I'm trying to teach Non-English kids the alphabet. What is a good list of words starting with A-Z? [closed]

Solution 1:

This is a community-edited answer that anyone with more than 100 reps can improve. The sublist for each letter is sorted alphabetically, with the word used by the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for that letter set in bold. Judge for yourself which word best suits your purposes.

• A — Alpha, Ant, Apple.

• B — Bag, Ball, Banana, Bear, Bee, Berry, Book, Bottle, Boy, Bravo, Bus.

• C — Candy, Car, Cat, Cell Phone, Charlie, Child, Circle, Coffee, Computer, Cup.

• D — Deer, Delta, Dog, Door, Dress, Duck.

• E — Ear, Echo, Egg, Elephant, Elk.

• F — Fan, Fire, Flower, Foot, Fountain, Foxtrot, Frog, Fruit.

• G — Gate, Girl, Glasses, Goat, Golf.

• H — Hand, Head, Hill, Honey, Hotel, House.

• I — Ice, Ice Cream, Igloo, India, Ink, Island.

• J — Jam, Jar, Juice, Juliet.

• K — Key, Kilo, King, Knight, Koala.

• L — Lamb, Lamp, Leaf, Lima, Lip.

• M — Man, Mike, Mill, Moon, Moose, Mountain, Mouse, Mouth.

• N — Net, Night, November, Nurse.

• O — One, Orange, Oscar, Ostrich, Owl.

• P — Papa, Penguin, Pie, Pizza, Plant, Potato.

• Q — Quebec, Queen, Quilt.

• R — Raccoon, Railway, Rain, Road, Romeo, Rope.

• S — Seal, Sierra, Skunk, Smoke, Snake, Snow, Strawberry, Sun.

• T — Tango, Tea, Telephone, Tiger, Tree, Two.

• U — Umbrella, Unicorn, Uniform.

• V — Van, Vase, Victor, Violet.

• W — Water, Whiskey, Window, Witch, Woman.

• X — X-ray, Xylophone.

• Y — Yacht, Yankee, Yard.

• Z — Zebra, Zoo, Zulu.

Solution 2:

The NATO phonetic alphabet was designed for universal understanding and differentiation of letters. While maybe not the ideal pedagogical tool, it is near universal and very often partially known (especially the first few letters).