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Create an Alphabet Book

 

            Today's Snack: Better have an ABC snack today - an apple, a banana, and some citrus juice!

 

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Supplies:

26 pieces of paper | colored markers or colored pencils

Stapler or three-hole punch and three-ring binder

 

 

A great way to give your child phonics skill is to get the alphabet deeply and strongly into your child's brain and heart.

 

Phonics is a basic reading skill that translates the sounds that alphabet letters make into the written symbols for them on a page. The alphabet letters all have double identities - how they sound when they are spoken aloud, and how they look when they are printed on paper.

 

An independent reader is able to link those two identities quicker than the blink of an eye. So the more you can do to strengthen phonics skills, the better off your child will be.

 

A great way to do that is to help your child make an alphabet book!

 

1.      Take 26 pieces of paper - blank white, colored construction, colored cardstock - whatever you'd like.

 

2.      Write one letter from the alphabet on each. It can be the capital letter, or the capital and lower-case version together.

 

3.      Challenge your child to draw pictures of things beginning with each letter. Hint: use a search engine if you get stumped in finding an animal that starts with certain letters. Example: a "xerus" (pronounced "zeer uss") is an African ground squirrel.

 

4.      Encourage her to ask you first, if she has selected the right letter, since the sounds that the letters make when spoken aloud sometimes aren't spelling that way. For example, "orangutan" sounds like it starts with the short vowel sound of an "e" or a "u." This exercise is a great way to work with your child on the proper pronunciation of words, too!

 

5.      When the child is finished and has made at least one drawing per letter, bind it together with a stapler or use a three-hole punch to put it into a three-ring binder. Keep the alphabet book front and center in your home for a while, and then display prominently in the child's room.

 

By Susan Darst Williams • www.AfterSchoolTreats.com • Reading © 2012

 

 

 

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