Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons, Free Homeschool Curriculum, Full PDF Download Link, Flip-Through
- Hannah Ward
- Jan 16
- 5 min read
Updated: Jan 16
Teaching your child the alphabet is an essential step in their learning journey. It is one of the things that your child needs to master before learning how to read. Some children learn the alphabet naturally through play and exploring the world around them. Other children need a bit more help - this is natural and nothing to worry about, but parents can sometimes feel lost on the best way to help their kids.
That's why I made Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons! It's a fun, gentle, and minimalist approach to parent-directed alphabet learning. The process is simple and only takes a few minutes daily:
Sing the alphabet song.
Complete two worksheets.
Read a book of your choice aloud.
Complete a fun play-based activity of your choice together.
That's really all it takes!
What is Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons?
Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons is a simple parent guide for teaching children the alphabet. It provides you with 120 worksheets that guide you through the process of teaching your child the alphabet in a way that will stick. It was specifically designed for children that are struggling to learn the alphabet environmentally and may have Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD, or vision difficulties.
It was professionally designed by Hannah Ward, a mother and an English teacher who has taught students from preschool to the university level. She's a TESOL International Association certified English instructor who holds an M.Ed. in Education Technology and Instructional Design where she dual specialized as an adult and K-12 learning experience designer, and an M.S. in Management and Leadership with a focus on global leadership education.
How do you use Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons?
Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons is simple for parents and kids. There are only a few steps each day to complete!
Step 1: Sing the Alphabet Song
Each lesson day is started with singing The Alphabet Song while pointing to an alphabet chart. If you purchase the paperback version of the book, I included a chart on the back cover to keep things simple!
Step 2: Complete two worksheets daily.
Two simple worksheets are completed daily. They are designed with particular difficulties in learning the alphabet in mind. There are common areas where many children get stuck in the alphabet learning process. These areas are honed-in on in these worksheets.
Step 3: Read a book of your choice aloud.
The next step is to read a book of your choice aloud. This is an absolutely essential step in the process. Reading together builds a love for books, familiarity with how reading works, and building backgrounding knowledge that is key for learning to read. Everything in Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons prepares your child to be a strong early reader. Once they have learned the alphabet and reached the other reading readiness signs your child will be able to learn how to read with How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons. You can find the reading readiness signs here:
Step 4: Complete a hands-on alphabet learning activity.
Research has told us time and time again that early learning students learn well through hands-on activities, plus it's fun! The instructions at the beginning of the book give you multiple options for hands-on activities to complete with your child to help them remember the letter they learned that day. Here is an example of one of the activities from the book!
That's all it takes each day! By the end of 60 days your child will be well on their way to starting reading lessons.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Question: Does this curriculum work for students with Dyslexia, Autism, or ADHD?
YES. Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons was specifically designed with all of the strongest recommended accommodations for student with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD, and vision difficulties already built into the curriculum. This is because these accommodations harm no students in their learning journey and are essential for some students. We have had many success stories from families whose children have Dyslexia, Autism, and/or ADHD that no other program worked with that are now flying in their early reading journey after working through Teach Your Child the Alphabet in 60 Lessons.
Question: Why do you give the lessons away for free?
Foundational learning is far too important to put behind a paywall. This is my fulltime job and people that pay for my curriculum mean the world to me, but I work with families all over the world and I know not everyone can pay yet desperately want to teach their kids. All children deserve the best learning materials no matter what their family's financial means are. I provide free curriculum and support to all families as a personal life mission.
Question: I'm not a teacher. Can I do this?
You are your child's first, best, and most important teacher. You've already taught them so many things. You can teach them this too. Please don't doubt yourself. I know that you can do this. If you can read, you can teach your child how to read.
Can I see a flip-through of the curriculum?
Sure! This flip-through shows the full PDF version of the curriculum that has been printed and coil-bound. It gives you an idea of the length of the lessons and the variety that you'll see in the curriculum.
What are the differences between the versions of the curriculum?
First of all, you're getting the same curriculum no matter which version you go with. The only difference is the packaging.
You can download each set of daily lessons and parent instructions bundled together one-by-one here at this website in a compressed PDF form. I compressed them and put them into smaller download sizes so that they could be stored easily on the website and could be accessible to download for families in areas with internet difficulties. I love giving books away in Little Free Libraries here locally and if I had the means to do that for everyone in the world with physical books - I would! As it stands, this is the best way I've found to make sure this curriculum can get out to as many families that need it as possible.
Happy learning,
Hannah Ward