I used to teach Kindergarten, but we do alphabetical order. When teaching them to write them, in K, the kids will do them out of order, but I'm much less concerned with good handwriting at this stage.
We read alphabet books, sing alphabet songs, it makes sense to do them right in order for the large group, for me. We do one letter focus each week, but we also then talk about different letters all throughout the year in small groups.
For the intervention students who came to K with no letter recognition, we would get out an alphabet book with the uppercase letter, lowercase letter and a picture using the letter sound on each page. Kids would trace each one with their finger and say the name of the letter (A, a, aaaahh, apple). Five minutes/day they'd have most of them within a month.

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