Alphabet books for grade school can:
- Stimulate thinking and offer multiple possibilities of research or inquiry, reading comprehension, language development activities, and narrative structure
- Allow them to create their own alphabet book in order to research 26 aspects of a topic
- Encourage students to think and also discover more about a certain subject
- Be an entry into multicultural studies and awareness
- Introduce a science theme
- Support narrative text studies
- Create expression and vocabulary development
(Bradley & Bradley, 2014)
Alphabet books appropriate for the grade school level:
- Theme application
- Language focused
- Narrative Structure
- Artistic Mediums
- Stimulus for research
(Chaney, 1993; Coffman & Spohn, 1996)
They are used for:
- Modeling reading comprehension strategies
- Vocabulary/word study
- Self-interest language
- Research activities
- Poetry activities
(Coffman & Spohn, 1996)