Activities/IKnowMyABCs

About I Know My ABCs

I Know My ABCs is an activity for introducing the Spanish alphabet. It displays letters and images and associated sound files, such as 'A as in ave'. There are four modes:

1. click on the letter to hear its name
2. click on the picture to hear the name of the first letter in the word represented by the picture
3. hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding letter
4. hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding picture

(Also see AEIOU, I Can Read, and Letter Match)

Where to get I Know My ABCs

TheI Know My ABCs activity is available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: I Know My ABCs

The source code is available on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.

Using I Know My ABCs

• 

  letter game

• 

  picture game

Toolbars

Activity toolbar

change the activity name; add notes to the Sugar Journal

Letter mode

listen to letter names

Picture mode

listen to letter names associated with pictures

Find the letter 1

hear a letter spoken and then find it

Find the letter 2

hear a word spoken and then find the first letter

Stop button

exit the activity

Learning with I Know My ABCs

While far from contructionist, this activity does provide a mechanism for learning the alphabet.

Modifying I Know My ABCs

As of Version 1, only a Spanish version is included. In order to add other languages, we need:

• audio recordings of the letter names
• audio recordings of the picture names
• perhaps additional pictures, in order ensure there is a picture for each letter of the alphabet

There is a language-specific database file maintained in ./lessons/??/alphabet.csv where ?? is the 2-digit language code. The format of the CSV file is:

letter	word	color (#RRGGBB)	image file	sound file (image)	sound file (letter)
R	(r)atón	#F08020	raton.png	raton.ogg	r.ogg

Extending I Know My ABCs

It would, of course, be fun to let the learner add their own pictures and sound recordings.

Where to report problems

You are welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/IKnowMyABCs page.

Credits

I Know My ABCs was written and is maintained by User:Walter. He was inspired in part by the work of Maria Perez, Fundación Zamora Terán