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Alphabet and letter names

Name the letters of the alphabet in order.

Taught in Primary 1 in Nigeria (NERDC), Year 1 in United Kingdom (National Curriculum), Grade 1 in Canada (Ontario).

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Nigeria (NERDC)

Primary 1

Strand
Reading: Phonics and Word Recognition
Called
Alphabet and letter names
How it's taught
Letter sounds and blending with choral repetition and reading cards; oral English support since English is often a second language.
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United Kingdom (National Curriculum)

Year 1

Strand
Word Reading
Called
Alphabet and letter names
How it's taught
Systematic synthetic phonics (letters-and-sounds progression); daily blending and segmenting; Year 1 phonics screening check.
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Canada (Ontario)

Grade 1

Strand
Foundations of Language: Word Reading
Called
Alphabet and letter names
How it's taught
Explicit, systematic phonics under the 2023 Language curriculum: grapheme–phoneme correspondences, blending, and word-level decoding.
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