Letters I know

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 10 minutes

Read together

Letters are the shapes of sounds.

A is for apple. M is for moon.

Do it

1. Start with the letters in your child's name. Say the letter, its name and its sound.
2. Hunt for those letters on cereal boxes, signs and books.
3. Make a letter from play dough or draw it large in the air.
4. Add one or two letters each week. Say, “A, a, apple”.

Talk about it

• Which letters are in your name?
• Where can we spot an M?

For the grown-up

Knowing some letters and their sounds helps children start to read. Teach a few at a time, in play. There is no hurry.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

• National Early Literacy Panel, Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (National Institute for Literacy, 2008)
• American Academy of Pediatrics, “Literacy Promotion: An Essential Component of Primary Care Pediatric Practice”, Pediatrics 134 (2014): 404 to 409

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.