1. Interests
1.1. Sports
1.1.1. Strategy: Wear a jersey that reflects a specific letter.
1.1.2. Strategies: Cut out your favorite sport team and match it with a letter.
1.2. Song
1.2.1. Strategy: Create your own alphabet song.(Students can record their song using the classroom computer and a recording app (Quickvoice)
1.2.2. Strategy Write a song about the alphabet.
2. Learning Profiles
2.1. Visual
2.1.1. Strategy: Have each letter posted on the board or use a powerpoint projector to illustrate each letter in bold colors.
2.1.2. Strategy: Have images to go with each word (for example having the letter A be accompanied with an apple)
2.2. Audio
2.2.1. Strategy: Listen to a version of the alphabet song (students can watch videos on youtube or they can listen to it during free time on an audio device, such as tape recorder)
2.2.2. Strategy: The teacher says the letter, and then the students repeat
2.3. Kinesthetic
2.3.1. Strategy: Have students write the letters using playdough or shaving cream
2.3.2. Strategy: Create or draw an object that begins with your name. (K - draw a kitten)
3. Readiness
3.1. Lower level students
3.1.1. Strategy: Write the letters of the English alphabet
3.2. Average
3.2.1. Strategy: Teacher will say a letter, student must write it out.
3.2.2. Strategy: Teacher will say a letter, student must give a word that begins with that eltter.
3.3. Higher level
3.3.1. Strategy: Teacher will say a letter, student must pronounce the sound that that letter makes.
3.3.2. Strategy: Teacher will say a word, teacher must give the letter that the word begins with.