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The Pirate Handwriting story book by D. Passmore

  This makes handwriting a fun adventure with easy-to-trace images that follow a logical pattern. Less letter confusion with b and d reversal problems solved. The colorful bird points out the all-important vowel sounds. Four books in one. The complete lowercase letter handwriting storybook collection. Find on Amazon. Treasure-seeking pirates find things in the sand to trace around. This is how they learn the new skill of handwriting. Pirate-themed word-play helps create a memorable and fun storyline, with playful use of the letters: r, i, c, and x. The similar grouping of letter shapes makes it easy for them to learn the four-letter groups quickly. Special attention is shown to the importance of the vowel letters. With the help of a chatty parrot, the story has incorporated a few vowel sounds. Each letter has a specific visual cue to demonstrate the correct letter starting point. The letters are organized in clusters to help correct letter reversal errors. Each book in the series share
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Air Writing Alphabet book NEW Release

978-0-473-46320-5 My new book with flashcards pages and teacher notes on the back pages. The back cover has the reversed view of letters for a teacher to use as a reference. Order book Here Air Writing is a fun way to use play-based learning.  It is simple and a low prep activity.  There is one important thing to remember when using air writing:   when you are facing another person,  the view will look reversed to them.   It is the mirror effect.  Your right will be their left. So as a teacher, when I am facing a student, and they ask how do I make a letter h? I need to remember to turn the h backward, so they see the correct view. For me: it is a big stick down then bump to the left.  For them:  they see a big stick down and it bumps to the right.  ( the correct way) It takes a little bit of extra thought before making the letters. One letter at a time is easy! But when doing lots of letters, and trying to say the correct letter sou
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Eating the Alphabet with Alex the Alligator

978-0-473-39803-3 you can find the book on  amazon  Eating the Alphabet with Alex the Alligator This first book of mine was written as a silly way to combine the print-rich classroom with preschool alphabet games.    We were already using the homemade alligator game to feed the alligator the alphabet soup.  That idea came from Pinterest.  This book created another visual link to the tactile game.  I have watched many children re-enact the story in the classroom after they are read the book.  It is easy to group all the items together in a basket and leave it for them to choose as a game.  Education can be play for them.   Mostly Healthy As a teacher and a mom,  I try to encourage healthy eating.  The pictures that I  put into the book are mostly healthy.    When it came to some letters like D, I decided to go with doughnut instead of date, because I wanted the kids to be able to associate the pictures with real things.   Dates look too much like raisins and I t
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