America's Book of Historical Facts

What your students will learn with an Alphabet Book literacy project: Students will become lexicographers and alphabet book designers with expertise in literary or multicontent academic and special domain vocabulary. Their efforts will parallel real-world publishing , research, and publicity/public programming careers as they work together in teams to research letters in alphabet and make the book a collective whole . They will market and publicize the print and e publication of their books with accompanying poster board displays and an oral presentation.

From the start they will be developing the project with a target adult-senior, community group, teacher candidate, or civic/union group in mind or distanced peers and/or students from other types of schools.

So how does producing this visually exciting, content rich, and substantial informational publication address the CCSS Standards for students?

CC Standards for ELA Reading and informational texts 1-8 1.1 Key Ideas and Details 1.2 Quote what the text says/draw inferences from the text 1.3 Determine main ideas of text 1.4 E xplain relationships between 2 or more individuals, events, ideas or concepts in an historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

2. Craft and Structure 2.1 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words in a text 2.2 Contrast structure of two or more ideas in a text.

2.3 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 2.4 D raw on multiple or print digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer quickly to solve a problem efficiently.

2.5 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or to speak.