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After reading the book, try these activities to reinforce the letters of the alphabet. Write the letters on a large piece of chart paper and let your students help you think of things that begin with each letter and write them on the chart, too.
After you have completed the chart, assign each student one or two letters so that each letter of the alphabet is assigned. Tell them to write one letter onto a sheet of paper. Then pass out old magazines and let them find and cut out pictures of things that start with the assigned letters to glue on their papers. When all of the letter collages are finished, let the students share them with the class. Then you can either hang the collages in order to make a whole alphabet collage or bind the papers together to make an alphabet book.
Another idea is to have each student draw a picture of himself and write the letter that his name starts with at the top of the page. Then he can draw other pictures of objects that start with that same letter. Give each student a strip of paper that says "Big ____ Little ____ What begins with _____ ? _______________" have him fill in the first letter of his name in the letter blanks and his name in the blank after the question. Then he can glue the words at the bottom of his paper. -
In Dr. Seuss' ABC Book, both the lowercase and uppercase letters are shown for each letter. This provides an opportunity to teach your students about these letters. A matching game can be made to easily practice big and little letters. Use index cards cut in half and write the uppercase letters on one set of cards and the lowercase letters on another. Mix them up and have the students match the big letter with the little letter.
Use old magazines to make big and little letter collages. Tell your students they need to find a lowercase and uppercase version of each letter, cut it out and glue it on a piece of paper. Their collages should contain all of the alphabet in both big and small letters.
