If you’ve got struggling (or emergent ELs) middle school or high school readers, you need an alphabet chart in your classroom. BUT…no teenager wants to see your lame, teddy bear picnic alphabet posters. That would be insulting. Still, they DO need it…

Here’s your age-appropriate solution! A 26-page, printable alphabet chart that uses brand names teens know and like to reinforce letter sounds. “I” is for Instagram. “S” is for Snapchat. You get the idea!

I use the alphabet chart to help play on-the-fly phonemic awareness games. They are ZERO prep, and can be a way to distract the children when they’ve grown restless. Just choose a phoneme (example: “air”), then have the students do a round-robin style rhyme-off (“air,” “fair,” “chair,” “stair,” etc.), while I write the words up on the dry erase board, until someone misses. That person is “out.” The game continues until one person is left. They are the winner. I buy cheap water bottle stickers by the pound on Amazon and use them as prizes; it’s surprisingly motivating. Did I mention the “zero prep” aspect of this time filler meaningful learning opportunity.

You can download the E2E Secondary Alphabet Posters–TEEN-FRIENDLY Alpha Chart free on TpT.

FREE FOR E2E MEMBERS! Join the site to access dozens of high-quality free materials that are for sale in my TpT store for non-members.

You’ll even have access to a template in Canva you can copy and customize if there are local business logos you’d prefer to use.

Keywords: secondary literacy, special education, ELA, accommodated resources, special education, ELL, alphabet chart, literacy, reading support, phonemic awareness