L is for Lion: And Other Playful Alphabet Fun
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Between the Lions® is an award-winning PBS KIDS television series that offers a playful approach to teaching children literacy skills and introducing them to the joys of reading.
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L is for Lion - Between the Lions Staff
978-0-87659-354-7
Introduction
Learning the names, shapes, and sounds of letters has never been so much fun!
The activities, games, information, and ideas in this book were developed by the staff of Between the Lions, the award-winning PBS KIDS television series, which is produced by WGBH Boston, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., and Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The television series features a lion family—parents Theo and Cleo and their cubs, Lionel and Leona—who live in a public library. This book uses the same playful approach as the Between the Lions program, in which the doors between the lions
swing open to reveal a place in which characters pop off the pages of books, letters sing, and words come alive.
Between the Lions has been the subject of numerous independent, scientifically-based reading research studies that have all shown that the program has a significant impact on increasing children’s literacy. For more information about the Between the Lions program and for more literacy games and activities, go to pbskids.org/lions.
Open the pages of this book and find lively, fun-to-do ideas that will help your child begin to learn the alphabet by searching for letters in a newspaper, singing a song, marching along the shape of a letter, and lots more. Let the fun (and learning) begin!
In L Is for Lion, when we talk about the sound that a letter makes, it appears between two slashes. For example, the letter S makes the /s/ sound.
Letters and the Sounds They Make
Try the following fun and easy ideas to help your child learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet and the sound each letter makes.
• Say the name of your child’s favorite toy or food. What is the first letter of that word? Ask your child to point to it on an alphabet chart, in a book, on a food package, or on a sign. What sound does the letter make?
• Talk about the shapes of certain letters. Say, I think the letter S looks like a snake. M looks like two mountains. T looks like a telephone pole.
• Use your fingers, arms, or whole body to make letter shapes. Ask your child to make the letters T, L, and O. Together, can you make the letters H and A?
• How did you learn the alphabet? Probably by singing
The Alphabet Song
! Sing the song with your child. Sing it slowly and sing
it quickly. Whisper it or shout it out loud! Sing it forward and then sing it backward!
The Alphabet Song
A – B – C – D – E – F – G,
H – I – J – K– L – M – N – O – P,
Q – R – S,
T – U – V,
W – X,
Y and Z,
Now I know my ABCs.
Next time sing them backward with me.
The Alphabet Song Backward
Z – Y – X – W – V – U – T,
S – R – Q – P – O – N – M – L – K,
J – I – H,
G – F – E,
D – C,
B and A,
Now I’ve said my ZYX’s.
Bet that’s not what you expected!
• If you have alphabet magnets on your refrigerator, your child may enjoy matching the magnetic letters to the letters on the pages of this book.
Note: If you are unfamiliar with this song or any other song in this book, use a search engine to find places on the web where you can hear it.
Your Child’s Name
Your child’s first name is a very important word. In fact, it’s the perfect word to help your child learn about letters and the sounds they make.
• Write your child’s name on lunch bags, in a sandbox, on foggy windows, and on mirrors. Say the letters aloud as you write. Invite your child to write too!
• Together, make the letters of your child’s name from objects such as twigs and pipe cleaners or from clay or cookie dough.
• Search for things that begin with the same sound as your child’s name. Make up a song together with lots of verses.
What begins with T? What begins with T?
Tanya and table both begin with T.
• Look for the first letter of your child’s name on signs, food packages, and magazine covers. Look for other favorite letters. Point to and say the first letter of your name, too. What other letters can your child name?
• Read alphabet books together (a few suggestions follow), and then make an alphabet book! For each letter, think of a family name or something that your child likes. Together with your child, draw a picture on a piece of paper (or attach a photo). Write a word or sentence on the paper about the picture. Soon you will have
your own alphabet book.
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