Letter Hunt • ¡Encuentra las letras!
This activity was created by Karina Torres, a Kindergarten Dual Language teacher in Austin, TX, inspired by our album Canta las Letras. She gave us permission to share it with you! She posts more fun strategies for working with bilingual children on her Instagram – @dosmundosduallanguage.
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Working on Letter Knowledge at Home
Letter mastery requires a LOT of practice but is essential while developing pre-reading skills.
This activity will have children up and moving throughout your house, hunting for letters and/or their sound!
Practicing a second language at home? Use the sentence stems for hunting new letters!
Materials
- colored construction paper or post-its
- marker
- tape
Find it! ¡Encuéntrala!
Ages 3-6
Prep: Before playing, cut your construction paper in half or fourths (you can also use post-its) and write a single letter on each piece.
Tape the letters all around your house in random order. Walls, fridge, doors, under tables, etc. Make it fun!
Sit back, and get ready to call out some letters!
Letter Recognition
The object of this game is for your child to hunt for and “tag” the correct letter of the alphabet that has been called out.
Say: Where is the letter…?
En Español: ¿Dónde está la letra…?
Good job! ¡Muy bien! After the child finds the correct letter, call out a new one!
Lots of energy?
Ask them to jump, twirl or run to the next letter.
En Español: Salta a la letra… Da vueltas a la letra… Corre a la letra…
Switch it up!
Don’t forget about lowercase letters!
Letter-Sound Knowledge
Has your child mastered letter names?
Try letter sounds! Call out the sound of a letter for your child to find and repeat game.
Say: What letter makes the sound…?
En Español: ¿Cuál letra suena…?
Need a challenge?
Can your child identify the initial sound of a word?
Call out a word and have your child find the first letter of that word.
Working on Spanish vocabulary at home? Use the sentence:
¿Con qué letra empieza _______? (insert word from Canta las Letras)
Already spelling? Call out easy words for children to run to and spell.
Say: Find the letters in CAT.
En Español: Encuentra las letras de GATO.
More! ¡Más!
Play a song from Canta las Letras and have your child hunt for the letter while listening to its song!
Or describe how the letter is formed, and have children hunt for the correct letter to work on visual representation.
Say: A tall line with two circles.
En Español: Una línea alta con dos burbujas.
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