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Alphabet

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This short animation is an energetic romp through the letters of the alphabet, A for Apple, Z for Zebra. None, however, retains the expected form for long, fading, changing at the artist's whim. Appropriate for anyone at the reading-readiness stage, young or old.

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This short animation is an energetic romp through the letters of the alphabet, A for Apple, Z for Zebra. None, however, retains the expected form for long, fading, changing at the artist's whim. Appropriate for anyone at the reading-readiness stage, young or old.

Literature and Language All subjects
  • director
    Eliot Noyes, Jr
  • script
    Eliot Noyes, Jr
  • animation
    Eliot Noyes, Jr
  • producer
    Robert Verrall
  • music
    Pierre F. Brault

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Guide 1
For pre- and emerging readers: the animated drawings of nouns and verbs, beginning with the letters of the alphabet,  encourages imaginative interpretation, vocabulary development and storytelling. Using markers on acetates and photographing their drawings with a digital camera; students can create their own Alphabet film. 

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