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Alphaboat

Author: -Michael Chesworth
Title: -Alphaboat
Illustrator: - Michael Chesworth
Publisher: - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: -2002


Format: -Hardcover
Genre: - Alphabet
Reading Level: - Beginner
Interest Level: - Early Elementary


Topics: - Learning Alphabet, making letters into a story


Summary: - In the story the letters are used at people such as Admiral T. They travel to an island to find that buried treasure. On the way they end up getting stuck and they find out Y. They get the treasure and the tide rose up so they got off the Y. In the treasure chest there was a dictionary. When they sail back to their home land they find out they for got the N.



Extension Activities: -
Have the children make their own story that involves all of the alphabet letters.

Learning the Alphabet, make up a song as a class.