Books About the ABC’s: Why Are These Important to Student Success?
Books About the ABC’s: Why Are These Important to Student Success? Alphabetical knowledge, or knowing letter names and later, letter sounds which merge into formal phonics instruction (Savage, 2011), is one of the best predictors of student success when they are learning to read. The ability to look at an individual letter and recognize its sound is a skill that children are taught and must work to develop over ti me (Savage, 2011, pg. 28), they are not born with the ability, so it is our responsibility as educators to teach them these things within our classroom. This can be done through letter charts, alphabetical notecards, or, what I will be discussing in this blog post, ABC books. In this blog post I will highlight the process of how students begin to learn letters, recognize them, and associate the symbols with the sounds they make, while giving you a few examples of great ABC books that can assist in the teaching process. Pulling On Knowledge from the World Around Them: When yo