You and your child can make your own ABC book with a page and picture for each letter.
Get two pieces of heavy card stock to use as front and back covers and a package of heavy white paper, something in the range of 32 pound weight.
Office Max, Office Depot, Kinko, Staples, and Xpedx sell the kinds of material you will want. These places can also spiral-bind your child's book so that it lies flat and is more fun to use.
Each of our ABCs need their own page. Remember to tell your child that each letter has a "dress up" letter to use at the start of someone's name, like Anna or Adam; or, Beth or Bart. And a small letter for all other print work: Aa apple, Bb bear, Cc cat, etc.
Later, when reading stories together, point to capital letters when they comes at the start of a name or at the start of a sentence. These are the two uses of capital letters: proper names and the 1st word in a sentence. (boy is a category word, John is a proper name.)
The lower-case a, also called small a, is the partner of capital A. Small a, lower-case a, is used for all the other writing jobs. Lower-case a comes at the start of words that are not special names, like: ant, alligator, antelope. And at the start of words that are not first in a sentence: ankle, any, answer. And inside of words, as in cat, raccoon, car, can, call, ball, banana, baboon, and so on. Lower-case a is small but much busier than capital, dress up A.
Have fun learning the ABCs. Children love making their own books and are much more interested in learning when they are looking at their own letters and pictures.
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Get two pieces of heavy card stock to use as front and back covers and a package of heavy white paper, something in the range of 32 pound weight.
Office Max, Office Depot, Kinko, Staples, and Xpedx sell the kinds of material you will want. These places can also spiral-bind your child's book so that it lies flat and is more fun to use.
Each of our ABCs need their own page. Remember to tell your child that each letter has a "dress up" letter to use at the start of someone's name, like Anna or Adam; or, Beth or Bart. And a small letter for all other print work: Aa apple, Bb bear, Cc cat, etc.
Later, when reading stories together, point to capital letters when they comes at the start of a name or at the start of a sentence. These are the two uses of capital letters: proper names and the 1st word in a sentence. (boy is a category word, John is a proper name.)
The lower-case a, also called small a, is the partner of capital A. Small a, lower-case a, is used for all the other writing jobs. Lower-case a comes at the start of words that are not special names, like: ant, alligator, antelope. And at the start of words that are not first in a sentence: ankle, any, answer. And inside of words, as in cat, raccoon, car, can, call, ball, banana, baboon, and so on. Lower-case a is small but much busier than capital, dress up A.
Have fun learning the ABCs. Children love making their own books and are much more interested in learning when they are looking at their own letters and pictures.
You may like to look at my Panda bear book when your child is ready to move into reading lessons. I use ebay as my website. Search Instant Reading Help, all my books will pop up.
All my books blend the tricky phonics, sight words, and a special comprehension method. Lessons are instructed through stories and games; lots of color pictures; step-by-step, not hit-and-miss. Thank you, Mary Maisner
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