Description
Book SynopsisCan you spot Dinaroo and her friends and see what they have found in the dump? Can they recycle it? Or make something new?
Written by two leading psychologists, the engaging, colourful, fully illustrated alphabet story in the first part of this book is accompanied by an extensive workbook section. Here you find exercises, in the form of games, to develop the important component skills needed for reading and learning about printed letters. Together you and the child will be able to practice the phoneme (speech sound) awareness and other fundamental language skills that are so important, and often difficult to acquire, for young children who may have dyslexia or speech and language problems.
My Special Alphabet Book will provide the vital early support these young children need in literacy. It also includes a user-friendly guide for parents and teachers, as well as extension activities to build awareness of environmental issues.
Trade ReviewI would strongly recommend any educator, specialist teacher or parent to use this book which introduces the alphabet and the letter-sound correspondences so vital to successful reading development. It also presents the concepts and materials in a fun and topical manner which will hold the attention of the child. -- Dr Kevin Smith, Professional Development Co-ordinator of the Professional Association of Teachers of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (PATOSS)
This is a lovely book! It is also special in embracing the important principle that language is the foundation of literacy. Complete with beautiful illustrations, and an important environmental message, the book acknowledges the need to build phonological awareness and oral language skills in concert. Parents and children can together enjoy activities including the key components of reading for meaning: phonological awareness, active listening, vocabulary enrichment, questioning, inferencing and story-telling. Based on the insights of two psychologists with extensive clinical experience, the book is aimed at children with dyslexia, acknowledging that many such children have language difficulties. However, the book can be recommended to all parents and grandparents who care about literacy. -- Professor Maggie Snowling CBE, President of St. John’s College, University of Oxford
Table of ContentsAbout this Workbook
Who we are
Why we have written this Workbook
What's inside this Workbook
Things to remember when reading this Workbook
The Alphabet Recycle Story
How to use this book
What is Dyslexia?
What are Developmental Language Difficulties?
What skills do children need to start to learn to read?
How to read the Alphabet Recycle story to a child
Introducing the Activities
Part 1: Phonological awareness/sounds activities
Activities
Activity 1: Words and sounds
Activity 2: Syllable Segmentation
Activity 3: Phoneme Segmentation
Activity 4: Rhyme Production
Activity 5: Alliteration
Activity 6: Identifying End Sounds in Words
Activity 7: Sound Blending;
Part 2: Linking Letters to Sounds (The Linkage Games)
Activities
Materials for Activities 8-11
Activity 8: Easy Level
Activity 9: Middle Level 1
Activity 10: Middle Level 2
Activity 11: Hardest Level
Activity 12: Finger Tracing
Activity 13: Linking letters and sounds - two letters together
Part 3: Learning to Listen
Activity 14: Following instructions
Part 4: Language Activities
Activity 15: Expanding vocabulary
Feeling words
Doing Words (verbs):
Describing Words (adjectives)
Activity 16: Learning Some Difficult Words and Concepts
Activity 17: Asking 'Wh' Questions (who, where, why and when)
Activity 18: Asking How questions
Activity 19: Developing Narrative
Activity 20: Making simple predictions
Activity 21: What am I?
Part 5: Harder Sound Activities
Activity 22: Taking Away Beginning Sounds from Words
Activity 23: Taking Away End Sounds from Words
Part 6: Harder Sound and Letter Linkage Activities
Activity 24: Linking letters and sounds - three letters together
Part 7 Harder Listening Activities
Activity 25: Spot the mistake
Activity 26: Spotting target words in a story
Story 1
Story 2
Part 8: Extension Language Activities
Activity 27: Expansion and Recasting
Activity 28: Reflection and Reinforcement
Activity 29: Understanding Rules of Grammar
Activity 30: Describing Daily Routines
Part 9: Drawing Shapes and Writing Letters
Activity 31: Copying Shapes
Activity 32: Learning to Write Letters
Part 10: Green Awareness/Eco Activities
Activity 33: What are things made of?
Activity 34: Using waste things
Activity 35: Sorting the rubbish
Cut-out 1
Cut-out 2
Cut-out 3
Cut-out 4
