abc Alphabet book for Beginning and Struggling Readers: Focusing on phonetic and letter shape correlations - Paperback

by Christian Arnold (Author)

This book focuses on the correlation between letter sounds and letter shapes. In this book, we are not primarily concerned with knowing the name of each letter. Nor are we focusing on letter sound variations or long vowels. As the child advances, then feel free to introduce letter sound variations. You may also notice, in this book, I am concentrating on the shape of the lowercase letters before introducing uppercase formations later. Why I wrote this book... When I was teaching, I could not find an alphabet book that contained all of the teaching components I was looking for. One, all the letters had to have word examples that represented the true sounds the letters make. Two, I carefully chose words all children could identify with. This book is geared towards those children who may not have been exposed to a vast array of words. Three, it is important for the child to connect the sound, visual letter representation, and real-life examples together with motion. That is why they form the letters as they hear and say them.

Author Biography

Christian Arnold has been a teacher and business owner. She loves to run, read, write, and spend time outdoors. She splits her time between Indiana and Maine, with her husband Jebb and two dogs.