Itchy’s Alphabet

Itchy’s Alphabet is a primary phonics program designed to teach children alphabet skills, specifically focusing on letter sounds and lower case letter formations. It is a systematic, multi-sensory phonics program with features such as an alphabet songs CD, alphabet games on cards, phonics games on CD, alphabet stickers, reproducible blackline masters, printing practice, automaticity drills, b –d reversal packages, vowel characters, alphabet wall cards and an alphabet book.

The Teaching Guide offers phonics lesson plans with a children’s story, follow-up language arts activities, phonological awareness activities and words to read and spell. This program will meet the needs for kindergarten and beginning first grade phonics programs. It is especially valuable for teaching these beginning phonics skills to special needs children and children with learning disabilities. Children love Itchy – it truly is a ‘kids alphabet program’!

Itchy's Alphabet cards and support products are unique in that they provide children with a visual cue to the letter shape as well as an auditory cue for the letter sound. For example, many of the commercially-made alphabet sets use 'moon' or 'monkey' for the 'm' sound. When children visualize these key words they do not envision the letter 'm'. When children think of our key-word, 'mountains', it immediately reminds them of the formation of the letter 'm' - the one with the mountains.