Magnetic Letters
Learning English for a child has several parts and includes learning letters and words and what they look like but also how to say them and how to spell them: these three distinctive skills though will not always come to a child at the same time and some teaching methods that try to teach all at once can hold a child back. A child will struggle to write a word or a letter if they haven’t yet learnt what it looks like also reading a word may come as a skill before writing it.
As a child starts to understand what a word looks like they may still be stopped from writing it by an inability to write letters together as well as they can recognize them when put together already. What magnetic letters allow a child to do is to learn what letters look like and how they can form words without being held back by having to write them each time and having to correct their mistakes. A child can move around the letters of a word to make new words and to assemble words they have seen or know. Another way that children can learn about the way letters make words is to give them a word and allow them to take it apart letter by letter and then put the magnetic letters together again to reform the word.