At preschool age, the child may begin to have the ability to learn vowels. It is a way of integrating your child into what will be part of his future vocabulary and with that he will begin to recognize them, pronounce them and discriminate from the other letters.
Not a must-have skill for their learning at this age, because when they enter the infantile course it will be one of the activities that will begin within their learning development. But that we get ahead is not a bad thing, because it can help them to integrate much better in society.
How to teach vowels to children?
For many parents may seem very hasty start teaching children at a fairly early age. Nothing happens because it is hasty, but if the child is trained to be receptive it can help him to enhance part of the their neurodevelopment and to generate communication and expression links.
Teach a child something new always it has to go according to your concerns and among them the best thing to do is to associate the game or activities that motivate it. To begin with, the first thing that can be offered is the association of sounds and images.
His first vowels they may look like strange figures or a kind of squiggle they have to start associating them with sounds. Imagine that it may seem difficult, but they actually have great abilities at that age. Surely they want to enhance this ability and create challenges, without forgetting that in a creative and fun way.
How to start drawing the vowels?
First you have to make a presentation of the vowels. You can make or buy cards with vowel representations and associated drawings, in this case if we start with the letter "a" it can be accompanied by the image of a spider. Here we can see that it begins with said vowel and contains the same vowels between the words. There are fun games that are specialized for learning vowels, and even for older children to complete their knowledge of consonants.
Tracing the letters is also a lot of fun. You can start to draw on sheets where they will try to follow the correct line and direction. The blackboard game works quite well and the kids love it. They can be white boards or chalk boards, and there is even a kind of blackboard-digital tablet to draw with bright colors. To begin to make the line, they will always start with very large representations. Later, having their fine line skills, movement and strength controlled, can help them to make vowels much more chord at a small size.
The idea of teach children vowels with people's names they like it a lot. You can start with those that are more familiar, write the name and try to indicate which vowels it contains. Your own name can also be very attractive to get your attention and with this game you will have to surround the vowels with the color of your choice. Then you can try simple, everyday words: table, cookie, spoon ...
Youtube also has fun videos to learn vowels. Let's not forget that these reproductions are designed to accompany the learning with songs, colorful graphic representations and with some dance. It is a very happy way and with the mixture of fun that will make the little ones watch the same video over and over again.
If you like to read it is also a good source for learning. There are specialized books with stories created with the vowel itself so that they learn their whole life related to the same vowel. If you want to continue enhancing their learning you can also do playing to be detectives. With simple Letter soup where you can do a visual search on the vowel you want to find and if it can be crossed out. We can do the same with small texts and using the same game.
These are the little games that can be the best way and way to make the little ones already can start with their first letters, in this case with the vowels. You will notice that it is very easy and emotional. If you like to go much further, there are also fun applications to use on tablets such as: «Learn vowels for children from 3 to 5 years old» o "Learn vowels with Mimi."