ABCmouse.com’s Award-Winning Reading Games to Learn Letter Sounds

Best of all, our letter sound activities span the entire range of early reading. From the beginning of preschool through kindergarten, you can rely on ABCmouse helps your child learn the fundamentals of alphabet letter sounds.

Our games are available on Mac, PC, Android, iOS, and Amazon-powered devices so that your child can access ABCmouse wherever he or she goes.

ABCmouse.com has also won several important awards, including: • Parents’ Choice Gold Award • Mom’s Choice Awards Gold • Teachers’ Choice Award

And while awards are nice, the true measure of success is how many children using ABCmouse are learning and growing, so we asked the people who know best: their parents.

In a study surveying more than five thousand parents who use ABCmouse with their children, 85 percent of those parents reported a significant positive impact on their child’s learning.

All the letters of the alphabet represent sounds. Connecting letters to their most common sounds, also known as letter-sound correspondence, is a foundational part of early literacy.

Children begin with identifying and naming letters and then move on to associating those letters with sounds.

The reason it’s so important to teach letter sounds for kids is that it helps emergent readers understand how printed text relates to spoken language.

Children who make these connections may then move on to decoding, or sounding out, words. These are the gradual steps toward fluent reading.

Applying knowledge of letter sounds to understand printed words is an important part of decoding, which is a key component to early literacy development.

ABCmouse can help develop your child’s oral vocabulary through interactive games and animations, read-aloud stories, and more. Through these activities, your child can practice saying and hearing letter sounds, which can help him or her become a stronger reader.

The ability to sequence sounds and separate sounds in spoken words enables children to apply letter-sound connections as they sound out printed words.

ABCmouse’s games and activities are designed to support phonological awareness skills to help young children begin to read text.

Learning to recognize the letters of the alphabet is one of the earliest and most essential steps on the road to reading. ABCmouse allows them to practice associating alphabet letters with their sounds.

This foundation is designed to instill confidence in decoding printed words. When they come to an unknown word, children can practice identifying the letters and their sounds, and then blend the sounds to read the word.

ABCmouse includes a variety of games, songs, puzzles, and other activities that help children practice recognition of every letter of the alphabet, including the different sounds of these letters, setting that critical foundation for later literacy learning.

ABCmouse creates a fun environment where your child will be introduced to the idea that words can have families, too.

Understanding word families is an important part of early literacy because word families help children see that words are made up of patterns of letters that represent sounds. Children can practice making the visual connection that words that sound alike at the end can look alike at the end too.

ABCmouse has books and games to help your child learn and practice reading word families in fun, engaging ways.

Sight word recognition is important because sight words show up frequently in children’s early reading materials. Recognizing some words in a new book helps to build a child’s reading confidence.

ABCmouse’s preschool and elementary curriculum games focus on developing letter sounds, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and familiarity with the most common sight words.

Many children engage with texts on digital devices, but they still need to know concepts of print, or how print works.

One important concept of print is that letters are printed symbols that make up words and that those printed letters stand for sounds.

ABCmouse is an appropriate first letter sounds app because it combines learning with fun games that can help stimulate your child’s mind.

To help children develop reading skills through letter sounds, ABCmouse offers a wide variety of games online: • Letter Sound Games • Letter Sound Puzzles • Read-Aloud Stories • Letter Sound Books • Letter Sound Paintings

Letter sounds can be overwhelming at first, so pronouncing each letter’s sound while pointing to the letter is a great way for children to begin to see the connection. As your pre-K child continues to interact with letters and sounds, you can provide additional practice.

For example, say a word and ask your child to say a different word that begins with the same sound. Then have your child name the letter that spells that sound.

Letter sounds for kindergarten can begin to incorporate ABCmouse activities that focus on letter sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of words.

Other activities about word families can support your child in recognizing and reading letter combinations.

Reading aloud beginner-level books also demonstrates the transition from pre-K to Kindergarten.