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Home » Education » Homeschool Language Arts » Letter Formation and Street Signs

Letter Formation and Street Signs

April 10, 2012 by Crystal McClean

We enjoy going for walks and learning about our surroundings.  Where we live the street signs are very low, usually at about hip level.  Tristan became curious and began asking about them. 

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Reading readiness practice

 He understood that there were letters on the signs and wanted to know what they were.  We made a game out of tracing the letters to learn about letter formation.

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We began to stop at some of them and I would tell him the letters as he traced them with his finger to become acquainted with the figures.

Using your environment to learn to read, photo It became a game for him and soon he was hunting out the signs and asking about every one!  Tristan doing this reminds me of the first word I was able to “sound out” in Japan – it was a sign as well!  

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We haven’t done this for a while now, but now that he’s familiar with the letters our next step will be to start sounding out the words of the streets and learning which ones are where.

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Following on from this will also be some map work.  This is also a great exercise for learning your address and giving it meaning.

Update:  Tristan is now learning to read, and this year it will be Kallista’s turn to do some letter tracing on our walks.

For more ideas on learning the alphabet, try a name puzzle or other fun ways to learn to spell your name, or see our Learning About Letters page.

 

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Filed Under: Homeschool Language Arts Tagged With: Alphabet, Kindergarten, Letters, Literacy, outdoors, Preschool, Toddlers

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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