Let's Begin with the Letter People®

Let’s Begin with the Letter People^® was found to have no discernible effects on oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, or math.

Let’s Begin with the Letter People^® is an early education curriculum that uses 26 thematic units to develop children’s language and early literacy skills. A major focus is phonological awareness, including rhyming, word play, alliteration, and segmentation. Children are encouraged to learn as individuals, in small groups, and in a whole-class environment. Teacher resource books and a set of classroom books and other program materials are available as a program kit.

Two studies of Let’s Begin with the Letter People^® meet What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards and no studies meet WWC evidence standards with reservations. The two studies include children in 49 classrooms in 25 preschools in Houston, Texas, and southeastern New York State.

Based on these two studies, the WWC considers the extent of evidence for Let’s Begin with the Letter People^® to be medium to large for oral language and print knowledge and small for phonological processing and math. No studies that meet WWC evidence standards with or without reservations examined the effectiveness of Let’s Begin with the Letter People^® in the early reading and writing or cognition domains.