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ABC Foundations for Young Children, including: picture and game cards, activity sheets, songs, and more!
Young children's knowledge of letter names and sounds is the best predictor of their reading and spelling progress in school—but studies show that many children still struggle with alphabet knowledge at the end of first grade. Now there's a fun and affordable way to answer the call for effective alphabet instruction, without changing your whole curriculum or investing in expensive teaching materials and training.
Developed by renowned reading expert Marilyn Jager Adams, this playful, highly engaging curriculum supplement is a must for teachers of preschool through kindergarten, as well as primary grade teachers of students who still need help with alphabetic basics. You'll get 56 activity-based lessons that help children recognize and write each letter in both upper- and lowercase forms and know the primary sound each letter represents.
Why Use ABC Foundations in Young Children?
- Aligned with Common Core State Standards
- Reflects the latest research on how kids learn best
- Complements any curriculum in early literacy
- Built around fun, fast , hands-on, minds-on activities that keep all children engaged
- Provides full lesson support for teachers—no extra training required
- Includes assessments for monitoring children's progress and needs
- Gives you adaptations for children who are ahead or behind pace
- Includes lesson support materials such as Alphabet Game Cards, Alphabet Strips, Letter Writing Activity Sheets
- Requires no expensive materials or technologies
- Ideal companion to Phonemic Awareness for Young Children
Enhance your early literacy instruction with this fun and effective curriculum supplement, and give children a solid foundation of alphabet knowledge they'll build on for years as they become confident readers and writers.
A featured book in our Launching Literacy Kit!
See which domain of school readiness in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework this book addresses.
Review
"An excellent example of research-based instruction: the research on which it is based is current and compelling, and the instructional application is artful and engaging." Joseph K. Torgesen, Ph.D.
Synopsis
Fun, effective, and affordable ways to teach alphabet skills
Synopsis
Access free resources to use with
ABC Foundations for Young Children, including: picture and game cards, activity sheets, songs, and more
Young children's knowledge of letter names and sounds is the best predictor of their reading and spelling progress in school--but studies show that many children still struggle with alphabet knowledge at the end of first grade. Now there's a fun and affordable way to answer the call for effective alphabet instruction, without changing your whole curriculum or investing in expensive teaching materials and training.
Developed by renowned reading expert Marilyn Jager Adams, this playful, highly engaging curriculum supplement is a must for teachers of preschool through kindergarten, as well as primary grade teachers of students who still need help with alphabetic basics. You'll get 56 activity-based lessons that help children recognize and write each letter in both upper- and lowercase forms and know the primary sound each letter represents.
Why Use ABC Foundations in Young Children?
- Aligned with Common Core State Standards
- Reflects the latest research on how kids learn best
- Complements any curriculum in early literacy
- Built around fun, fast, hands-on, minds-on activities that keep all children engaged
- Provides full lesson support for teachers--no extra training required
- Includes assessments for monitoring children's progress and needs
- Gives you adaptations for children who are ahead or behind pace
- Includes lesson support materials such as Alphabet Game Cards, Alphabet Strips, Letter Writing Activity Sheets
- Requires no expensive materials or technologies
- Ideal companion to Phonemic Awareness for Young Children
Enhance your early literacy instruction with this fun and effective curriculum supplement, and give children a solid foundation of alphabet knowledge they'll build on for years as they become confident readers and writers.
A featured book in our Launching Literacy Kit
See how this product helps strengthen Head Start program quality and school readiness.
About the Author
Marilyn Jager Adams, Ph.D., is a cognitive and developmental psychologist who has devoted her career to research and applied work in the area of cognition and education. Dr. Adams' scholarly contributions include the book Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print (MIT Press, 1994). Among honors, she has received the American Educational Research Association's Sylvia Scribner Award and The International Dyslexia Association's Samuel Torrey Orton Award.
Dr. Adams chaired the planning committee for the National Academy of Sciences (1998) report Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children and has served since 1992 on the planning or steering committees for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading. She also developed a vocabulary assessment for the 2014 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and was on the development team for the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy.
Dr. Adams has authored a number of empirically validated classroom resources, including Odyssey: A Curriculum for Thinking (Charlesbridge Publishing, 1986), which was originally developed for barrio students in Venezuela; Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1998) on language and literacy basics for emergent readers and students with special needs; Open Court's 1995 edition of Collection for Young Scholars, a program for reading, writing, and literacy development for elementary school students; and Scholastic's System 44 (2009) and iRead (2013), technology-based programs for building literacy foundations. She has also served on the advisory board for several of the Public Broadcasting System's educational programs including Sesame Street and Between the Lions, for which she was Senior Literacy Advisor.
Dr. Adams spent most of her career with the think tank Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN Technologies-"Where Wizards Stay up Late") in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2007, she was Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, which she cofounded with the goal of harnessing automatic speech recognition for helping students learn to read and read to learn. She is currently a visiting scholar in the Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Department at Brown University. She has two children: John, who is working toward a Ph.D. in social psychology, and Jocie, who is striving to be a musician. Her husband, Milton, is a rocket scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Charles Stark Draper Labs.
Table of Contents
Contents
About the Author
About the Online Materials
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Unit I Getting to Know the Alphabet Chapter 1 The Alphabet and the Uppercase Letters
Lesson 1: Introducing the AlphabetLesson 2: The "Alphabet Song"Lesson 3: Introducing Name PoemsLesson 4: Uppercase Letter Draw with Duplicates: A-MLesson 5: Uppercase Letter Draw with Duplicates: N-ZLesson 6: Uppercase Letter Face-Up Match: A-Z Chapter 2 Introducing the Lowercase Letters
Lesson 1: Lowercase Letter Face-Up Match: a-mLesson 2: Lowercase Letter Face-Up Match: n-zLesson 3: Lowercase Letter Draw with Duplicates: a-mLesson 4: Lowercase Letter Draw with Duplicates: n-zLesson 5: Lowercase Letter Face-Up Match: a-z Chapter 3 Introducing the Vowels
Lesson 1: Lowercase Letter Draw with Vowels as Wild Cards: a-zLesson 2: Uppercase Letter Draw with Vowels as Wild Cards: A-ZLesson 3: Alphabet MarchUnit II Writing Uppercase Letters
Chapter 4 Uppercase Letters with Vertical and Horizontal Strokes
Lesson 1: Writing Letters with Vertical and Horizontal Strokes: L, TLesson 2: Writing Letters with Vertical and Horizontal Strokes: I, HLesson 3: Writing Letters with Vertical and Horizontal Strokes: F, E Chapter 5 Uppercase Letters with Slanted Strokes
Lesson 1: Writing Uppercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: A and ZLesson 2: Uppercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: N and MLesson 3: Uppercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: V, W, and XLesson 4: Uppercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: Y, K Chapter 6 Uppercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs
Lesson 1: Uppercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: D, BLesson 2: Uppercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: P, RLesson 3: Uppercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: U, J Chapter 7 Uppercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock
Lesson 1: Uppercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: O, CLesson 2: Uppercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: Q, GLesson 3: Uppercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: SLesson 4: Write Your Own NameUnit III Writing Lowercase Letters
Chapter 8 Lowercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock
Lesson 1: Introducing Lowercase LettersLesson 2: Lowercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: o, cLesson 3: Lowercase Letters that Start with 2 o'Clock: a, dLesson 4: Lowercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: g, qLesson 5: Lowercase Letters that Start at 2 o'Clock: s, f Chapter 9 Lowercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs
Lesson 1: Lowercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: b, p Humps, and TroughsLesson 2: Lowercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: n, m Humps, and TroughsLesson 3: Lowercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: r, h Humps, and TroughsLesson 4: Lowercase Letters with Loops, Humps, and Troughs: u, j, e Humps, and Troughs Chapter 10 Lowercase Letters with Slanted Strokes
Lesson 1: Lowercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: v, wLesson 2: Lowercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: x, zLesson 3: Lowercase Letters with Slanted Strokes: k, y Chapter 11 Lowercase Letters with Straight Up-and-Down Strokes
Lesson 1: Lowercase Letters with Straight Up-and-Down Strokes: l, t, i Lesson 2: Lowercase Letter Wrap-UpUnit IV Introducing Letters and Sounds
Chapter 12 A Sound for Each Letter
Lesson 1: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Aa, BbLesson 2: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Cc, DdLesson 3: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Ee, FfLesson 4: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Gg, HhLesson 5: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Ii, Jj, KkLesson 6: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Ll, Mm, NnLesson 7: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Oo, Pp, QqLesson 8: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Rr, Ss, TtLesson 9: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Uu, Vv, WwLesson 10: Introducing the Sounds of the Letters: Xx, Yy, Zz Chapter 13 Long and Short Vowels
Lesson 1: Long and Short Sounds of the Letter AaLesson 2: Long and Short Sounds of the Letter EeLesson 3: Long and Short Sounds of the Letter IiLesson 4: Long and Short Sounds of the Letter OoContents xiLesson 5: Long and Short Sounds of the Letter UuWriting Assessment Appendix A Assessments
A.1: Uppercase and Lowercase Letter RecognitionA.2: Uppercase Letter WritingA.3: Lowercase Letter WritingA.4: Initial Consonant SoundsA.5: Vowel Identification and Sounds Appendix B Materials
B.1: Alphabet StripsB.2: Letter CardsB.3: Uppercase Letter Writing Activity SheetsB.4: Lowercase Letter Writing Activity SheetsB.5: Write Your Own Name (Uppercase)B.6: Write Your Own Name (Lowercase)B.7: Consonant Sound Game Activity Sheets Index