Wikijunior talk:Alphabet

printable version?
I bet many educators or parents would like to be able to print this out to have a hard copy. Might we make a "print version" page with all of the letters below each other? --Sanitized (talk) 17:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It might also be useful to make a version that prints nicely in black and white since not all schools or home schools can print in color, and some photographs need tweaking to read well in black and white. -- anon 19:02, 15 February 2012


 * Since then somebody has linked a "printable version" which links to Wikijunior:Alphabet/All_pages
 * Let's discuss printing issues further over at Wikijunior talk:Alphabet/All pages
 * -- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Slideshow viewing
It really would be more effective if it could be viewed as a slideshow, one image and text-sentence per slide. Is there any software on wikipedia that would allow such viewing?

Also: there are many, many more possibilities for slideshows that could be useful for the classroom; for example, sets of rhyming words, lists of consonant-vowel-consonant words, groups of objects for counting practice, abc books with themes (animals, household items).... M Linley 03:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah I was thinking there could be '<<>>' buttons added as part of the navigation. Think that's do-able in a mediawiki template.
 * Another way to do a slideshow would be to launch a slideshow from a PDF document, if the printable version was better. It would need to have one picture per A4 page
 * -- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 22:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Separation of letters.
I am proposing that each letter should be separated into individual pages to allow the reader (child) to receive the information slowly without consecutively attaining the knowledge. The current layout also poses a problem if it were to be published in paper form. --Herraotic 21:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * DONE by Xxagile back in 2008. The book used to be all on one page on this older revision -- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 22:46, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Categories
It would be good to have, for each letter, one word from each of several categories, like Animals, Machines, Names, etcetera. Stalefries 21:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Pictures
I am moving the pictures here so that i can try to develop the front page. If anyone thinks the pictures should be moved back to the front page, please contact me so that i can do so or you can change it yourself if you know how to. Xxagile (talk) 04:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll blow those away from here now, because it's messing up this discussion page a bit. On a similar topic though, I think we should the following... -- Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 23:20, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

General principles for pictures in this book
Some quality improvements or suggestions can be made in relation to individual pages, on their 'talk page. For example I have just improved the 'Xylophone' photo at Wikijunior:Alphabet/X, and made a comment at Wikijunior talk:Alphabet/X. I've also left a quick comment at Wikijunior talk:Alphabet/O about the photo. Please dive in and discuss individual images in that way!

Some general principles could be discussed here though.

--Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 23:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Photos vs Illustrations/Cartoons
I note that the majority of pictures are photos not cartoon illustrations. In a very young children's book one might expect colourful cartoons, but I can see it's going to be a lot easier to pick out photos from the commons collections. Illustrating this book with cartoons would be fun actually, but I have no idea how we might agree (or otherwise a achieve) a consistent illustrating style. If they are all photos, we should be consistent in that choice. Currently the fish cartoon on: Wikijunior:Alphabet/F seems inconsistent.

--Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 23:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Soon deleted image
I found that the image File:Lion zoo antwerp 1280.jpg, used for Wikijunior:Alphabet/L is about to get deleted. How about this one instead: File:Lion-1.jpg? /Skagedal (discuss • contribs) 14:48, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems a fair choice. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Audio recordings
I recorded some audio clips for each letter and added to each subpage (except B, which turned out wrong; I'll fix this later). I'm not a native English speaker so my pronounciation isn't perfect. Would love to get feedback on exactly how. :) Hope it adds some value anyway. I made this for an educational game I'm working on which will be free software and based on open content. I hope to record with a native English speaker at a later point, if somebody else would do it that would of course be awesome. /Skagedal (discuss • contribs) 23:27, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Cool stuff!
 * Pronunciation is fine. I thought Xylophone sounded too much like an "S". That was my only quibble... that and of course Z is completely wrong, but that's because I'm english not american :-)
 * I guess if these were all in one track then it'd be like an audio book. Is there a standard approach for that in wikibooks?
 * We're missing 'B' and also 'D' too hey? To fill in the gaps... we'd need to User:Skagedal to come back and do those two, or somebody else re-record them all, or somebody fill in the gaps and we just live with some discontinuity of accents/recording style.
 * --Harry Wood (discuss • contribs) 23:58, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Visit this relevant page on reading and writing letters
Wikijunior:Reading and writing Alphabet... though the work is in progress. Please suggest all possible improvements. Alternatively; that format could be merged with all other alphabet-learning pages. RIT RAJARSHI (discuss • contribs) 22:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Next/prev button?
Could you please make a button to got to the next or previous letter because the letters don't fit into my screen and I have to scroll down every time unless I open it on fullscreen. --Red-back spider (discuss • contribs) 09:16, 21 April 2021 (UTC)