The Letter Dd

The English alphabet consists of 26 letters, each with an upper and lower-case form. The alphabet has 5 vowels, 19 consonants and 2 letters that can serve as consonants or vowels (W and Y).

The letter D is the fourth letter of the English alphabet. This scene will introduce students to the phoneme and the grapheme of D and encourage identification of the items within the scene environment that begin with D.

# Objectives:

1: To be able to recognise the upper and lower-case grapheme of the letter D.{.info}

2: To identify objects that begin with the letter D.{.info}

3: To practice speaking skills by using the phoneme of D.{.info}


# The Letter D{.objective .objective1}

Students can explore the scene and look for the large upper and lower-case letter D. Discuss how they look different. There are upper and lower-case letters hidden around the scene for students to find. Encourage them to pick them up and sort the upper- and lower-case letters. There are three lower-case and three upper-case D letters to find.

Students can investigate the environment and find items that begin with D. Encourage them to say the name of the objects as they find them. Remind them that the letter D can make a short sound.


The following objects are included in the scene:

- Dice

- Doughnuts

- Drum

- Dinosaur

- Dynamite

- Diver

- Duck

- Digger

- Doctor Dog

- Domino

- Diamond

- Daffodil

- Dictionary

- Doll

- Desert

- Dragon

- Dolphin


Students can practice their speaking skills by saying the name of the objects beginning with the letter D. Encourage them to think of any other words that contain a /d/ sound that are not included in the scene.