Lesley Beth
20 Years Teaching Early Literacy.

Tactile experiences, such as collage, add an extra dimension to a child's learning experience about letter shapes.

This book contains a collage page for each Alphabet letter. It is best used in conjunction with the Jazzles "Alphabet Clever Songs" CD that helps children understand sound-letter relationships as part of early reading readiness.

Your child can now have fun learning letter shapes to associate with the sounds being learnt through singing the Jazzles song lyrics. You'll find children really enjoy creative collage while learning letter shapes!

On this page, Lesley Beth explains how to use these "Alphabet Collage" with the Jazzles "Alphabet Clever Songs" CD to best effect.

About the Author
Lesley Beth is an educator, writer, composer and artist. She has combined these skills with her experience of teaching young children, to create Jazzles, a rich variety of teacher resource material to achieve early reading readiness by catering for children's multiple intelligences.

Always Play The Jazzles As Background Music

" Here's a great tip! Children love listening while they work! Play the Jazzles songs and you will keep the whole class happily focused and on task!

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Let kids craft letter shapes for early reading fun!

Kids crafts and arts are an ideal way to develop their early reading skills! With this 32 page Jazzles crafts, arts collage book, children can have fun while learning alphabet letter recognition.

Research shows that linking letters with sounds is the single most important step in early reading readiness.

The Jazzles 'Alphabet Collage' book is full of visual and tactile arts and crafts experiences to help children understand and recall letter shapes.

How To Have Fun Collaging:

"While children collage, I like to talk to them using as many words as possible starting with the collage letter we are working on. For example, with the letter 'M', I link the activity to the Jazzles CD 'M' song and its lyrics. I add multiple dimensions by painting the 'M' in watermelon pink, gluing melon seeds all over it and then discussing it with the children using as many alliterative words as I can. For example, "What a marvellous mouth-watering magnificent melon!" to reinforce the sound-letter link.

I ask children for their own ideas too, so you get helpful hints such as dribbling dirt inside the 'D' letter outline! Just the sort of thing children love to do!

Children love being creative. They love music too. This makes the activity even more enjoyable when they sing along as they collage, strongly reinforcing the sound/letter relationship!
When you start to collage, select the track of the same letter on the Jazzles 'Alphabet Clever Songs' CD and have fun! You can the collage ideas in this book, or better still, create your own! Don't forget to ask your children for their ideas too!"

My Collage Tips

• Photocopy the page you want to collage
• Make sure your collage page is strongly backed - paste the pages on recycled cereal boxes, construction board, etc
• You may like to paint or otherwise complete the background before you collage the "letter"
• Look out for interesting collage materials everywhere! You will find them in the garden, on a walk, going shopping, in the kitchen, in clothes chests and work baskets, etc
• Get ready before starting. Make sure you have strong glue, scissors, crayons, pencils, paint and a variety of collage materials
• Play the appropriate alphabet letter song from the Jazzles "Alphabet Clever Songs" CD and sing along as you collage

How To Use:

Encourage your children to completely collage the whole area of each letter while singing the related song on the Jazzles CD.

When you collage, use lightweight materials, or for heavier collage materials, photocopy the page and mount it on card before collaging.

Suggested lightweight materials include:

• From the kitchen - flour, coconut, poppy and sesame seeds, dried herbs, pot-pourri, sugar, chocolate powder, cake decorating materials.

• From about the home - all varieties of fabric, lace, cottons, wools, ribbons, cotton wool, stickers, glitter, colored paper and picture areas from newspapers and magazines.

• From the environment - grass, leaves, soil, fine sand, small seeds and flower petals.

• Also add scented oils like lavender oil for the letter 'L', to include the sense of smell.

Learning Outcomes

When used in conjunction with Jazzles 'Alphabet Clever Songs' CD, these Jazzles 'Alphabet Collage Sheets' provide children with learning opportunities to:-

• Identify and learn letter shapes.
• Develop fine motor skills necessary for handwriting.
• Develop sound-letter relationship understanding and recall.
• Develop vocabulary related to 'collage'.

Book Information

Specifications:

• 32 pages plus cover. Photocopiable
• Interior pages designed to photocopy to size "11" by 8.5" or to enlarge to 11" by 17".
• Full color soft cover, machine varnish, high quality art board.
• Quality white interior pages. 100gsm Precision. Blackline Print.
• Saddle Stitched.
• ISBN: 1876-99409-6.
• Teacher Reproducible - legally photocopy - see waiver.

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