Alphabet Around the Room

Graphically illustrate blossoming literacy skills with a wrap-around-the-room vocabulary word display.

• 1.

  The 26 letters used to spell words in English is called an alphabet. You can probably sing all the letters in the alphabet. Can you recognize each one? Do you know how to write them? How about words that start with each letter?

• 2.

  Write each uppercase letter on a separate piece of construction paper with Crayola Twistables®. Outline letters as large as you can so they are easy to read from a distance. Decorate each letter with colorful designs.

• 3.

  Hang string, yarn, ribbon, or twine around your classroom walls at raised-arm height. Paper clip letters to the string in alphabetical order. Sing or say the letters, round and round the room.

• 4.

  Using Crayola Scissors, cut paper into strips the same width as the letter pages. As you learn new words, write them on the paper strips with Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils. If you need to correct spellings, just erase! With a Crayola Glue Stick, attach words below the correct letters. Watch your vocabularies grow all around the room!

Benefits

• Students write uppercase alphabet letters to fabricate a classroom display.
• Students recite the alphabet in order after hanging them in their display.
• Students record words that correspond to letters of the alphabet to develop a class vocabulary list.

Adaptations

• Use the words in spelling and vocabulary lessons with all school subjects.
• Older students study the origins of our alphabet. Students who speak other languages share their alphabets.
• Write poems, plays, or stories using words from different letters.
• Assessment: Have children color-code their entries so it is easy to tally the additions they make.