ABC’s See What They Say turns each letter shape into the picture clue for the sound (shown on home page). It uses 3 tactile steps to teach each letter, making the book multiple sensory, fun and interactive. A CD with the song “Learning Is So Fun” has a great alphabet song which helps put the letter name with the picture clue. 123 What Do You See? teaches the numbers 0 – 10 using the same concepts. The loveable characters of Tia and Bob Frog help your child learn. The Learn-a-Long DVD is a great teaching tool where your child can watch and learn both of the above books, plus the song. The See abc’s Alphabet Flash Cards provide a fun way to review the letters and learn the upper case letters. ABC’s See What They Say Instructional DVD.
ABC’s and 123’s See How to Trace teaches your child how to write by drawing the letters, which is a lot more fun that just making lines and circles! So, their writing reinforces their reading and their reading reinforces their writing. A statement helps them connect the cases – upper and lower. For instance, “Capital ‘D’ is the dish for the dog food.” Plus, they get a “magic finger” to write (draw) with.
ABC’s See How to Chop and Blend – a Recipe for Reading teaches the short and long vowels, how to stretch out each sound, and most exciting – how to blend sounds to make words! Your child will learn hundreds of words in this book and lay a strong foundation for reading. Phrases See What They Say provides short, fun phrases which do not have any sight words (rule breakers). Confidence in reading ability is built. Stories See What They Say further increases confidence and love for reading because there are still no frustrating sight words to memorize in order to read these longer stories which uses many two-syllable words now. It contains 40 Very Short Stories and 20 Short Stories, including “Little Red Hen”, “Gingerbread Man” and “Three Little Pigs.”
Imletteration! is the miracle cure for sight words! Similar to what people do for “impersonation”, letters do for “Imletteration” when the letters come to life and borrow each other’s costumes and say each other’s sounds. Did you know ‘a’ and ‘o’ can make 9 different sounds each? Letter ‘e’ normally wears an elephant trunk around it showing that it says /e/ like elephant. But when ‘a’ says ‘e’s sound, it will borrow that elephant costume as in the word “said”. After finishing this book, your child can read anything he/she wants to. He/she won’t have to stick to beginning readers. The Imletteration Instructional DVD goes through the previous four books and has children demonstrating how to use them.
The fun-loving Tia and Bob Frog are back to provide the great reward for finishing the reading program! With this environmental series, Tia and Bob teach your child how to take care of the earth by not littering and instead recycling in Gumfounded, they teach your child how to keep the air clean in Bob Frog Sick of Smog, and they teach how to conserve in Is Bob Frog a Water Hog? The complete text for these books has been imletterated so that your child will be able to read every word by his/herself! Words like: substitute, pollution, creates, dictionary, and many others. Without imletteration, children would have to wait until they were at least 6 or 7 to read these kinds of words.
