Carson Dellosa 39-Piece Farmhouse Cursive Alphabet and Number Line Bulletin Board Set, Cursive Alphabet Wall Strip and Number Line, Cursive Classr...

Los uso para aprender a leer y reforzar las letras son muy tiles para una clase

I ordered these for a first year teacher. She is very excited about the size and quality of the pictures.

After getting my alphabet on my board and getting it perfectly straight, I realized that some of the lines are printed on most of each piece, but not all pieces. No one notices it but me but still not designed well.

As a retired kindergarten and first grade teacher, I sometimes tutor children (and even adults) that need some help with reading. SOME never made the association that words are made up of letters and each letter has its own sound. By sounding out the letters in the unknown word, one can "figure out" that unknown word AUTOMATICALLY as they read. The most important skill for beginning readers is decoding words. That means looking at the letters of a new unknown word, figuring out the sound each letter makes, "sounding out the word phonetically", and putting those SOUNDS together to DECODE the word. That's how I was taught to read in the early 1960s. Many baby boomers and subsequent students learned the same way. Then came "whole language learning" where you just learned each "whole word" to read. This "whole language" approach to reading bypassed and de-emphasized phonics (sounding out the letters in words) to a generation of students which is why SOME adults may not read as well or as quickly as others. Some folks just "figured out how to read all on their own" but others did not. Thankfully the phonics approach, learning to associate the sounds of letters to "read" unknown words made a very dramatic comeback and is now taught in early grades in schools. However, the COVID shutdown of schools means that many children did NOT learn the basics of learning letters/sounds ("sounding out the word") through the necessary daily practice in their kindergarten/first grade classrooms. Now some students are struggling to "catch up" in their current upper classrooms. A great solution is tutoring for students of all ages which can help create and inspire better readers! That's where this particular product can help! I used a similar set in my classroom for 20 years and I now use this set when tutoring to teach letters and sounds associations. We make a game of singing a song with the NAME of each letter, the SOUND(s) of each letter, and the associated PICTURE for each letter sound. (example: "Apple, apple, short sound for /a/" repeated twice. Then "Ankle, ankle, long sound for /a/" repeated twice. Then repeat for each letter of the alphabet. Go through the song at least 2 times a day.) Learners then can automatically decode and sound out new/unknown words when they are reading. It makes learning fun and automatic for readers of ALL AGES!!! This set of letter/sound/picture cards is a FANTASTIC tool to help with learning! Learners can hold them in there hands as they sing the song or they can be displayed on the wall of their home.

My son enjoys looking at this while learning the alphabet. Its a bit easier for him to sort them since theyre grouped together. Also a nice feature that each letter has two items pictured to help with phonics