These phonics tools are great for teaching beginning reading concepts.
ABC’s See What They Say The three tactile (hands on) steps make this book interactive - like playing a game. The “Learning Is So Fun” alphabet song CD puts 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 for the parent or teacher.
ABC’s and 123’s See How to Trace combines art and imagination to make learning how to write fun and easy. It teaches your child handwriting 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 lower case letters to the upper case letters. 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 lay a strong foundation for beginning 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. It contains 40 Very Short Stories and 20 Short Stories, including “Little Red Hen”, “Gingerbread Man” and “Three Little Pigs.” Because there is no memorization involved in the "Prases..." and "Stories..." books, your child can focus more on reading comprehension.
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 the letters ‘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”. Imletteration® is revolutionizing the way kids learn to read because it magically turns sight words (rule breakers) into phonetic words (words you can sound out). There's nothing else like it! 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 See abc's® reading program! With this environmental series, Tia and Bob help your child build his/her enthusiasm for reading as they 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! They include 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.
