Alphabet Book Spelling Activities

Thursday, I was working with a student teacher helping a small group of her students with the alphabet. The problem was the students couldn’t associate letters of the alphabet with words. Initial Phonics instruction involves children learning the alphabet. Many learn the alphabet by rote or using an alphabet song. The next step is to associate the letter they hear with the written letter. Eventually they have to match the initial sounds of words to specific letters. The student teacher knew what they children needed but the textbook and its associated workbook didn’t actively engage students in a constructivist way. Instead of the book and the accompanying workbook, I showed the students an interactive book-making activity on the computer.


The book-making activity was much more fun and engaging than the textbook and workbook. Each activity focused on a single letter, reducing the children’s frustration level. For each level, children could select pictures beginning with the letter from a built-in library of clipart. For each picture they selected they could insert a text caption. They could move everything around, get the page they way they liked it, and print it out. Now they were ready for some more letters!

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