ABC Book Ideas & Giveaway

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Today we will be sharing ideas about creating ABC books with your children. It is beneficial to review the important skill of letter recognition at home & on the go! Personalized ABC books are great teaching tools. They make letter concepts concrete and incorporate familiar objects, which in turn activates prior knowledge. Making mental connections makes it easier for learners to remember the concept.

Jenny and her daughter are working together to create an alphabet photo book.

Shelby at Schweri Stories shared a digital ABC book.

Katie from Katie's Nesting Spot is currently making an alphabet book like the one she found on Let's Explore. This looks like a simple and quick way to put one together and since it's in a photo album pictures can be quickly added or changed. This format is inexpensive, plus the pages will hold up to a toddler looking at them over and over.

Sandy at Just for Fun is working on alphabet art projects, and plans on compiling them all into an alphabet artbook. Click on alphabet under her labels to see more projects for the book.

There are many online digital services available for creating books. Shutterfly, which has a predesigned ABC book available, is easy to use. Katie, from Katie's Nesting Spot, has several Shutterfly photo books and highly recommends them.

This alphabet tag book shown on A Listmaker's Life is an easy activity to take along in a travel bag for a quick letter sound review. The time spent putting together the book is also effective letter/sound practice.

Elementary Aged Activities:

abcteach has some ABC activities, their free ABC flashcards provide nice illustrations for each letter of the alphabet. They also have simple ABC book pages, each letter outlined for your child to color with space for a picture below that can be a drawing, clipping from a magazine, or photograph. These pages could be compiled into an ABC book afterward. There is also an animal alphabet ABC coloring book that could be completed and made into an alphabet book.

Click here, for directions on how to make an ABC pop up book.

Visit this link for a PDF handout from a presentation on Making ABC Books with Your Students, ideas are given for each grade K through 5. Activities include a buddy book made by student buddies pairs of first and fifth graders working together to make animal report for an animal alphabet, creating an name alphabet alliteration, researching for and making an alphabet based on Mali - an early West African empire, making an alphabet based on your home state, and making an alphabet on U.S. Facts. It also includes an ABC Book Planning Sheet.

Here is another lesson for making an animal alphabet book with second graders.

Elementary and Beyond:

Here is a basic ABC book template that could be used with elementary students, and in case you were wondering "ABC books Aren't for Babies," as this article from Education World proves. Included in the article are ideas for a range of curriculums and grade levels.

Read • Write • Think has a comprehensive lesson for grades 6-8: ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas. The student handouts are provided in PDF form.

Here is a PDF list of suggested ABC books from Read • Write • Think.

Today's Giveaway:

Win an ABC and a 123 tag books to put together with your student! These colorful mini albums include one page for each letter of the alphabet and each number 1-20. With pre-readers, spend time searching for pictures to help teach each letter and number. With older learners use these taggies to organize vocabulary terms or other necessary themeatic information.

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