The alphabet seems like such a simple thing. As children we learn the letters and their sounds from mom and dad and our siblings, if we have them. It doesn't seem like much, just a part of growing up, but there are some who have turned the alphabet into science. The "Alphabet Effect" is a collection of hypotheses in communication theory which state that phonetic writing, and alphabetic scripts in particular, have served to "promote and encourage the cognitive skills of abstraction, analysis, coding, decoding, and classification". Did you realize you were doing all that those many years ago when you first learned how to write your name?!
Interesting facts one doesn't usually analyze. Thanks for the education, Ann. I remember Sesame Street was quite instrumental in teaching my kids the alphabet. They were all reading by age 3 ;-) Who knew the background though?
@cimes1 Thanks Carole! I started out with just the intention of taking the pictures. But when I went to post the A, I thought it was pretty lame to write, "This is an A"! Hence the additional task of writing some entertaining comment about the alphabet each day. Yup- went a little over the top on this one!
@dmariewms Thanks Marie (the pictures aren't over the top- the commentary is!) @prttblues Thanks Bev! I will be going through information withdrawal after this challenge is done. @inertie Thanks Inertia- if I'm understanding this theory correctly, you don't realize this happens, it just does. @kerristephens Thanks Kerri! It's part of a rocking chair my grandmother gave me many years ago. It was varnished and one day I took some paint stripper to it and discovered this beautiful wood grain underneath.
i was?!?! no wonder i've been having migraine headaches since i was little! :-D my mother made me learn how to read and write as soon as i turned three. she was kinda lax with the next four kids though. i like your P and i'm still hunting for mine.
I know it sounds rather complicated but actually it's just a fancy way of saying when you learn to write your name, learning the letters actually help you develop the ability to recognize things, identify them and then understand them. Simply put you learn that letters mean sounds and those sounds put together mean words and those words identify things. Now it sounds boring.
@mrssmith Thanks Carla! @digitalrn Thanks Rick! @sarasdadandmom Thanks Terry! @alia_801 Thanks Alia! It's been an interesting learning experience for me. Not initially what I set out to do with this challenge, but a side benefit I hadn't anticipated!
@prttblues Thanks Bev! I will be going through information withdrawal after this challenge is done.
@inertie Thanks Inertia- if I'm understanding this theory correctly, you don't realize this happens, it just does.
@kerristephens Thanks Kerri! It's part of a rocking chair my grandmother gave me many years ago. It was varnished and one day I took some paint stripper to it and discovered this beautiful wood grain underneath.
@karenann Thank you Karenann!
I know it sounds rather complicated but actually it's just a fancy way of saying when you learn to write your name, learning the letters actually help you develop the ability to recognize things, identify them and then understand them. Simply put you learn that letters mean sounds and those sounds put together mean words and those words identify things. Now it sounds boring.
@digitalrn Thanks Rick!
@sarasdadandmom Thanks Terry!
@alia_801 Thanks Alia! It's been an interesting learning experience for me. Not initially what I set out to do with this challenge, but a side benefit I hadn't anticipated!