ALT When learning their ABCs, children who used whole body movements to mimic the letters of the alphabet—slithering like a snake as they hissed the “sss” sound, for example—improved their recall of letter-sound pairings and doubled their ability to recognize hard-to-learn sounds, such as the difference between the sounds that c makes in cat and sauce, compared to kids who wrote and spoke letter-sound pairings at their desks. Consider integrating whole body movement into the learning of ABCs, the research suggests. Source: Damsgaard et al., 2022