This current edition of The Story, Song, And Action Book includes 91 detailed, easy to follow lesson plans and 91 review/extension lessons that introduce and reinforce the 45 Animated-Alphabet™ characters and their sounds. Each character and sound is introduced in association with suggested literature that the teacher reads aloud to the students. After the introduction of each alphabet character, the students learn to perform a gesture from the character’s story while producing the character’s sound (painting for the sound of “P,” pointing up to Uncle Upton for the sound of short “U,” rowing a boat with Old Joe Crow for the sound of long “O,” and hanging from Arnie Aardvark’s high bar with one arm for the sound of “AR”). Students then gesture and sing along with songs that retell the alphabet characters’ stories to the tunes of traditional children’s songs.