Alphabet Connections Teacher S Resource Guide

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

Encourage children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions. Consultant, international speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with others. With vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, this is a foundational book about building relationships, fostering empathy and encouraging respect between peers, starting with our littlest citizens.

Planned activities are suggested for over 200 alphabet books and include objective(s), materials, and suggested grade level. Recommended for school librarians, teachers, and parents.

Support for teaching letter sounds, shapes and names to kindergarten and elementary school children.

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.