Cathy Cawood

Alphabet Phonics For Kids Cathy Cawood

When a child is learning to read, they need to know the following information about each letter:

The name of letterThe capital and lower case formsThe sound the letter makes in wordsHow to write the letter correctly

This book has one alphabet letter per page, shown In both capital and lower case. Each letter has 3 speech bubbles with colorful pictures of example words that use that sound. The words are also written on the page with the letter highlighted in red, both at the beginning of the word and wherever else it appears in the word.

How to teach phonics with this book? Just flip through the book, saying the sounds and the words. . It only takes 5 minutes, and after a few weeks the kids will be able say the sounds, and will also have also learned 3 words for each sound. For ESL kids, this is a lot more new vocabulary than they can learn from a poster, or many of the phonics card sets available.