Make Your Own Books
Letter a Day Instructional Routine
To set up your own classroom or home routine, click on this link for the directions to each step in teaching alphabet awareness for your emerging reader(s). Below is a short video on how you can use the Letter a Day Instructional Routine.
Template Book
If you'd like to make your own book from scratch, you can use this template book. When you click on this link, it will prompt you to "make a copy" that you can download or save to your own Google Drive. Below, there are 3 short tutorial videos on how you can use this template.
Letter a Day Instructional Routine Tutorial Video
Template Book Tutorial Video 1
Template Book Tutorial Video 2
Template Book Tutorial Video 3
To learn more...
There are lots of amazing sites with free resources to support emergent literacy. Check out these links for some of my favorites:
Tar Heel Reader (choose "Find a Book")
Caroline Musselwhite's AAC Girls and AAC Intervention
Low Tech Communication Boards
Providing emergent communicators, readers and writers with access to a multi-modal communication system is a literacy must do! You can access free light tech communication system from most high tech AAC creators, including
Proloquo2Go (image to right is from Proloquo2Go)
To learn more, click on this link to view a resource created by Barb Weitlisbach from the Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services.