Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
Our kindergarten teachers here recommend teaching out of order.
Uppercase and lowercase at the same time.
Out of order learning is suppose to help with better retention.
No idea if that's true or not.
I just blend letter learning into our regular day and don't have a specific curriculum for letter learning.
When I taught my daughter her alphabet, I taught her in order and as soon as she learned them that way, I began teaching out of order. Random letters. She mastered that way really quick. I noticed children who learn it by song seem to always skip the letters M N. So that was my reasoning for teaching my daughter 2 ways. It worked really well. A lot of children don't know their alphabet outside of the actual song. I truly believe the out of order way helps them retain.
