Creating a text-rich environment plays a huge role in helping preschoolers recognize the letters of the alphabet and develop important pre-reading skills. Many parents and preschool teachers struggle to come up with ideas to include text in their daily environment. Preschoolers can help to create an alphabet wall that changes and grows as preschoolers learn more about each letter of the alphabet.

What You Need

Type all the letters of the alphabet using a clear block font that is easy for preschoolers to read. Make each letter of the alphabet large enough that it fills an entire 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper. Print each letter on its own piece of paper and have the preschoolers help you hang the letters of the alphabet on the wall.

You can adjust the shape of your alphabet wall to the wall space that you have available. The letters of the alphabet can either be posted on the wall in one continuous line or in a block formation that ends after 5-7 letters and continues on the next line. The main idea with an alphabet wall is to help preschoolers to recognize the letters of the alphabet. A block formation keeps the alphabet wall in one location and is easier for preschoolers to work on.

The alphabet wall is an ongoing project. As the preschoolers do projects related to a letter of the alphabet, have them take down the paper with that letter from the alphabet wall and work together to color and decorate it. Cut pictures out from old magazines of objects that start with that letter and help preschoolers glue the pictures to the letter. Find stickers of things that start with the letter the preschoolers are working on and use them to decorate the letter page. When the letter is complete, place it back in it’s location on the alphabet wall.

By the end of the preschool year, preschoolers will have a alphabet masterpiece that shows all the letters and sounds that they have learned throughout the year.