Jumbo Fun With the Alphabet: Grades Prek-1 - Softcover

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596739428 ISBN 13: 9781596739420

Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Help early learners develop essential reading readiness skills while they learn their ABCs.

The revised edition of Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet is your ultimate resource for teaching letter names and sounds! Over 200 pages of engaging activities help students see, hear, say, and write the 26 letters of the alphabet while they develop the important reading readiness skills of alphabetic awareness, print awareness, phonemic awareness, and visual discrimination. Along with a new look and revised activities, you'll also enjoy all-new teacher pages that make it easier than ever to provide students with the essential alphabet practice they need for success.

You'll love Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet because it:

-comes with over 200 pages of curriculum-correlated alphabet activities. From 3-D arts & crafts projects to reproducible trace and write pages, there are a variety of activities to help your students see, hear, say, and write all of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
-develops the four basic readiness skills students need before beginning formal reading. Activities are thoughtfully designed and consistently repeated to help students master alphabetic awareness, print awareness, phonemic awareness, and visual discrimination.
-contains activities that help students exercise fine motor skills as they learn their ABCs. Students are asked to draw, trace, write, color, cut, fold, and glue as they learn letter names and sounds. Activities also provide extra practice in listening and following directions.
-features brand-new teacher pages that help you introduce letters with ease. Teacher pages offer simple suggestions to help you introduce students to each letter of the alphabet and implement each activity.
-can be used with Alphabet Puppets for comprehensive and creative alphabet practice! Both books can be used separately, but when used together, the fun, full-color puppets in Alphabet Puppets, along with the reproducible activities and practice in Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet, create a powerful, comprehensive resource to help students develop important reading readiness skills.
-is correlated to state standards.

Unit at a Glance:
Activities incorporate the four language domains to engage students in the instruction and practice of each letter of the alphabet.
Hear It!
Students practice identifying letters and hearing them in spoken words. After a short discussion, a reproducible worksheet is provided that asks students to recognize and identify the sounds of the new letters.
Draw It!
Students are given step-by-step directions to draw objects or animals that start with the letters they're practicing. Drawings use simple shapes to create the images and give students opportunities to add their own creative details
Write It!
Students practice tracing and printing uppercase and lowercase letters. Worksheets are provided for both traditional and modern script and model the correct way to write each letter. There's also a fun dot-to-do activity to reinforce coordination and number skills.
Read It!
Each letter has a four-page fold-up book that provides students with short stories they can read on their own in class or at home. Stories help students practice a variety of readiness skills, such as:
- Distinguishing letters from words.
- Locating a printed word on a page.
- Matching print to speech.
- Moving from top to bottom and left to right on a printed page.
Make It!
A fun art project complete with pictorial directions engages students as they put together their own alphabet-inspired creation.
Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet skills and standards:
The instruction in Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet focuses on the four basic readiness skills that all students need to master before moving on to a formal reading program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1596739428
• ISBN 13: 9781596739420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224