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I am teaching D'Nealian but do not have any books or resources so I am just using what I find online. I was wondering if there is a specific recommended order in which to teach the letters? Should I go A-Z, or most common letters first (e,s,t, etc) or should I go with the easiest ones first and progress from there?
Grace/IL I've never seen a prescribed order for teaching letters but as a first grade teacher I started with 'c'. You can use a clock face and have the child trace counter-clockwise from 2 all the way around to 4. Then I'd teach a, d, g, o, q -- simply because they all involve the same beginning motion as c. I'd also teach the basic sound they represent at ...See More
Dec 28, 2010


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