My Special Alphabet Book: A Green-Themed Story and Workbook for Developing Speech Sound Awareness

Can you spot Dinaroo and her friends and see what they have found in the dump? Can they recycle it? Or make something new?

Written by two leading psychologists, the engaging, colourful, fully illustrated alphabet story in the first part of this book is accompanied by an extensive workbook section. Here you find exercises, in the form of games, to develop the important component skills needed for reading and learning about printed letters. Together you and the child will be able to practice the phoneme (speech sound) awareness and other fundamental language skills that are so important, and often difficult to acquire, for young children who may have dyslexia or speech and language problems.

My Special Alphabet Book will provide the vital early support these young children need in literacy. It also includes a user-friendly guide for parents and teachers, as well as extension activities to build awareness of environmental issues.

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Table of Contents

About this Workbook

Who we are Why we have written this Workbook What's inside this Workbook

Things to remember when reading this Workbook

The Alphabet Recycle Story

How to use this book

What is Dyslexia?

What are Developmental Language Difficulties?

What skills do children need to start to learn to read?

How to read the Alphabet Recycle story to a child

Introducing the Activities

• Part 1: Phonological awareness/sounds Activities

1: Words and sounds Activity

2: Syllable Segmentation Activity

3: Phoneme Segmentation Activity

4: Rhyme Production Activity

5: Alliteration Activity

6: Identifying End Sounds in Words Activity

7: Sound Blending

• Part 2: Linking Letters to Sounds (The Linkage Games) Activities Materials for Activities 8-11

8: Easy Level Activity

9: Middle Level 1 Activity

10: Middle Level 2 Activity

11: Hardest Level Activity

12: Finger Tracing Activity

13: Linking letters and sounds - two letters together

• Part 3: Learning to Listen Activity

14: Following instructions

• Part 4: Language Activities

15: Expanding vocabulary Feeling words Doing Words (verbs): Describing Words (adjectives) Activity

16: Learning Some Difficult Words and Concepts Activity

17: Asking 'Wh' Questions (who, where, why and when) Activity

18: Asking How questions Activity

19: Developing Narrative Activity

20: Making simple predictions Activity

21: What am I?

• Part 5: Harder Sound Activities

22: Taking Away Beginning Sounds from Words Activity

23: Taking Away End Sounds from Words

• Part 6: Harder Sound and Letter Linkage Activities

24: Linking letters and sounds - three letters together

• Part 7 Harder Listening Activities

25: Spot the mistake Activity

26: Spotting target words in a story Story 1 Story 2

• Part 8: Extension Language Activities

27: Expansion and Recasting Activity

28: Reflection and Reinforcement Activity

29: Understanding Rules of Grammar Activity

30: Describing Daily Routines

• Part 9: Drawing Shapes and Writing Letters Activity

31: Copying Shapes Activity

32: Learning to Write Letters

• Part 10: Green Awareness/Eco Activities

33: What are things made of? Activity

34: Using waste things Activity

35: Sorting the rubbish Cut-out 1 Cut-out 2 Cut-out 3 Cut-out 4