Alphabet and number books

[cole]

Can anyone recommend any for Geogia? She is ok with numbers but not so good with letters. She is getting frustrated as her friends are doing but she isnt. I've looked a loads and not sure what to get.

Thanks xx

[EvansMum]

I dont know about books but Evan has an alphabet puzzle that we do together and thats helped him learn alot about letters. He picked up the 'M' yesturday and said "Look m for mummy and m for mouse" so hes slowly getting the hang of it. When we do it we always sound the letters out and I always say other things that begin with that letter.

That Leap pad Scrible and write thingy is also good for getting them to learn to draw letters and recognise them. Here it is.

[Nickit]

Again, I don't really know of any books - we tend to do puzzles with Isabelle. It might be worth finding out what scheme the schools around you use, Jolly Phonics or Letterland are often used and they have supporting books that you can buy from Early Learning Centre etc.

The only thing I would say is to make sure that if there are corresponding pictures to the letters, make sure they really do match with the sound the word begins with e.g. we've got alphabet books that show 's' as 'sheep' which is not strictly true - sheep actually has a 'sh' sound at the beginning. Sounds trivial perhaps but at this early age the focus is on the sounds and it can be confusing!

[matilda s mum]

Tilly has a couple of books which are good.

One is a "Slide and Learn" book - they do alphabet and numbers too:

ABC (Slide & Learn): Amazon.co.uk: Hinkler Books: Books


She also has a "Early Learning Fun" book which is wipe clean - has a special pen - has lots of things in it including numbes and the alphabet.

Early Learning Fun Wipe Clean Let's Learn Activity Books: Amazon.co.uk: Roger Priddy: Books

and finally, this wipe clean book - "Let's Get REady for SChool" is fab too - we got ours from a Mini IQ book party:

Let's Get Ready for School: Amazon.co.uk: Roger Priddy: Books

[cole]

Thanks I'll have a look at your ideas. I have a few books for her already but they dont seem to work for her. xx

[angelbabies]

hi we have the following and my dd likes it alot - doesn't always trace the letters but just kind of browses pages and writes on the book in her own way. but we do bits together too. got the number book too the other day. not sure if thats what you are after.

Learn to Write Your Letters Wipe Clean Write and Learn: Amazon.co.uk: Roger Priddy: Books

[hiann]

the pridy range do a box of number and a box of letter cards: Sainsburys and Tesco do them. They are quite big and on the opposite side of each letter card there are other words starting with the letter.

Play I-spy: we started by spying something that was red etc before moving onto the proper way with letters.

Sort things into letter piles like "s" pile for shoe, sock, string

Do join the dots to make up her name.

Maybe have Countdown on in the background on tv: we started with how many "e"'s were on screen in a round and read the letters out as they were put up.

try websites: Printable Alphabet Letters | Alphabet Worksheets | Pre-K & K

[dara07]

I think storytime is great at this age. Discuss stories/pictures etc.
A nice website is Learn to Read with phonics - letters, stories etc.

[cole]

Thanks. Georgia loves books and games so hopefully some of these will help her. We read every day and she 'reads' to me too she just really wants to know her letters. I'll let you know how she gets on and what works for her x

[angelbabies]

was jusr wondering how you got on and what books or puzzles you used - might be useful to us too. ta