ABC Foundations for Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum - Tapa blanda

"If preschool and early kindergarten teachers used these lessons to ensure that every child had mastered the alphabet, many more children would be ready to benefit from comprehensive reading instruction."--Dr. Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D."Consultant" (08/06/2012) "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.

Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this activity-based curriculum supplement is a fun, effective way to strengthen alphabet instruction in pre-K-Grade 1, without changing your whole curriculum or investing in expensive teaching materials. 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 recognise and write each letter in both upper- and lowercase forms and know the primary sound each letter represents. 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.