How did the authors and editors of the Pre-K program decide on the order for teaching the letters of the alphabet?
First, it seems important to point out that there is no established body of research to guide the order in which young children are introduced to the letters of the alphabet. A fairly recently published article addresses the order in which children learn the letters of the alphabet; it is entitled, “An investigation of four hypotheses concerning the order by which 4-year-old children learn alphabet letters” by Laura Justice and her colleagues; it appears in volume 21 of Early Childhood Research Quarterly (pp. 374–389). That article reviews previous research and reports on the results of a new research study. The results indicate that the only factor that was meaningfully significant was that children were most likely to learn, first, those letters which were part of their own names—a finding that virtually all experienced early childhood teachers could have predicted. Otherwise, the authors of the research report concluded, “the order of letter learning is highly variable among childre
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