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Nebraska Department of Education, 2021
For students to be able to read and comprehend, they must first develop phonological awareness, the ability to recognize and manipulate the segments of sound in words. To develop this ability, students must be able to identify the following: individual sounds (phonemes) in words; print letters of the alphabet; and corresponding sounds for each…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Phonological Awareness
Arreguin-Anderson, Maria Guadalupe; Alanis, Iliana; Gonzalez, Irasema Salinas – Science and Children, 2016
The increasing presence of linguistically diverse young children in U.S. public schools has prompted science educators to recognize the need for approaches that are inclusive and sensitive to students' academic needs. The challenge is to design lessons that provide language support while actively engaging children in authentic scientific inquiry.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education, Outdoor Education
Blamey, Katrin; Beauchat, Katherine – Redleaf Press, 2016
Four evidence-based instructional approaches create an essential resource for any early literacy teacher or coach. Improve your teaching practices in all areas of early literacy. Use four proven instructional approaches--standards based, evidenced based, assessment based, and student based--to improve their teaching practice in all areas of early…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Literacy Education, Academic Standards
Goldstein, Howard – Brookes Publishing Company, 2016
When young children struggle with phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge, how can you intervene early and prevent later reading difficulties? Get kids on the "PAth to Literacy" with this highly effective Tier 2 intervention. Developed for children ages 4 to 6 who need help with key early literacy skills, this supplemental…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Intervention, Video Technology, Faculty Development
Phillips, Beth M.; Phelan, Jennifer Levine – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2014
The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). Although the goal was not to create an activity to represent each and every standard and benchmark, most standards are…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Preschool Education, Learning Centers (Classroom), Students with Disabilities
Albert, Elaine – 1986
Intended to help children learn phonics and to learn how to use phonics, this handbook is modeled on the 15th century hornbook. The handbook is divided into three parts: (1) "What Went Wrong?"; (2) "HOW to Teach Someone to Read by Beginning with Basic Phonics"; and (3) "Special Problems." Nineteen references and a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonemic Alphabets, Phonics
Connell, Donna – Academic Therapy, 1983
The history of the alphabet is briefly reviewed to provide background on the controversy about beginning handwriting instruction and the relative difficulty of major instructional methods (Roman capitals, ball-stick manuscript, and chancery cursive). The author suggests that a simplified version of chancery cursive can be used for beginners. (CL)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Elementary Education, History, Teaching Methods
Instructor, 1982
This article suggests 11 projects for prekindergarten and kindergarten children (1) to teach letter recognition; (2) to develop eye-hand coordination; and (3) to help children understand weather; and (4) to provide art and drama activities on Thanksgiving themes. (PP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Learning Activities, Letters (Alphabet), Teaching Methods
Polloway, Edward A.; Polloway, Carolyn H. – Academic Therapy, 1980
A four-step instructional procedure to assist the learning disabled child to distinguish the distinctive features of letters is described. The procedure involves distinguishing the lower case "b" via a fading out technique from its upper case counterpart "B." The letter directionality can be cued so that the "b-d" distinction is readily apparent.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet)
Zitlaw, Jo Ann Bruce; Frank, Cheryl Standish – Instructor, 1985
"Alpha-Pets" are the focal point of an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum. Each pet is featured for a week in a vocabulary-rich story and introduces related activities beginning with the featured letter, such as the four food groups during Freddie Fish's week or universe during Ulysses Unicorn's week. (MT)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Benedict, Susan – Learning, 1984
In a whole-language kindergarten, children learn language skills in a social context. Suggestions on how to develop activities that focus on a different letter of the alphabet each week are offered. These activities tie together all areas of the curriculum. (DF)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Kindergarten, Language Skills, Learning Activities

Horner, David – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Outlines a game which requires students to identify and use letters of the Latin alphabet. The game consists of three steps in that: (1) students must correctly identify letters; (2) after "winning" a letter, groups of students use them to build words; and (3) from the words, students add other words to construct complete sentences. (PJM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Class Activities, English (Second Language), Games

Jones, Marian – Reading Teacher, 1983
Offers guidelines for helping children produce their own alphabet books. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities

Hall, Lawrence – Russian Language Journal, 1982
A strategy developed in Bulgaria for instruction in the Russian alphabet is described and discussed, and instructional materials are listed. The technique, based on suggestopedic methods, teaches letters not separately but as parts of words and sentences, and no comparisons are made with the Latin alphabet. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cyrillic Alphabet, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction, Reading Rate
Perez, Idalia Rodriguez – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
This guide will help teach phonemic awareness to Pre K-3 students. It presents phonemic awareness as a sophisticated branch of phonological awareness through interactive activities that allows the student to succeed in learning the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet. The book is designed to provide easy-to-follow suggestions for:…
Descriptors: Phonics, Beginning Reading, Phonemics, Alphabets