Why aren the names of the alphabet letters taught with their sounds?
Teaching the names of the alphabet letters first is confusing and non-productive. We don’t talk, read or spell by saying and thinking names of letters.In the beginning this method teaches only the sound sequences of the letters. The names of the alphabet letters are not important at this time, but the sounds are. You can delay teaching the letter names. This lowers the learning load for the students and speeds them on their way to reading.Strange as it may seem, children who enter school without having learned the names of the letters or capital letter formation learn these sound/symbol relationships more easily. They have nothing to unlearn.
