A kindergarten teacher is creating a unit on apples to focus on the letter "A."
Which of the following activities best contributes to students' understanding of the alphabetic principle?
A. Cutting out pictures of objects that begin with "A" and labeling them in a book
B. Creating a collage to be hung in the classroom of pictures of objects that begin with "A"
C. Brainstorming words that begin with the same first letter as each student's name
D. Inventing a song or rhyme to learn how to spell the word "apple"