time the child names the first four letters, and you quickly name the last two yourself, not letting him make a mistake (remind your mother of this too). Give mom the same instructions as in lesson No. 1. By the next lesson, after two or three days of showing, the child will remember a new poem:

"This - A"

"This - I"

"This - ABOUT"

"This - Yo"

"This - U"

"This - YU"

Give your mom these six letters you made and ask her to bring them with her to the next lesson.

Attention! After lesson No. 2, the mother shows the child these three pairs of vowels several times a day, but so far plays reinforcement games with him only for the first two pairs ( A - Z, O - E) once a day.

Lesson #3

By the beginning of this lesson, the children had already learned the rhyme:

"This - A"

"This - I"

"This - ABOUT"

"This - Yo"

"This - U"

"This - YU",

and the letters A, Z, O, Yo thanks to five reinforcing games they know and randomly. Now they need to consolidate the knowledge of the last vowels they learned U And YU.

Reinforcing games.

Place the following six cards in pairs on the table in front of your child, calling them out loud, in the order in which they were shown to him. After this, play the games detailed in Lesson No. 2.

Show your child these three pairs of letters as you did in previous lessons. As before, the child names the first four letters, and you quickly name the last two yourself, not letting him make a mistake (remind your mother of this too).

Give your mom all the letters you made and ask her to bring them with her to the next lesson. Tell your mom that all her homework will now take her no more than six minutes a day and remind her that it is important not to miss any of them.

Attention! Pay attention to the mother that after this lesson the child needs to be shown these three pairs of vowels several times a day, putting aside those that are well known to him AND I. And in the evening you need to play reinforcement games with him once only for the first three pairs: A - Z, O - Yo, U - Yu(without yet Y,— AND).

Lesson #4

By the beginning of the fourth lesson, children know the following vowels in pairs: A - Z, O - E, U - Yu, Y - I, and the letters A, Z, O, E, U, Yu Thanks to reinforcing games, they know randomly. Now they need to consolidate the knowledge of the last vowels they learned Y And AND.

Reinforcing games.

You have already realized that the number of vowels with which we play reinforcement games increases with each lesson: in the second lesson we played with four letters, in the third - with six, and now these five games need to be played with eight letters.

Place the following eight cards in pairs on the table in front of your child, calling them out loud, in the order in which they were shown to him. After this, play the games detailed in Lesson No. 2.

Showing three pairs of vowels (U - Yu, Y - I, E - E).

This time you remove the first two pairs of cards AND I And O - Yo, and take out the last pair you made E - E. Label these cards on the back for yourself and add them to the pile. The total number of letters shown is still six and the rhyme remains just as easy to remember. It is also important that the letters E And Yo, which children often confuse, never “meet” when shown: when the letter “came” E in the fourth lesson, letter Yo already gone". Now the cards are in the pile in the following order.

Show your child these three pairs of letters as you did in previous lessons. As before, the child names the first four letters, and new ones for him E And E you quickly name it yourself, not allowing him to make a mistake (once again remind your mother of this). Give your mom all ten letters you made and ask her to bring them with her to class. Tell her that all her homework will now take her no more than six to seven minutes a day and remind her that it is important not to miss a single one. But it really worries me a lot...
Thank you!

How can you tell if a child has already memorized a letter or not if he is still 4 months old and cannot speak?

This article corresponds to the modern level of ideas about early development, set in the book Read Before You Walk in 1995 - 1996.
The author quite correctly states:
“Before you start teaching your child letters, you must decide why he needs it.”
"Any knowledge must immediately find its practical application."
- That is, letters should be learned if you teach reading at the same time, otherwise the child will quickly forget the letters.
What is the author's mistake here, if any?
This error is purely technical, but it can play a fatal role - the author himself, apparently, is intuitively aware, but he calls “letters” - letters, and not letter sounds, as recommended in the system of “true early development: Reading before you walk” . It is clear from the text that he does not rule out calling the letters BE, GE, DE, etc. But this is categorically excluded in Tyulenev’s system, which since the 80s is that you cannot tell a child BE, GE, etc. even once, because the child instantly remembers and then it is very difficult for him to form words from the letters BE, ME, GE and so on.!
Another clarification.
When asked at what age, the author answers that at two years old you can start:
“I believe that at home, in the family, a mother with a child of this age can already study; but first for half a minute, and then for several minutes throughout the day.”
This is correct, but you can start using Sharovarov’s “Read before you speak” and Tyulenev’s “Read before you walk” methods even before you are a year old.
So, in 2002, in fact, it was recorded that using a special method a child can be taught to read as early as six months - this was reported at this conference.
Here's another clarification. The author recommends:
"Write or print the vowels on thick white paper, each on a separate card: the letters A, O, U, Y, E - in large bold red font on cards measuring 12x10cm, and I, E, Yu, I, E - in blue in bold print in a slightly smaller size on 9x10cm cards...."
- for group classes, this size of cards can be useful.
However, since 1988 it has been proven that cards of a much smaller size can be used, for example, the “ABC of Genius” cards - the Universal Developmental ABC of Methods of Intellectual Development, abbreviated as URAMIR - for classes with a newborn have dimensions of 7 x 3 cm.
In general, the article is wonderful, although there are no links to primary sources, and many of the ideas and recommendations of the book Read Before Walking in this article are either not learned, or the author does not know about them...
I believe that exactly the way Polyakov did it, we need to work through every step of early development methods. :)

oh, there’s a whole dissertation, I just learned the sounds, and then we learned to read according to Zhukova with both the little ones and the older ones

This page contains ready-made files with the Russian alphabet, which you can download absolutely free or print on a printer. We have prepared several variants of alphabets, as well as cards with letters of the Russian alphabet.

All files presented here can be easily printed on an A4 sheet. Any alphabet can be printed on a color or black and white printer.

We strived to create simple and understandable materials that would not be overloaded with unnecessary images or unnecessary design elements. We will be very grateful if you tell your friends about this page.

All materials were prepared specifically for the Khvatalkin website. Placing images and files presented on this page on other sites is strictly prohibited.

Alphabet with pictures

Our alphabet with pictures can be printed on either a color or black and white printer. When printed on a black and white printer, the images are perfectly recognized.

We tried to select images that will be understandable to the child. Perhaps only b, y and b will raise questions. Anyway, just in case, check out the full list of words (images):

• Watermelon
• Banana
• Bike
• Pear
• Tree
• Blackberry
• Giraffe
• Needle
• Yogurt
• Pencil
• Horse
• Scissors
• Monkey
• Tomato
• Telephone
• Snail
• Flashlight
• Flower
• Kettle
• Brush
• entrance
• goose
• Excavator
• Apple

Educational video - Alphabet in pictures

Choose your Alphabet

Alphabet cards

Alphabet without pictures

What is the fastest way to learn letters with your child? The easiest way is to hang a poster with the alphabet on the wall and regularly voice it to your child... But... this method does not work for all children! Unfortunately, many children get bored very quickly and simply “run away” from such activities.

If you find yourself in such a situation, do not despair! There are many fun letter learning games that your child will love!

Before you start learning letters, it is important not to forget:

Most preschool teachers agree that it is best to teach children the “sound” interpretation of letters (not “Ka” but “K”, not “Be”, but “B”, etc.).

This is done so that later it will be much easier for the child to learn to add syllables.

Compare in which case it will be easier for a child to “figure out” how to form a syllable:

Sound option: “B” + “A” = “BA”

Letter version: “Be” + “A” = ?????- P about the logic of things, children often want to say “BeA” at this point, and this is where it arises the main problem that many parents face when teaching their children “classic” letter names (such as “Be” “Ve”, etc.) - when reading syllables, it is difficult for a child to mentally reject the sound “a” from “Ka”, the sound “e” from “Ve”, etc. (they want to read not “VA”, but “VEA”, not “BU”, but “BeU”, etc.)

And this complexity becomes a serious obstacle to teaching a child the skill of combining individual letters into syllables.

Therefore, studying the “sound” interpretation of letters will be much preferable.

“Learning letters is fun!” - educational games for non-boring children!

1. Coloring.

Everything is simple here! You can download coloring pages with letters from the Internet and invite your child to color them. The child will engage in creativity with interest, and at the same time consolidate knowledge about the new letter.

To prevent the child from getting bored with the coloring process, you need to use various interesting techniques:

Color letters not only with pencils, but also with paints, wax crayons, and stamps;

Paint with your fingers using finger paints;

Use unconventional drawing techniques ( cotton swabs, crumpled paper, blots and so on.).

2. Decorate the letter.

Children will have fun decorating the letters!

You can decorate them with plasticine, applique, colored glass, construction kit parts... whatever you want!

Try decorating the letter “A” with watermelons, the letter “B” with bananas, etc.

3. We sculpt.

A very useful activity is to sculpt letters from colored dough or plasticine. And if you combine sculpting with listening to songs by Ekaterina Zheleznova from the album “Musical ABC Book” (in which the whole process of sculpting is “sung” in a very interesting way) - then sculpting will be even more fun.

Wonderful mothers, passionate about the development of children, have long made funny videos from these songs and posted them online.

For example, while playing and watching a funny video, you can make the letter A in a fun and interesting way:

Tilt two sticks

Connect at the top

One crossbar -

Like a letter A tent!

4. Halves - a game to consolidate knowledge about already familiar letters.

In the process of learning the alphabet, the process of repetition is important. Still would! After all, by the time you get to “I”, you must try not to forget the letter “A”.

The process of repeating already learned material will be more fun with the game “Halves”!

Cut out beautiful cards with letters, cut them into two parts, mix them.

Invite your child to “fold” letters from two halves.

5. Memory.

To consolidate the material covered, the well-known game “Memory” is also suitable (at the same time, attention and memory are trained). You will need a set of cards in which each of the pictures with a certain letter is presented in duplicate.

Shuffle the cards and place them in front of the child, white side up.

Ask him to turn over any of the cards, name the sound that the open letter represents. Then the player needs to find exactly the same card among the others that have not yet been turned over. The player looks for the desired letter by turning over the remaining cards and checking what is written on them.

Did you open the wrong letter? Turn it back to the white side up and look for a pair further!

When the required card is found, the player takes two cards for himself and the game continues until a pair is found for each card.

6. We write on semolina.

Children love to draw on semolina! Without exception, everything - from young to old! Even if your child is already 10 years old and seems “so big” already, believe me, he will be delighted with drawing on semolina!

7. Lotto and foil.

Another way to study and repeat letters is lotto.

Not all children are enthusiastic about letter lotto. In order to interest the child in this game, you can use foil or paper.

Prepare the playing field, and also wrap the letter figures in foil or paper.

Invite your child to unfold the letter and place it in its place on the lotto playing field.

Lotto can be sound - in this case you need to put a letter on a card on which an object is drawn that begins with this letter.

8. Letter eater.

A cheerful Bukvoeshka may appear in your home. The easiest way to do this is to take a glove doll or a soft toy.

For example, this cockerel -

very unusual! He eats letters! Come on! Let him eat the letter B! And now he wants the letter A! Oh, how deliciously you feed the cockerel!

You can play the letter game in another way:

Funny people live in this box. They eat nothing but letters. Let's feed them? (the little people's mouths are the slits in the box).

Here is their food (we draw letters on the beans with a felt-tip pen):

We feed the little men (each little man has his own letter, if the baby makes a mistake, the little men spit merrily, close their mouths and demand to be fed another food that suits them better (beans with their “own” letter):

9. We design.

We lay out the silhouettes of letters from counting sticks, matches, Lego and everything else that comes to hand:

Some children may find it difficult to form letters from available materials (especially if the child is under 3.5 years old).

With such children you can design using the “overlay” method.

To do this, you can draw these simple diagrams:

Also, in order to build letters, you can use the Zheleznovs’ musical primer, which was already written about in paragraph 3 of this article.

For example, poetry and a song, which is described in paragraph 3 for "A" can also be used to construct this letter from sticks (Tilt two sticks, connect them at the top, one crossbar - like a letter A tent!)

11. Pierce.

Draw a letter on paper. Place a piece of paper on the carpet or soft sofa and hand the child a toothpick (the object is, of course, sharp... but in 90% of cases children easily learn safety precautions and no problems arise). Ask him to decorate the letter with holes (pierce the letter along the outline).

12. Outline.

This is a great game for learning how to write letters.

Draw the letter with paints. And then ask your child to circle it with a different color... or several colors. Of course, it is better to draw the letter on an A4 sheet.

You can even “write” entire words this way:

13. Connection of letters and sounds.

Look, these animals have lost their letters:

What sound does “Elephant” begin with? That's right, on "C". Where is our letter "S"? Let's give it back to the elephant!

14. “Find it!”

Find all the letters “K” in this picture and circle them!

And in this picture there are all the letters “T”:

Find all the red M's... And now the blue ones... And now the orange ones, etc.

Now count - how many letters "M" did you find in total?

15. Games with mosaics.

Lay out the letter from the mosaic according to the example:

A simpler and more interesting option:

Roll out the dough, draw a letter on it with a felt-tip pen... and decorate it with a mosaic!

You can also decorate the letters on the dough with other items, such as cereal:

16. Outdoor game “Run to the letter”

This game is good because it is active - it is more like a fun game of catch-up, rather than a learning process. It can be used instead of a mobile pause in class to have a useful rest.

Hang pictures of different letters on the walls of the room (you can use letters that you “decorated” with your child).

Now we give the child the command: “Run quickly, quickly to the letter C!”

And now to the letter “A”!

This game not only helps you learn letters in motion, it also develops attention and memory.

If a child refuses to run at your command, you can take him by the hand and run with him.

A very interesting variation of this game was invented and offered on her website by Natalya Chistokletova (). It's a game - “Cover the letter with your palm”:

Game "Feed the Monster":

17. Outdoor game “Jump-jump-team!”

This game is also active, and therefore children also love it!

Do you remember the funny program “Jump-Jump-Team” on the “Carousel” channel?

You can play “jump-jump-team” with letters!

Let's take a cube with letters! (if you don’t have one ready-made, you can make it... Well, as a last resort, just turn the cards with the letters down with the image down and pull them out one at a time).

For example, this simple cube can be made using a children's cube, tape and paper:

Let's throw the dice... What have we got? Yeah! "U".

What happens with “U”... Snail? Let's show her (we put a pillow on our back and start crawling on the floor).

Now what? Letter "C". At "C" we have an elephant! Let's show it too!

18. Sound poster.

My daughter learned the letters in a couple of months on her own, without any help from me...

And a sound poster helped me with this!

The meaning of its action is simple - the child clicks on a picture with a letter - the poster pronounces the sound it represents.

How much time and effort I saved thanks to this poster... And I spent it on other useful games with my daughter, which would not have happened without my participation.

The only “But!” - it is better to buy posters that work in the mode of studying not the names of letters (for example, “Ka”, “Sha”, “Be”, etc.), but the names of the sounds that these letters represent (not “Ka” but “K” , not “Be”, but “B”). The advisability of such a study was already discussed at the beginning of the article. There are now quite a lot of posters that offer the “sound” sound of each letter.

Of course, this article does not list all the possible ways to learn letters with a child - in fact, there are many more! Play, play and don't stop playing - there is no better way for a child to learn!

The alphabet of the Russian language has a centuries-old history. And although this is a well-known truth, few know who invented it and when.

Where did the Russian alphabet come from?

The history of the Russian alphabet goes back to ancient times, during the times of pagan Kievan Rus.

The order to create the Russian alphabet came from the Emperor of Byzantium, Michael III, who instructed the brother monks to develop the letters of the Russian alphabet, later called the Cyrillic alphabet. This happened in 863.

The Cyrillic alphabet had its roots in the Greek script, but since Cyril and Methodius came from Bulgaria, this land became a center for the spread of literacy and writing. Church Greek and Latin books began to be translated into Old Church Slavonic. After several centuries it became exclusively the language of the church, but played an important role in the development of the modern Russian language. Many consonants and vowels have not survived to this day, since this Russian alphabet has undergone many changes. The main transformations affected the alphabet during the time of Peter and during the October Revolution.

How many letters are in the alphabet?

However, it is interesting not only who invented the Russian alphabet, but also how many letters it contains. Most people, even as adults, doubt how many there are: 32 or 33. And what can we say about children! There is every reason for this. Let's dive into history.

The Old Church Slavonic alphabet (as it came down to us in written sources) had 43 letters. Subsequently, 4 more letters were added, and 14 were removed, since the sounds they denoted ceased to be pronounced or merged with similar sounds. In the 19th century, Russian historian and writer N. Karamzin introduced the letter “ё” into the alphabet.

For a long time, “E” and “E” were considered one letter, so it was common to think that there are 32 letters in the alphabet.

Only after 1942 they were separated, and the alphabet became 33 letters.

The alphabet of the Russian language in its current form is divided into vowels and consonants.

We pronounce vowels freely: the sound passes through the vocal cords without obstacles.
Consonant sounds require an obstacle in the way to be created. In modern Russian, these letters and sounds are in the following relationship, while the number of sounds and letters will be different:

• - sounds: vowels – 6, consonants – 37;
• - letters: vowels - 10, consonants - 21.

If we don’t go into details and say briefly, this is explained by the fact that some vowel letters (e, ё, yu, ya) can denote two sounds, and consonants have pairs of hardness and softness.

By spelling, letters are distinguished between uppercase and lowercase letters:

Their writing is associated with the need to highlight proper and common nouns in the text (capitals are used for the latter, as well as for writing words in general).

Learning the order of letters

Even if your child knows what the letters are called, closer to school age a problem arises in that they need to remember the letters in order in the alphabet. Most children confuse letters for a long time and cannot put them in the right order. Although it is very easy to help a child. There are several ways to do this.

Photos and pictures for kids

Pictures and photos with letters can help you learn the alphabet. You can download them on our website, print them, stick them on thick cardboard and practice with your child.

How can pictures and photos attached to letter symbols be useful?

Beautiful design and bright colors will surely attract the attention of kids. Children become interested in everything unusual and colorful - and learning goes faster and more exciting. The Russian alphabet and pictures will become best friends in lessons for kids.

Another option is a table of letters with numbers, numbers

You can also easily download and print it on the website. A numbered letter list for children can make learning the alphabet order much easier for those who can count. This is how the children firmly remember how many letters are in the alphabet, and the accompanying photos and pictures that the table includes help build an associative series. So someone came up with a great idea - to teach the alphabet with pictures and photos.

Educational cartoons

No one will argue with the fact that all children love cartoons. But this love can be put to good use and you can learn the alphabet with the help of specially created educational cartoons. They include excerpts from Soviet cartoons, bright letter symbols, pictures, and songs. Musical accompaniment forces children to hum and rhyme the alphabet, and this way they remember it much faster.

— “The alphabet in cartoons”

This cartoon can be viewed here:

This is an excellent video tutorial for children. There is not only writing and reading letters, but also excerpts from cartoons, images of what words with a particular letter mean, etc. The baby will have no choice but to remember the song and the order of the letters.

— “Learning letters: the alphabet in verse”

You can watch this cartoon here:

In addition to colorful cartoons and melodic music, the cartoon “Learning Letters: The ABC in Poems” offers simple verses that are easy to remember and tell the child which letter is next in the alphabet.

— “ABC for Kids” by Berg Sound Studio

This is a great cartoon for those children who are already familiar with the alphabet and are trying to read. Here we learn the alphabet and rules for writing words with the Computer and its assistant File. Using words as an example, they tell kids how to read, and what place the letters occupy in the alphabet, as well as how many letters there are in the Russian alphabet. This fascinating cartoon lasts 30-40 minutes, so you will have to be patient. But children won’t need it: the material is presented in a playful way, and the kids won’t get bored.

You can view the cartoon here

— “Learning letters with the cat Busya”

You can download the cartoon here

The main character is the cat Busya, who emerged from an illustrated primer to show children how letters look and are read. The cartoon has not only colorful drawings, but also musical accompaniment. Busya the cat reads short poems dedicated to a specific letter.

— “Learning the Russian alphabet”

It’s easy to watch this cartoon here

It consists of viewing an illustrated primer, and a male voice pleasantly and leisurely reads short poems dedicated to letters.

Thus, learning the alphabet should be interesting for children, then they will quickly and easily master the material. We teach in a fun and unobtrusive way! This is the main key to success. You can download the video on our website or print out the pictures, buy books for children or manuals that speak the alphabet on batteries in the store. Cover all available places in the apartment with letters and tables with the alphabet. Learning must be integrated into life itself, and then it will become invisible to the child, but as effective as possible.