Letter Sounds Before Letter Names. Twice recently teachers have asked this question. Most research agrees that teaching the sound/letter links in alphabetical order is of little help when teaching children to read.
Letter recognition is the first skill a child needs to learn before beginning the task of learning decoding skills and then word recognition. Why teaching letter names doesn't teach children to read. The studies show this avoids confusion when the sounds are taught, since they will know that the letter names are, in fact, names.
My experience shows that looking at the words from the letter sounds perspective and developing phonological awareness skill in your child early in life has its benefits.
Learn letters knowing the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent puts a child on the road to reading. Start by teaching the sounds of the letters, not their names. The studies show this avoids confusion when the sounds are taught, since they will know that the letter names are, in fact, names. Secondly, pair each of the 26 phonetic letter sounds with a common object to emphasize the beginning sound of that word.