What Is the Order of Colors, Shapes, and Letters in the Preschool Grade Band?

We currently provide a year view of the Preschool Order of Colors, Shapes, and Letters. The year view is listed below. The orders of these letters are the same each year.

Letter order was chosen using the following research and documentation:

 Research conducted by Light and McNaughton concerning sequence of letter-sound correspondence was used to form the foundation of the letter order. Letters that occur more frequently in written words are introduced first and letters with similar auditory or visual characteristics are placed in separate units. Short vowels are introduced first because they occur more frequently in simple decodable words. Retrieved May 10, 2021, from https://aacliteracy.psu.edu/index.php/page/show/id/6/

 Letter order was also influenced by developmental norms in handwriting. Each letter set includes a minimum of two early developmentally mastered letters. Retrieved July 18, 2013, from http://www.hwtears.com/hwt/why-it-works/teaching-order

 Developmental norms for acquiring phonemes were also considered when ordering letter sets. Templin, 1957; Wellman et al 1931)

2022-2023

Month	Topic	Colors	Shapes
September	Meet My Friends and Family (Government)	Yellow and Red	Circle
October	The Changing Tree (Life Science)	Green and Orange	Square
November	Space (Earth and Space Science)	Blue and Gray	Triangle
January	Make Believe - Little Red Hen (Approaches to Learning)	Red and Brown	Rectangle
February	Dental Health (Health)	Pink and White	Square
March	Lights and Sounds: They are All Around (Physical Science)	Black and Purple	Circle
April	Community Helpers (Economics)	Yellow and Blue	Rectangle
May	Down on the Farm (Life Science)	Red and Green	Square
These are the intended order of introduction.

Month	Vowel	Consonant
September	short a	m, p, t
October	short o	c, d, n
November	short u	g, h, s
January	short i	f, b, l
February	short e	k, r, w
March	long a	v, x, y
April	long o	j, q, z
May	short a	c, h, p