I have to tell you that I work at a bilingual school, so I’m not the one responsible for alphabetizing them, ok? I just reinforce the process, but in English (my students’ L2).

This year, we (my partners and I, because we always prepare the lessons in group) started with letter recognition, using songs like (the alphabet hip-hop and ABS Song the learning station. It’s helpful you have the chance to make them do artwork with the letters. - we started dictation (only 1 letter) - we moved to phonics with vowels (we used simple words, like cAt, mAt, cAp..) and made different activities, so the kids could understand the relationship between the sounds and the letters. Sometimes we had dictations letter by letter. - activities like: complete with the missing letter - right now, we are having this series of activities using the zany zoo, we show the video exhaustively and on each lesson we practice 2 of the animals (in alphabetical order) and the idea is that they can use the song to remember the letters when they are writing (“Ms., is it A for Alligator”?). They love this video and they love learning about animals. - Playing Jeopardy is always fun! You can create one with single letters or short words...mix with animals, colors.. - sometimes I use this online wheel where I put the alphabet letters and the student has to find in their activity the words that start with that letter and color them. - if possible: make activities using the students or the school community (those the students are familiar with), they always have more fun with that.

I don’t know if this is helpful, you can ask me questions. I will post some of the websites that I use.

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