🔤 Random Letter Generator: Pick a Letter of the Alphabet

How to use it

1. 1. Choose how letters look

   Pick capital letters, small letters or both together. Younger children often need to see the capital and the small letter side by side.

2. 2. Choose which letters

   Use All letters for the whole alphabet, or switch to Vowels only or Consonants only when you are practising one group of sounds.

3. 3. Decide about repeats

   Tick No repeats until every letter has come up to work through the alphabet once. When the last letter is used, the list begins again.

4. 4. Pick a letter

   Press Pick a letter. The letter fills the screen, and the letters you have already used are listed underneath. Start again clears the list.

Ideas for class and home

• Letter of the day

  Pick a letter to start a phonics lesson, then ask for words that begin with it, objects in the room that start with it, or names of friends.

• Category games

  Pick a letter and name an animal, a food and a country that start with it. Play it as a quick game while waiting in line.

• Alphabet scavenger hunt

  Pick a letter and send the children to find something at home or in the garden whose name starts with it. No repeats makes sure each letter gets a turn.

• Spelling and writing starters

  Use the letter as the first letter of a sentence, a poem line or a spelling challenge. Vowels only suits short vowel sound practice.