The first paragraph gives some history and major achievements of the Phoenicians. Scroll down for alphabet and other achievement information.

AlphaSongs song lyrics--for teaching the alphabet--feature suggested activities to enhance your students' learning experience in conjunction with an optional CD.

This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...

An inspirational alphabet of children's dreams based on The North Star, a children's book about following your own path in life.

This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.

Make practice worksheets for children learning to write letters of the alphabet and words. You can create version for print or cursive. Examples of other worksheets created by teachers are also available for printing.

This explanation of the history of writing traces writing from the use of "Counting tokens," to the development of the Roman alphabet. The pictures of how writing has progressed over time is very interesting and helpful.

A great resource for teachers introducing the concepts of "letters" and "words" to early elementary young scholars. Uses the names of the students themselves as a starting place in learning these concepts. Great site.

This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will distinguish vowel letters from consonant letters. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable fish-themed worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will distinguish vowel letters from consonant letters. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will match each short vowels to the picture that begins with it. An answer key and lesson extension are included.

This printable consonant letter learning exercise from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /f/. An...

This printable consonant letter and dance-themed worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with...

This printable consonant letter activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /j/ or /k/. An...

This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /l/. An answer key...

This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with with /m/. An answer...

This printable consonant letter activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple words and then identify each word that start with /s/. An answer key...

This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will look at a picture with multiple words and then identify each item that does not start with /w/. An...

This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /c/. An answer key...

Turn the pages of this scanned copy of A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway. Read along with the story and look at the pictures of this alphabet book about making and eating an apple pie.

This engaging picture dictionary encourages reading and vocabulary building among your young students whose first language is Spanish. There are also coloring activities which can be printed out.

This engaging picture dictionary encourages reading and vocabulary building among your young students whose first language is Spanish. There are also coloring activities which can be printed out.

This interactive whiteboard game requires students to click to identify letters of the alphabet by name or sound. Students can choose upper case or lower case letters.

This learning game directly instructs the letters of the alphabet. Students will hear the name of a capital letter, fly along with the letter on a hot air balloon, and then find its matching lower case version of the letter.