by: jojo24 - 10-09-06 17:19
Hi all
Just wondered if you could all help me please. When doing basic letters with children namely 3-4 yr olds. How do you sound out the letters do you A B C it or a b c it . What I am tryin to say is do you use capital letters and their sounds? On wall displays do you display words in block capitals, please help
Thanx in advance
by: Sarah88
Not sure if this will help you, but where I work at my nursery we have a mixture of capitals and small letters on displays. On displays we have the first letter capital and then the rest small.
Literacy - 10-09-06 18:47by: baby_girl
We do the same. As much as possible, we use little letters, but we do capitals at the beginning of a sentence, or name, or sometimes at the beginning if it's a title or something.
We only do this because once the child goes to school, they learn jolly phonics using little letters.
Also, if we use the computer we use a font that doesn't have the 'fancy' a.
Literacy - 10-09-06 18:48by: baby_girl
Oh, and with the sounds, we tell them the name of the letter but tell them it makes a ....... sound.
Literacy - 10-09-06 19:05by: Sarah88
We do that with sounds as well
Literacy - 10-09-06 19:21by: jojo24
Thanks guys thats great- thats what we do to. We do letterland where we encourage the children to use the phonic sound.
Also I was wondering when children go to school do teachers encourage children in early years to spell their names for example like A B C ?
Literacy - 11-09-06 21:36by: jojo24
anyone else any thought or anything on this subject
Thanx
