An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret Stories® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!

Bring home your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative 'Step Ahead' series of products. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. In this workbook, children can learn about letters, listen for beginning sounds, and match pictures with letters.

Identify the beginning letter of the pictures, then turn the page for the correct answer. A FUN and educational children's book for early stages phonics learning. Ages 4-5. Junior kindergarten, kindergarten and grade 1. This simple, basic letter sounds alphabet book is filled with cute and colorful illustrations. It's purpose is to teach the basic sounds of the letters of the alphabet. Two-three pictures accompany every letter with the prompt, "begin with the letter..." After guessing, the child turns the page for the answer. Suitable for preschoolers and younger children (2-3) to teach alphabet. Can be used sequentially or out of order. Can be used to determine child's knowledge or awareness of alphabet and phonics. Perfect for home or classroom environment. A great addition to kindergarten and daycare libraries. 6X9 inch, 56 pages, full color, softcover, sequential uppercase alphabet

Little i can't wait to meet his friends at school, but there's just one problem: he can't find his dot anywhere? Each letter offers a replacement—an acorn from Little a, a balloon from Little b, a clock from Little c—but nothing seems quite right. Adorable illustrations teach alphabet letters and sounds with a surprising and satisfying ending to Little i's search.

"Letter-a-week" may be a ubiquitous approach to teaching alphabet knowledge, but that doesn't mean it's an effective one. In No More Teaching a Letter a Week, early literacy researcher Dr. William Teale helps us understand that alphabet knowledge is more than letter recognition, and identifies research-based principles of effective alphabet instruction, which constitutes the foundation for phonics teaching and learning. Literacy coach Rebecca McKay shows us how to bring those principles to life through purposeful practices that invite children to create an identity through print. Children can and should do more than glue beans into the shape of a "B"; they need to learn how letters create words that carry meaning, so that they can, and do, use print to expand their understanding of the world and themselves.

Tip it, pat it.

Activity program for classroom use in teaching letters and their sounds to young readers using various senses: taste, smell, sight and touch.