This teacher resource book provides instructional strategies, activities, graphic organizers, and assessments to accompany the 26 Alphabet Connections in the Alphabet Connections series. Non-fiction writing, vocabulary development, and tips for differentiating instruction are also included.

This guide helps teacher effectively like the home and classroom environments. The guide contains: Weekly letters explaining what will happen in the classroom and how families can be involved Activities for each month of the year that children and families can do at home Take-home storybooks that allow families to partner with their children as they learn to read Take-home alphabet books that encourage and reinforce alphabetic awareness

This guide includes lessons that allow you to focus on the foundational skills that are so important to emergent readers as they connect sounds to letters, decode words, and develop a bank of sight words and academic vocabulary. In this guide, you will find tools to provide students with explicit and systematic phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. Each lesson links to an engaging studentbook that introduces phonics skills and provides a strong text-to-photo match in order to reinforce comprehension and build content-area knowledge.