Alphabet teaching in early grades

Alphabet is the key to start teaching a pupil in their early grades. Every child should get to grade 3 fully able to read and write a complete letter alphabet without stammering or hesitation. A grade 3 child should be able to read any word saying out sounds (phonics) despite knowing its meaning. (considering native/ non-native speakers) Alphabet should be taught in both Capital and small letters, just like:

Aa     Bb     Cc     Dd     Ee     Ff      Gg    Hh     Ii     Jj     Kk     Ll    Mm     Nn     Oo     Pp     Qq     Rr     Ss      Tt     Uu    Vv     Ww   Xx     Yy   Zz.

This is important to make sure that up to grade 3, every child is literate.

Further, the vowels alphabet is also important:

Aa      Ee      Ii     Oo     Uu

Source: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-vowels

Learn more about the history of the alphabet: 

Source: http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/pp/slides/17alphabet.pdf

For future studies, here is another type of alphabet that we use in Linguistics:

The International Phonetic Alphabet.

Learn more about the International Phonetic Alphabet:

Source: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/

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Lazarus Gawazah.