The New York State Early Learning Guidelines were created as a reference guide by the Advisory Council Early Childhood Education (ECAC) for those responsible for the care and education of young children. These guidelines can help early childhood professionals learn and develop skills to support children's growth and development. The guideline focuses on five areas: physical well-being, motor health and development, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, cognition and general knowledge, language, communication and literacy. Each of these areas is separated by a milestone that children typically achieve by a certain age. The three age groups are infancy (birth to 18 months), early childhood (18 months to 3 years), and preschool (3 to 5 years). These guidelines can help teachers help children reach important milestones, but at the same time, without rushing their development. There are strategies that can help teachers through the process. The guideline I chose is Reading: Domain V Alphabetic Principles. Language, Communication, and Literacy Domain V focuses on children's ability to communicate how they feel and what their feelings are. thoughts. There are indicators listed for children and strategies for early childhood professionals to support development and learning. As a teacher, I would focus on one letter per week. I would have it as part of my daily lesson plan. The first indicator of the alphabetic principle is that children should be able to recite all the letters of the alphabet. One way to teach children the alphabet is to sing the alphabet song. Children hear this song for the first time when they are babies. From the beginning of early childhood, we already begin to teach children letters. I would use the song as the middle part of a sheet of paper with classmates whose name is with "D" and objects in the classroom. I can prepare a box with objects that start with “D”. I can incorporate the letter into other activities throughout the week. For arts and crafts, I can have them each color a picture of a dog and I can hang it on a weekly activity board. For math, we can use blocks to create the letter “D”. They can use the manipulatives to form the shape of the letter to show that they can identify the letter. I would incorporate the letter of the week into different daily activities, not the same one every day, because I don't want them to lose interest in the letter. The ECAC suggests using alphabet puzzles to encourage learning. This is a great idea because children love playing with puzzles. Alphabet puzzles can help them learn the alphabet in order, the shapes of each letter and each letter has an individual name..