Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: ABC book, wooden letters

This topic has 7 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 5 months ago by albanyaloe.

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June 29, 2015 at 5:31 pm
sunnyellis
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Can any one recommend a good ABC book (board book preferred). I was thinking Tasha Tudor’s A is for Annabelle because I love her illustrations. I would love some other suggestions too though.
Also delightful reading recommends an alphabet set with upper and lower case letters. I have a leap frog word whammer but it only has lower case letters and makes lots of noise! Can anybody recommend an alphabet set? I think I would prefer wood or natural materials, but am open to anything well built and colorful
June 29, 2015 at 6:24 pm
Tristan
Participant
I like The Alphabet Room by Sara Pinto.
June 29, 2015 at 8:06 pm
RobinP
Participant
Two years ago at CMI, Carroll Smith did a session on reading the CM way. He recommended a set of those pressed wooden letters. I’ve seen them at places like Michaels and Hobby Lobby. He suggested they be large enough for the child to handle them and play with them so they become tactically familiar with each letter.
June 29, 2015 at 11:10 pm
HollyS
Participant
Melissa and Doug makes an alphabet set with both upper and lowercase letters. For alphabet books, my favorite is The ABC Bunny.
Robin, I’d never heard that before…I’ll have to keep that in mind when I’m teaching my next reader (which won’t be for a few years)!
June 29, 2015 at 11:36 pm
missceegee
Participant
My post is trapped bc of links. Trying without.
Montessori Outlet – moveable alphabets in lowercase, uppercase, print, cursive
Lauri Avalanche of Letters – on Amazon and in upper and lower case in one box.
June 30, 2015 at 7:24 am
missceegee
Participant
Moveable Alphabet Options (upper and lower case, print and cursive) – http://www.montessorioutlet.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi
Lauri Avalanche of Letters – http://www.amazon.com/Lauri-Toys-Alphabet-Avalanche-500-Letters/dp/B000F8R6JK
June 30, 2015 at 12:12 pm
cedargirl
Participant
I am ordering a large Montessori letter set off Amazon that it done in the D’Nealian font. We are using the D’Nealian option SCM provides (which I am thrilled about). Montessori sets come in lower or capital sets.
I have also seen very beautiful sewn fabric alphabets on etsy too. Possibly that would be another venue for wooden sets.
the artwork in Alison Jay’s ABC book is wonderful. We also have God’s ABC’s, A Little Jewel Book, from Rod & Staff Publishing. It was under $4 and a child favourite here.
June 30, 2015 at 3:51 pm
albanyaloe
Participant
Don’t know if you can find it in the US, but my children all used Dick Bruna’s: B is for Bear, an ABC. For the simplest toddler, just a page and a picture for each letter. We also had the Rod and Staff one cedargirl mentions, which is so beautiful. Later we enjoyed the Moncure First steps to reading, but of course, that is not ONE book. Around this time I also made an ABC notebook for the child, and the enjoyed finding pictures or telling me words to write on the correct pages. Aw, those were fun days.
I don’t know if any of those where CM friendly, or living books, I hadn’t “met” CM then 😉
Oh, we also used Chikka Chikka boom boom, but my gripe with this book is that you have to say the alphabet names (not sounds) for the words to rhyme in the story, and I thought it confused the children. I teach sounds first, cos it helps with phonics, then letter names. They did love that book best of all and somehow it didn’t confuse things.
Regards,
Lindy