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Using Augmented Reality to Bring Letters Alive

June 13, 2017 by Mary Amoson 5 Comments

Learning Comes Alive With Letters Alive

Augmented reality is a great way to get spark interest in your little learners. Iย have been using Letters Alive in my classrom for several months. I would love to tell you all about how in love I am with this reading system. But the truth is… it doesn’t matter what I think. My students started using this program with infatuation. They extended their learning with liking. The fell in love with the animation. But the love affair was permanent when the sentence structures started coming together.

Letters Alive uses augmented reality to literally bring Letters Alive in your classroom!ย This means the flat cards actually move, make noises, and come ALIVE on the screen. I saw letters alive this past December at an SDE conference. I knew this was a piece of technology I could use instantly in my classroom and a powerful toolย my students would LOVE to play to learn with it.

Letters Alive Cynthia, Mary, and Faith

Luckily, Letters Alive is a local Georgia company so Cynthia and Faith traveled down to my school and helped me get going on this. Honestly, it is so user friendly I had already played with it and my class was using it. But you never say no to smart, intelligent, and talented ladies come show you cool stuff. my time with them was awesome. They truly believe in create a unique learning experience for students. I appreciate their out of the box approach.

Letters Alive Set UpLetters Alive Set Up

Letters Alive Plus kit comes with the software, 4 section mat, document camera, and cards, like you see pictured above. First, I got a cart to hold my kit on so I could move this station around my room as needed. This portability also allows me to instruct my students with them sitting in front of the board as well as use this station themselves. Here is what my cart looks like. Letters Alive Cart Setup

Letters Alive is Engaging

First, Letters Alive gives your students an instant hook and desireย to build more words and more sentences. Your students will laugh and smile while they are building words and sentences. They will build, sound out, and read more words in a few minutes with this program because they want to!

Letters Alive in Action

Letters Alive Allows Learners to Test out Their IdeasLetters Alive Allows Learners to Test out Their Ideas

Next, here are two students building sentences. You read that right. Letters Aliveย is an awesome learning experience that allows student to play with letters to build words and to use words to build sentences. Putting this in the hands of students allows their imagination to soar and helps them to build concrete knowledge.

Letters Aliveย Isย Self Checks

Letters Alive Is Self Checks
Here are two more friends working on building words together. ย They use initial letters and rhyming families to create words. When they create an actual word, it appears on the top of the screen and the word is read out loud. Here is what the students do with the cards…Letters Alive Cards

and here is what they see on the screens.ย Letters Alive Making Words

Letters Aliveย Grows With Your Learners.

We started using Letters Alive at least once a week as our interactive blending board. Here is a blending board Iย prepped. I pulled out the initial blends we were using for this lesson. Then I used endings for families that we have covered to create read and nonsense words. These cards are not JUST about letters and sound out words, but also great sentence builders. My students also used this systemย during center time.ย Letters Alive is for More than MAKING WORDS

Augmented Reality StorybooksAugmented Reality Storybooks

Finally, I know the price point on this program might be hard for you to get right away. (Looking for funding ideas? I highly suggest trying Donor’s Choose and other grants. I also highly recommend letting your administration SEE Letters Alive in action on their website.) Letters Alive also came up with this FIRST (of many) Augmented Reality Storybooks! They are AMAZING and built for little learners. I can not wait for them to product more of them because I will be grabbing them up instantly.)

Letters Alive is offering you a FREE Augmented Reality Storybook!
Use the code SHARING KINDER as your Coupon Code
when requesting a quote or entering a purchase order
to receive your FREE Augmented Reality Storybook!

I was interviewed and ask to share my actual thoughts about using Augmented Reality in the classroom.
You can read all about my thoughts here in an article for EdTech Digest.

Check out this NEW journal from the makers of Letters alive. Click here.

All the opinions and remarks expressed in this post are original and not paid for my Letters Alive or anyone else. I actually use Letters Alive in my classroom and LOVE it.

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Comments

  1. Kathy says

    June 15, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    Do you have to buy the whole program to get the free book? The web site coupon only good for orders over $700.
    I’m guessing the book only works if you already have the software. It’s not a sample to see how it works?
    I have seen this online and It looks wonderful. But, there is no way I can afford it.

    Reply
    • Mary Amoson says

      June 15, 2017 at 8:33 pm

      I know the expense is great, but I recommend looking into grants and such. That is how I got mine. The book is INDEPENDENT from the software. You can get just the book. I will try to record me using the book to show you how it works. ๐Ÿ™‚ IT IS AWESOME.

      Reply
  2. Laura says

    June 15, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    Letters Alive is sooo awesome. My school bought it for me last year with some special funding. However, I am moving districts this year, which I am really excited about, but I will really miss using this phenomenal system, since my new school doesn’t have it.

    Reply
  3. Melissa Carruthers says

    July 2, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    I am about to buy Letters Alive Plus for my classroom. I have 2 questions: 1. I have read anything about their math program. Have you tried it? What do you think? and 2. Do you know anything about the rugs? Does each individual animal pop up, or does it just have the one alphabet song in the middle of the rug?
    Thank you- I love your great information on everything Kinder!

    Reply
    • Mary Amoson says

      July 14, 2019 at 10:07 pm

      1- I have the math and I like it a lot.
      2. I have the rug and it is cool. You use printable habitat cards to bring the carpet animals to life. ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply

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