By Mary-Frances Stuff

The Alphabet March

The Alphabet

Can you help the soldiers get into the correct marching order?

Written by Mary-Frances Stuff

Illustrations by Mary-Frances Stuff

March

Objectives:

1) Understand How To Put Words Into Alphabetical Order.

2) Be Able To Read Words Included In Book

Standard:

1.RF.2.4: Learn And Apply Knowledge Of Alphabetical Order.

Reading Level: First Grade, Kindergarten

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Mary-Frances Stuff was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up she

enjoyed competing on her local and high school swim team, cheerleading,having fun with friends and family,

participating in clubs such as Best Buddies, teaching

swim lessons and lifeguard-ing. While she was writing The Alphabet March she

was attending Indiana Uni-versity where she studied

elementary education. She has always loved to read and is very excited for the

opportunity to share her love of reading and teaching children through this fun

ebook.

IntroductionThis story follows an army of words and their journey of figuring out how to go into correct alphabetical order so they can march into battle. Use

the words and activities in this ebook to help the Captain guide his men

and women to success!

About The Author

Instructions On How To Use This Ebook.

1) When you see a speech bubble (they look like the bubble in this picture)

That means what ever object the arrow on the bubble is pointing to is speaking. Read the speech bubbles on the page from left to right so you can understand the conversation.

2) On page six there is a video. Read the speech bubbles then click on the video for it to play. To stop the video just click on the video again.

3) When you see a little box with some questions, that is a short quiz. Read the questions and answers carefully and pick the answer you think is right. Make sure to click “Check Answer” at the bottom of the box to make sure your answer is correct. If it not correct, don’t worry, just try again.

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USERGUIDE

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This is Captain A. It is his job to make sure all of the soldiers get into their correct order

before going into battle. This next group of recruits have been having a hard time

understanding what the correct order of the line up is. That is

why Captain A needs your help to get them in their correct

order! Let’s get started, there is no time to lose!

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Only watch until the end of the first song!

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Pick which answer you think is correct. Do not forget to check your answer to see if it is right!

Check Answer

What do you think we do when two words both have the same first letter?

A. Give up with Alphabetical order.

B. Just order them however you want.

C. Order the words using each of the words’ second letters.

D. Order the words using both of the words’ last letters.

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Use what we just learned about alphabetical order to answer all of the questions correctly to get the

soldiers into the right order.

Check Answer

Question 6 of 6

Which word would go sixth if placing the words in alphabetical order?

A. From

B. Jump

C. First

D. Nice

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Congratulations, you did it! Thanks to you, the soldiers know the correct order they need to be in so they can

do their job!

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You have been doing GREAT! Captain A is very impressed with your wonderful skills. Let’s review what we just learned about

alphabetical order and show off our knowledge!

Check Answer

Question 1 of 2

What is the first thing we do while putting words into alphabetical order?

A. Scramble the words up

B. Arrange the words by where their first letters are in the alphabet

C. I do not know

D. All of the above

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WAY TO GO!Your knowledge about alphabetical order

is very impressive. You should be so proud!

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Citations:

"Alphabet Song." WapBOM.Com. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2014.