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Early Reading and Scientifically-Based Research

Title I Directors' Conference
February 2003

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Teaching about Letters

Research shows it is important for young children to be able to:

• Recognize and name letters
• Recognize beginning letters in familiar words (especially their own name)
• Recognize both capital and lowercase letters
• Relate some letters to the specific sounds they represent

Teachers can reinforce teaching about letters through the classroom environment, by providing letters as manipulatives, by playing games with letters, and by helping children write letters.