Acuarela Alphabet Cards and Poster:
Acuarela’s original alphabet cards, created in collaboration with award-winning illustrator Luis San Vicente, draw upon research in English and Spanish to supercharge bilingual alphabet learning.
Each Kindergarten set contains 54 cards:
Complete alphabet (including ñ, of course, and separate letter cards for letters that don’t share a sound across languages)
Basic digraphs ch, ll, sh, th, wh
Design features:
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Cognate Connections:
We use cognates like Fuego/Fire and Montaña/Mountain as keywords to streamline letter learning across languages, while using distinct keywords for letter-sound correspondences that are different (such as Ave and Apple), priming learners for crosslinguistic connections and accelerating letter learning.
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Embedded Mnemonics:
Leading researchers from Fernando Cuetos Vega to Linnea Ehri have studied the power of embedded mnemonics, illustrations that connect the shape of a letter to a word with that sound. Our “m” card is shaped like a mountain and our “i” is shaped like an isla. These connections support letter learning in both Spanish and English!
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Engaging Illustrations:
Beautiful, original illustrations by Luis San Vicente make our cards and posters engaging for learners.
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Metalinguistic Color Coding:
Our cards are coded red for Spanish, blue for English, and purple for letters that share a common sound across languages. This makes them easy to use at a glance, and helps to support learners in developing their own metalinguistic awareness.
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