There’s a lot to learn when students arrive at school for the first time. Learning when to listen and when speak up, self-help skills, making friends, discovering what it means to be a member of a classroom community.

Some of your students may be able to recall most of their letters and sounds. Some of your students might not know how to write their own names. Yet all of them have a place in your class to learn and grow. How will you support such different developmental needs?

When I taught pre-K and Kindergarten students I felt like I was always leaving someone out. Some of my colleagues swore by teaching a letter a week, claiming that young children couldn’t handle more advanced work. Other colleagues plowed ahead with the entire alphabet at once, playing catch up with students for the remainder of the school year. I just knew there had to be a better way.

Wait, that sounds like completely opposite approaches. How is that supposed to work? But I knew it was possible and Sound-Along Alphabet is the result.

With Sound-Along Alphabet you can identify what your students already know and what they need next. There’s a place for every child in the program, even if they aren’t yet identifying letters, sounds, or their own names. Sound-Along Alphabet is organized into developmental phases with unique activities that focus on what your students need to master in each phase. Letters and sounds are taught in collections so that students can advance through the alphabet at the right pace for them. It’s an approach that gets kids on track - every kid!