- name cards
- plastic letters (uppercase/lowercase)
- name card (yours)
- lowercase
- uppercase
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1.d: Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Name Game
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Skill Focus: Compare and Contrast, Letter Recognition, Vocabulary
Give children sets of uppercase and lowercase letters. Have them search through the letters to match the letters to the letters in their names.
Demonstrate using your own name card. Hold up the name card.
- Read the card and point out that everyone’s name starts with an uppercase letter followed by lowercase letters.
- Point to the boxes of letters and say, Let’s find letters to match the letters in my name. Point to the first letter in your name and ask, What do you think I need to find first—an uppercase or lowercase letter? Continue until you have found all the letters in your name. As you find each letter, place it under the letter on your name card.
Then have children work with a partner to find some or all of the letters in their names.
- When children have completed finding the letters in their names, have them identify any letters they know.