Helen Likierman, Valerie Muter, Jane Dorner,
Can 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.
About 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
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
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
14: Following instructions
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?
22: Taking Away Beginning Sounds from Words Activity
23: Taking Away End Sounds from Words
24: Linking letters and sounds - three letters together
25: Spot the mistake Activity
26: Spotting target words in a story Story 1 Story 2
27: Expansion and Recasting Activity
28: Reflection and Reinforcement Activity
29: Understanding Rules of Grammar Activity
30: Describing Daily Routines
31: Copying Shapes Activity
32: Learning to Write Letters
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