Why our children aren’t learning the basics is easy to see. Parents can’t trust the system and are looking for other options beyond public education while cities and states attempt to clamp down on school choice. Let’s not forget that white guilt is, also, perpetuated. On top of that is the encouragement of having a secret shared between you and your teachers regarding your perceived orientation and leaving parents in the dark. In addition, today’s children whose brains haven’t fully formed are being taught about sexual orientation and various pronouns. Not only are they stuck in the same cycle of curriculum trials and errors, Covid lockdowns created a learning chasm that we are still attempting to bridge. Today’s children have it even worse than I did in the 1970s. Most recently the idea of abstract ways of teaching math showed up in Everyday Math via the University of Chicago or in Common Core curriculum overall. Eventually, curriculum circles back to the tried and true for a while until the next fad takes over. The pendulum swings once the powers that be decide new ideas aren’t working. If this sounds familiar to parents today, it’s because everything in education ebbs and flows. Thus, in the process, New Math created a generation of us who not only were ill equipped but hated math. As much as my parents tried to help me figure out my homework, it was met with confusion leading my father to reteach me using his way of working out problems. It replaced foundational memorization of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts with a combination of basic skills and theory. Being the youngest of my siblings, I was subjected most to New Math, which ousted the traditional drills and skills approach that had worked for decades. She became the trailblazer for her younger siblings.Īs much as my mother believed in a quality education, by the 1970s, both my parents started to see changes in the school system that weren’t to their liking. To her, education was the one thing that could never be taken from her and the one thing that could prove to her father that merely subsisting on menial jobs would never move the family out of poverty. My mother advocated for education because she was almost denied what most of us take for granted-a high school diploma. Alphabestiary: Animal Poems from A to Z by Jane Yolenĭo you have a favorite? This post contains affiliate links.Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash Note: After originally posted, Liz Magill resigned.ABeCedarios: Mexican Folk Art ABCs in English and Spanish by Cynthia Weill.M Is For Maple: A Canadian Alphabet by Mike Ulmer.A Is for Astronaut: Exploring Space from A to Z by Traci N.The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town by Judy Sierra.Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur.D Is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet by Nancy I.The Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta.The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier.Alphabeep!: A Zipping, Zooming ABC by Debora Pearson.Museum ABC by the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.Flora McDonnell’s ABC by Flora McDonnell.All Aboard!: A Traveling Alphabet by Bill Mayer.The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z! by Steve Martin.Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Anniversary Edition by Bill Martin Jr.Chicka Chicka ABC by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault.“A” Was Once An Apple Pie by Edward Lear and Suse MacDonald.What Pete Ate from A to Z by Marie Kalman.T is for Touchdown: A Football Alphabet by Brad Herzog.O Is for Orca: An Alphabet Book by Andrea Helman.Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming.Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert.A Was an Apple Pie by Eitienne Deslessert.Learn the Alphabet with NorthWest Coast Native Art by Ryan Cranmer (and others).D is for Dancing Dragon: A China Alphabet by Carol Crane.Alligator Alphabet by Stella Blackstone.ABCDinosaurs ny American Museum of Natural History.Want to read our reviews of each book? This list is duplicated with full reviews and photos here Alphabet Book Reviews. There are so many different themes that no matter your child’s interests there should be something here to suit them. They will keep kinds engaged, having fun with letters and making solid connections. A great alphabet book for kids needs to be more than a bunch of flash cards bound together and these books all succeed in being great books that happen to also be alphabet books. ![]() ![]() Below you won’t find every alphabet book we’ve ever reviewed just our top 50. We are very fond of alphabet books not just for their educational value but for their entertainment too.
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