Research shows that learning letter names and letter sounds go hand in hand. Knowing letter names can help children remember letter sounds, especially when the sound is part of the name (like /b/ in B or /f/ in F).
If children can use letter names to figure out their sounds, they have fewer sounds left to learn—just the ones that don’t match their names, like the short vowels, the letters H, W, and Y, or letters like C in cat and G in gate.
