The most important word for any child is his or her own name.

For many children, their names are the first words they learn to read and write.

Research has shown that letter recognition and letter-sound correspondences are most effectively remembered when they are in the context of words that are important to to a child, such as his or her name.

Here we are engaged in activities that develop alphabetic knowledge while learning how to write our name as we do at school (upper-case letter followed by lower-case ones).[metaslider id=3328]