Playful Letters
Title | Playful Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Mary Boeckeler |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2017-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1609384741 |
Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image. Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the “letterature” that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body—an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image. In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic alphabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia, Playful Letters contributes to the continuous story of how people use new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including the alphabet itself.
The Playful Alphabet
Title | The Playful Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Jeana Kinne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2021-03-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Teach the Alphabet through play! Kids learn the best through hands-on activities! Let's have some fun learning the alphabet through movement, art and sensory exploration! This hardcover version includes over 130 letter activities, your child will learn to identify all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. This is part of the Sammy the Golden Dog Activity Series. Details: Over 130 Alphabet Activities: Introduce letter recognition and phonological awareness (letter sounds) through play! Each letter is taught through: Art Sensory Exploration Movement Your child will learn: letter identification and literacy concepts. There are five activities related to each letter. The first letter activity introduces the shape of the letter. The second and third activities use art materials to reinforce the shape of the letter. The fourth and fifth activities incorporate literacy and gross motor skills to introduce phonological concepts. Includes: 5 Activities for each letter (A through Z) Alphabet Review Games
A Child's Day
Title | A Child's Day PDF eBook |
Author | Ida Pearle |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780152065522 |
Demonstrates the diverse activities playful children can do, with words that begin from A to Z.
A is for Salad
Title | A is for Salad PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Lester |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2002-01-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0698119266 |
A is for what? A is for salad, and B is for Viking. Welcome to the wacky world of Mike Lester, where nothing is as it seems. Is A really for salad, or is it for the alligator eating a bowl of mixed greens? And maybe B is for the beaver wearing a Viking helmet. You'll have to look twice to figure out what each letter really stands for in this irreverent alphabet book. Learning your ABCs has never been so much F-U-N. Mike Lester “turns the alphabet picture book on its hoary head . . . the book is hilarious, right down to its view of X and Y: 'not important. Never use them'." US News and World Report
Sammy Chases the Alphabet
Title | Sammy Chases the Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Jeana Kinne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2019-11-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781687573711 |
Play fetch with Sammy, the golden retriever, as he teaches your child the alphabet! It's time for an alphabet adventure as Sammy, the golden retriever, searches for the alphabet around his favorite place to play fetch, his farm! Determined to find every letter, Sammy encounters his friends doing some silly things, including a cow having a birthday party and some muddy pigs dancing a jig! Your child will have a blast helping Sammy find them all! Sammy supports a love of learning by teaching children speech and cognitive skills in a fun way. The upbeat, rhyming phrases will capture your child's attention, enticing them to read the book over and over again with excitement! "There goes "T" by the squirrel in the tree! It's traveling toward the tortoise whose looking at me!" This sweet, imaginative picture book is targeted for children ages 2-8. This fun-to-read story is the second book of the "Sammy Series" featuring Sammy, the golden retriever, that kids are sure to cherish and learn from. Bonus: Simple games included in the back of the book teach children how letters make words!
AlphaDabbles
Title | AlphaDabbles PDF eBook |
Author | Majorie Price |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1980-01-01 |
Genre | Alphabets |
ISBN | 9780394843032 |
Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by designs made by repeating the letter. Includes pages on which the reader can draw his own designs.
Waldorf Alphabet Book
Title | Waldorf Alphabet Book PDF eBook |
Author | Famke Zonneveld |
Publisher | SteinerBooks |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2005-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1621510905 |
(From the forward) We are confronted by demands for social reconstruction. These pose grave problems with far-reaching implications. This books is written with the conviction that their solution must be looked for along lines not yet considered. Its aim is to show what has to be done in order that social demands coming from a larger part of mankind may be turned in the direction of conscious social purpose. Welcome or unwelcome, the facts of social life are present and must be reckoned with. Those who may object to the author's way of discussing proletarian demands should bear this in mind. He wants to present life as it really is. He is aware of the fatal consequences that will result if people refused to look at the facts. These facts have arisen out of the life of modern mankind.