Letters

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A letter is only a shape until it connects to a sound, a word and a picture. The cards below give that connection something to hold on to, and they show how far through the alphabet you have already come.

A B C letter blocks

Three blocks in a row in red, blue and yellow with the white letters A, B and C.

Pastel A B C letters

The letters A, B and C side by side in light blue, light green and orange.

A smiling boy in a red t-shirt sits at a light blue table arranging coloured letters A, B and C in a row.

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Boy arranging letters on the table

A smiling boy in a red t-shirt sits at a light blue table arranging coloured letters A, B and C in a row.

Open book with A B C

An open book with beige covers showing the letters A, B and C in blue, green and yellow.

Green book open with A B C

An open book with green covers showing the letters A, B and C in blue, red and yellow.

Bold A B C letters

The letters A, B and C in a bold style in red, blue and green.

A smiling girl with a ponytail sits at a table writing letters in an open book, beside coloured blocks.

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Girl writing letters in a book

A smiling girl with a ponytail sits at a table writing letters in an open book, beside coloured blocks.

A smiling child with long hair holds up an open book showing the letters A, B and C in red, blue and green.

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Child holding up a letter book

A smiling child with long hair holds up an open book showing the letters A, B and C in red, blue and green.

About this visual support

To a child who has not yet cracked the code, a letter is a mark without content. The letter A means nothing until it links up with a sound, with the picture of an apple and with the first letter of their own name. While that link is missing, every practice session feels like a jump into the dark, and the most common question is not how to write A but how many letters are left.

Visual support works on both problems at once. One picture per letter gives the symbol a hook in the real world, and cards laid out on the table make the quantity visible: five cards are five, not endless. Children who get to move each finished letter into its own pile often last a couple of minutes longer than they expected.

One practical move is to work with three letters at a time and always include one the child already knows, so the session starts with a win. In Routined you can build the letters into a routine of their own with a timer and tick-off, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.