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 Annettannette
 
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							| CONFUSABLE LETTERS! 
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			Some of my kindergarten students confuse the letters b, d, p, and q and the numbers 6 and 9.
 Please send any suggestions on creative ways to help them learn to name these items correctly.
 
 THANK YOU!!!!
 
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 ingela
 
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							| Take a look at this: http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/ 
 Choose "literacy" -> "alphabet and sounds" -> "visual aids". You can find the letters b and d, p and q
 (http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/1211-1215/sb1211.html)
 
 
 |  2 Dec 2009     
					
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 Lana.
 
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							| Hmmm.... I have never worked with kids, but I think you �d need to use associations, maybe...   Say, while they write letter b they picture it as looking like a bulldoser or a baseball cap, and then dinosaur with a full belly for d, and then pocket for p, and queen for q.   They would need to see all those pictures in the letters, though.    |  2 Dec 2009     
					
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 wolfy
 
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							| Lana, 
 maybe you should work with kids that �s a good suggestion. |  2 Dec 2009     
					
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