Alphabetical order

Let’s learn

Core knowledge: Alphabetical order compares letters from left to right until the first difference is found.

Order words accurately, including words with shared beginnings.

See it

Order plant, plane, planet, plank: compare p-l-a first; plane comes before planet because a shorter complete word precedes its extension, then plank, then plant by k before t.

Try it together

Write shared letter columns for four similar words and circle the first differing letter.

Now you try

1. Order: brake, branch, brave, brand. 2. Which comes first: form or formal? 3. What word lies alphabetically between coast and coat: coarse or coal?