The Early Childhood Education Network’s Literacy Center provides young students with online learning activities in four languages. The Literacy Center provides tutorials and games in English, Spanish, German, and French. The tutorials and games are designed to teach students the alphabet, writing the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, phonics, and basic spelling.

Each section begins with a tutorial before moving on to ask students to apply their new knowledge to an activity. For example, in the alphabet section students first hear and see each letter before being asked to form the letters. See the screen captures below for a demonstration of the sequence.

Alphabet activity 1.

Alphabet activity 2 – Student constructs letter.

Applications for Education
In addition to the online learning activities for students, The Early Childhood Education Network’s Literacy Center in collaboration with Read Today offers hundreds of free printable resources for teaching early literacy skills.