I’ve always been interested in different learning styles. One of my favorite parts of studying education was coming up with different lessons to reach various learning styles. That passion spilled over to this blog, giving me a chance to come up with lots of different activities to inspire learning from a single book. I try to give my daughter lots of ways to practice any given subject. Recently, she has been showing increasing interest in letters and letter sounds. Since she is only 2 years old, I wanted to encourage her interest in a fun way that felt less pressured. Enter ABC See, Hear, Do – a fun new way to teach reading to different learning styles!

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ABC See, Hear, Do was written by Stefanie Hohl. This book uses fun animals to represent each letter of the alphabet. Each letter also has a corresponding physical movement. The idea behind the book is that kids will see the letters and associate them with the animal, physical movement and/or sound. This gives them multiple clues to the letter and sound they are looking for. The book provides large, clear illustrations for each letter, as well as the upper case and lower case versions of each letter.

Using ABC See, Hear, Do

The book isn’t laid out alphabetically, but instead starts by building a few simple words. There is a page in the back of the book that shows all of the letters and the matching animals. I would have liked a table of contents or index to help find a specific letter, but the layout allows kids to jump right into making words with the letters they are learning, instead of just making letter sounds in alphabetical order. This method gives them an opportunity to see how these letter sounds are used, and has them reading a few simple words only a couple pages in! My daughter has actually started using these methods when she sees letters around her in the world, without the prompting from the book. When she spotted the letter “c” on a sign recently, she made the hand motion and sound listed in the book.

Having Fun with Letters and Words

In addition to the book, Hohl also created flash cards that can be used along with it. There are several sets of flash cards available for both levels of the program. You can find them on her Etsy shop, as well as her Teachers Pay Teachers page. Some of the sets are perfect for card games and memory, while others are great for practicing reading. We had the opportunity to try out the upper case flash cards which each show a letter and it’s corresponding animal. These are ideal for allowing kids to take the learning off the page. They can move the letters around and create their own words to sound out. We had a lot of fun using the cards to review the letter sounds, as well as creating familiar words. The picture of the animal helped her remember the letter sounds if she forgot them, and she had a lot of fun acting them out.

Letter Sound Act It Out – Print the flash cards and cut them out. Put them in a pile facing down. Flip over the top card and have kids act it out. You can also play this as charades and guess which letter is being acted out. For more than one child, you could hold up the chosen card and see who can act it out first.

Word Building – Give kids a pile of flash cards and see how many words they can create with the letters in their pile.

Making New Words – Using the flash cards, lay out a word of 5 letters or more. Encourage kids to move the letters around the create their own words and then act out the motions and sound out the words. See how many words they can create from the one word.

Why ABC See, Hear, Do is a Must-Try!

I love that this program uses a wide variety of learning styles to teach kids how to read. For students who struggle with rote memorization, the physical and visual clues provide great support. The flash cards are a great way to provide hands on experience as well. My daughter had a lot of fun acting out the actions on each page and card, and she loved moving the cards around on the floor to create words (even if they weren’t real words all the time). I definitely recommend this program for kids who are starting to show an interest in letter sounds and reading. Not only can it help kids with a variety of learning styles, but it can make learning fun for the whole family!

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