Purposes
Alphabet books introduce the sounds and letters of the ordered alphabet. These books provide a non-threatening genre in which children engage in a variety of both fiction and non-fiction texts. Alphabet books provide opportunities for:
- Developing conversations and proficiency in oral language
- Increasing phonemic awareness
- Teaching phonics
- Making text connections (Activating prior knowledge)
- Predicting (Text talk)
- Building vocabulary
- Inferencing / drawing conclusions
- Sequencing
- Identifying elements of story structure
- Recognizing point of view
- Visualizing setting (Time, place and atmosphere)
- Performing Dialogue (Plays and Readers’ Theater)
- Rereading for fluency
- Retelling for comprehension checks
- Engaging Multiple Intelligences through writing, music, art, Dance
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