Spectrum Math, Grade K Book

The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book is written by Lisa Campbell Ernst. This book helps to teach letters to young students or even ELL students. Each page contains a letter in the alphabet, first starting with A and ending at the end of the book with Z. As you look at each letter, there are 4 sentences on each page of what the letter could be. By looking at the letter from different views, like turning the book left or right or upside down, the letter makes a different picture that is explained below each view. For example the letter J makes an elephant trunk when turned left and a candy cane when it is upside down.
This book is a great book for young students in pre-kindergarten to about 1st or 2nd grade. The book could also help students that are ELL's. The book can help students to learn their letters and use their imaginations when looking at the letters from different angles. As a teacher, I would read this book aloud and do an activity to follow. Depending on the grade level, I would have the students use the letters of their own name and describe what they saw in each of the letters. I would have the students write each of the letters of their name on separate pieces of paper and after they wrote the four descriptions of each letter, the students would make their letter papers into their own book of their name. I would highly encourage any teacher to use this book when teaching young children because it can help to spark their imagination.