My First Alphabet Phonics: Learn to Handwriting and Tracing the Letters – Endless joy for Kids by Moojoy

My First Alphabet Phonics teaches users to write letters. From the app’s main screen, users first have to decide if they wish to write upper or lower case letters by clicking on the corresponding “Play” button. Next, the app loads a letter, says the letter’s name, and models how to write it. The app then guides users in writing the letter. Once successfully written, the app shows users a word and image that begin with the letter that was written. At this point, users can automatically progress to the next letter in the alphabet or they can tap on a different letter to practice with it. To return to the main screen at any time, users can tap the “Home” button.

Instructional Ideas

1. To begin teaching students how to write letters, teachers can connect their device to a projector and demonstrate to students how this app functions. Next, teachers can have students launch this app and begin practicing writing letters with it. As they do, teachers can make sweeps of the room to provide students support, if needed.
2. Once students feel competent writing letters using this app, teachers can transition them to paper-and-pencil practice for letters writing.
3. After students write a letter correctly in this app and see a word that begins with the letter they wrote, teachers can ask students if they know another word that begins with the same letter. If they do, students with the support of their teacher can write the letter on the board. Teachers can turn this activity into a class challenge by seeing if the class can come up with a word for each letter of the alphabet.