Children's knowledge of letter names and shapes is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read. Knowing letter names is strongly related to children's ability to remember the forms of written words and their ability to treat words as sequences of letters. This article explains this principle and gives guidelines for instruction.

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k.rf.2.2 recognize that written words are made up of sequences of letters., reading rockets: the alphabetic principle, alphabetic principle

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RF.K.1.b RF.K.1.c