Book-Related Events and Deals for Kids at Home

I love how many people are stepping up to help in these weird times. A lot of children’s book authors have been reading from the books on Facebook and elsewhere, celebrities are reading books, authors are offering drawing lessons and more.

There’s a great list of many of these events and videos at We Are Teachers. Events are organized by kids’ age group and further by author name.

If your child needs some new books to listen to, Audible is offering a collection of free audiobooks for kids. There are classics as well as newer options, arranged by age group. You’ll also find books in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Japanese, if you want to slip some language learning in with your entertainment.

[Photo: Mo Willems Lunch Doodles.]

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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