What are the effects of multimedia-enhanced learning on building essential early literacy skills?

ABC ME, a multimedia-enhanced phonics lesson template, can be your answer to closing the reading readiness gap among your entering primary students! This slideshow template can enhance the phonics instruction accompanied by any adopted Language Arts program by using music, images, and videos to meet the needs of ALL of your prereaders. Work with ABC ME to create specific and targeted phonics lessons that will ensure a foundation for reading success for all of your students.

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Multimedia-Enhanced Phonics Lessons

    Did you know that a significant amount of Kindergartners are walking through our classroom doors for the very first time behind before they even begin? In a primary classroom where students' readiness to read statuses vary from obsolete letter recognition to being able to read complete sentences, there is a vital need to close this widening gap. If this gap is not dissolved, those students who came in behind will continue on to the following grade level yet again behind and will continuously be burdened by the disadvantages that come along with the inability to interpret text, which will undoubtedly surface in all other content areas. If we are unable to control the incoming reading readiness levels of our primary students, we must then look to how we can control the literacy levels of our exiting students! Our job is to deliver ALL of our students the foundations for success, and therefore it begs the question, how can we close such a dauntingly present gap and set the foundation for reading success in the confines of our classroom and in the duration of a school year?

     ABC ME, a multimedia-enhanced phonics lesson template, can be your gap-eliminating solution to this pertinent question. ABC Me provides an organizational slideshow template necessary to implement a daily, direct, and systematic phonics lesson designed for multiple learning styles by embedding music, images, and videos. Through these phonics lessons, students of all learning styles will be able to acquire early literacy skills, such as letter identification, letter-sound relationships, sight word identification, recognizing beginning sounds of words, segmenting words, and blending letter sounds to read whole words. It is time for primary educators to put an end to the habitual repetition of students entering and exiting our classrooms behind in reading. Join me in my pledge against illiteracy and learn more about ABC ME!