Week 1: Introduction to Letters

Day 1: Letter Recognition - Provide a worksheet with a variety of uppercase and lowercase letters mixed together. - Instruct students to circle all the uppercase letters and underline all the lowercase letters. - Discuss the differences between uppercase and lowercase letters.

Day 2: Letter Tracing - Give each student a worksheet with a large letter displayed at the top. - Instruct students to trace the letter using their finger or a pencil. - Encourage students to say the letter name as they trace it.

Day 3: Letter Sorting - Prepare a worksheet with a variety of pictures and letters. - Instruct students to cut out the pictures and sort them into two groups: pictures that start with the letter displayed and pictures that do not.

Day 4: Letter Sounds - Provide a worksheet with a variety of pictures. - Instruct students to write the letter that represents the beginning sound of each picture. - Encourage students to say the letter sound as they write it.

Day 5: Letter Hunt - Create a worksheet with a grid of letters. - Instruct students to find and circle a specific letter in the grid. - Repeat the activity with different letters.

Week 2: Uppercase and Lowercase Letters

Day 1: Uppercase and Lowercase Matching - Provide a worksheet with a set of uppercase letters and a set of lowercase letters. - Instruct students to draw a line to match each uppercase letter with its corresponding lowercase letter.

Day 2: Letter Formation - Give each student a worksheet with a large letter displayed at the top. - Instruct students to trace the letter using their finger or a pencil, focusing on proper letter formation. - Encourage students to say the letter name as they trace it.

Day 3: Letter Puzzles - Prepare a worksheet with a variety of letter puzzles. - Instruct students to cut out the puzzle pieces and match the uppercase and lowercase letters to complete each puzzle.

Day 4: Letter Bingo - Create a bingo card with a grid of uppercase and lowercase letters. - Call out a letter and have students mark the corresponding letter on their bingo card. - The first student to get a line of marked letters (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) wins.

Day 5: Letter Scavenger Hunt - Create a worksheet with a list of uppercase and lowercase letters. - Instruct students to find and circle the letters in their environment (e.g., classroom, books, signs). - Encourage students to say the letter name as they find it.

Week 3: Letter Sounds and Words

Day 1: Beginning Sounds - Provide a worksheet with a variety of pictures. - Instruct students to write the letter that represents the beginning sound of each picture. - Encourage students to say the letter sound as they write it.

Day 2: Rhyming Words - Give each student a worksheet with a set of pictures. - Instruct students to circle the pictures that rhyme with a given word. - Discuss the concept of rhyming and how words that rhyme have similar ending sounds.

Day 3: Word Families - Prepare a worksheet with a word family displayed at the top (e.g., -at, -an, -it). - Instruct students to write words that belong to the word family. - Encourage students to sound out each word and write the corresponding letters.

Day 4: Sight Words - Provide a worksheet with a list of sight words (commonly used words that cannot be easily sounded out). - Instruct students to trace each sight word and then write it independently. - Discuss the importance of recognizing sight words for reading fluency.

Day 5: Word Search - Create a word search puzzle with a variety of letters. - Instruct students to find and circle sight words hidden in the puzzle. - Encourage students to say the sight word as they find it.

Week 4: Letter Review and Assessment

Day 1: Letter Review Game - Create a board game with a path of letters. - Instruct students to roll a dice and move their game piece accordingly. - When landing on a letter, students must say the letter name or sound.

Day 2: Letter Assessment - Provide an assessment worksheet with a variety of tasks related to letters (e.g., letter recognition, letter sounds, letter formation). - Instruct students to complete the tasks independently. - Use the assessment to identify areas of strength and areas that need further practice.

Day 3: Letter Art - Give each student a worksheet with a large letter displayed at the top. - Instruct students to decorate the letter using various art materials (e.g., crayons, markers, stickers). - Encourage students to think of words that start with the letter and incorporate them into their artwork.

Day 4: Letter Review Game (Part 2) - Play a letter review game similar to Hangman. - Choose a secret letter and have students guess the letter by suggesting words that start with that letter. - Fill in the secret letter in the word each time a correct guess is made.

Day 5: Letter Reflection - Provide a worksheet with a space for students to reflect on their learning. - Instruct students to draw or write about their favorite letter activity from the month. - Discuss as a class and celebrate their progress in learning letters.