I remember when my daughter came home from her first day of Kindergarten. She was so excited because her teacher had made a song using all the letters she knew! Of course it was the ABC song, but in our house we had never sung it.
My daughter learned her letters phonetically. I did not stress the “names” of the letters, just the sounds they made. This approach was reinforced in her Montessori school. Consequently, she was reading when she was 3 years old and could sound out almost any word we threw at her.
My school board doesn’t teach phonetically, but I still try to throw it in with my students. How were you taught the alphabet? How are you teaching your children?
Here is an activity that can be used either way. 🙂