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The Magic Forest Alphabet: Introducing Letter Sounds
The Magic Forest happily invites you to enjoy Introduction to Letter Sounds. A strong foundation in phonics has been proven to support children in learning to read, and this book is designed to assist phonics instruction, at home or in school, by teaching children to correctly associate individual letters with the sounds they make.
Isolating and identifying each individual letter in a word is the beginning. Once your child can correctly associate a sound with each letter of the alphabet, encouraging them to decode a word is the next step to reading.
The Magic Forest is a fun way to introduce these sounds and practice a newly learned skill.
Let's start at the beginning and move forward together!
Isolating and identifying each individual letter in a word is the beginning. Once your child can correctly associate a sound with each letter of the alphabet, encouraging them to decode a word is the next step to reading.
The Magic Forest is a fun way to introduce these sounds and practice a newly learned skill.
Let's start at the beginning and move forward together!
32 pages, Paperback
Published October 18, 2015
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June 2, 2016
This is a wonderful book for introducing young readers to the alphabet and letter sounds. The text is simple and easy to understand. Sadly, phonics is not used much in schools these days, and I believe parents will appreciate being able to supplement their children's learning with this engaging book.
This unbiased review is based upon a copy of the book won through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway program.
This unbiased review is based upon a copy of the book won through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway program.
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February 6, 2016The Magic Forest Alphabet: Introducing Letter Sounds is a wonderful book for young learners. Each page is dedicated to a letter of the alphabet that contains a drawing depicting the word that accompanies the letter.
Reasoning for why this book teaches what it does is explained at the beginning, which is good for those helping youngsters with their letter sounds.
I like that the drawings are going to show themselves in future publishings by Audrey Walsh. I look forward to them, as will any young person learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet.
I highly recommend this book.
Thanks to Goodreads for a copy of this book, and thanks to Audrey for writing it.
Reasoning for why this book teaches what it does is explained at the beginning, which is good for those helping youngsters with their letter sounds.
I like that the drawings are going to show themselves in future publishings by Audrey Walsh. I look forward to them, as will any young person learning the letters and sounds of the alphabet.
I highly recommend this book.
Thanks to Goodreads for a copy of this book, and thanks to Audrey for writing it.
March 25, 2016
What a delightful read – with lovely colorful bright pictures! A GREAT beginning book for children starting with the alphabet! It can be read quickly and just for fun! A great way to really get kids interested in the alphabet – how to say it, how to spell and good old fashion reading!
January 30, 2016
A very good book for learning and teaching children. Excellent illustrations explaining each letter for picture and vowels to sound out for it. I gave this book to my niece and she absolutely loves it. Great way to teach children.
May 17, 2016
I loved the cute little story in this book. I entered to win this book with my daughter in mind at first. She loves books no matter the age and it looked cute. I read it and discovered that she wouldn't enjoy it as much as I thought because it was aimed at kids younger than her. She would love the pictures however, I thought someone might enjoy it more. So I passed this cute little book onto a grandmother I know who has a 3-year-old grandson. So he is going to get to enjoy this story and it hopefully teaches him letter sounds.
Besides that, I found the book enjoyable, the pictures so cute and amazing simple for adults to help their little ones read. I also loved the little letter at the start of the book that explains this book and how to know what letter sound is being said to make to make this an easier to read book. This is just perfect for little kids who are starting to learn to read or those that need to learn their letter sounds.
Besides that, I found the book enjoyable, the pictures so cute and amazing simple for adults to help their little ones read. I also loved the little letter at the start of the book that explains this book and how to know what letter sound is being said to make to make this an easier to read book. This is just perfect for little kids who are starting to learn to read or those that need to learn their letter sounds.
February 6, 2016
The idea behind this book is fabulous! It is very true that children do see more lowercase letters in school then uppercase and a solid knowledge of phonics will help any child learn to read. But I did have some issues with this book. Some of the word/picture choices used to demonstrate letter sounds bothered me. The ones that bothered me the most were the umbrella, should have just been an umbrella, the owl makes it confusing, the rainbow unicorn should have been just a rainbow, x marks the spot should have been an actual word like x-ray, and the zoanthid coral should have been something more realistic like a zebra. But like I said before, I really love the idea behind this book, there needs to be more books like this.
March 27, 2016
I really like how the author has taken the time to explain how to correctly use the book to help children learn the correct letter/sound relationships. As a teacher I can't tell you how many times children show up to school having learned the incorrect sounds, and that leads to all sorts of problems in reading. I bought a copy for my classroom and the children love it (and if you happen to claim Irish heritage, there's a nice little surprise in there for you too).
March 13, 2016
The Magic Forest Alphabet is a delightful book for young children learning their letters. Beautifully illustrated and creatively written, this book is great for reading aloud to young readers. Children (and even adults) will learn new words (I certainly did!). Great job, Audrey!
I received this complimentary book from Goodreads and I'm so glad I did!
I received this complimentary book from Goodreads and I'm so glad I did!
February 10, 2016
Thank you to Audrey Wash and good reads for this book. I have to say I thought it was a little but silly when I herd my husband reading this to my two kids. But, both my husband and my kids really enjoyed it and were repeating the sounds with my husband. It was great. Thanks
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June 6, 2016The Magic Forest Alphabet is an unusual book to introduce letter sounds. The pictures are amazing watercolor paintings. The author uses unusual pictures to teach letter sounds. I found the book refreshing and fun.
March 19, 2016
I won this via a goodreads giveaway. I read this with my 3 year old son and he loved the drawings and especially enjoyed the castle!
February 24, 2016
I would like to start out by saying I wanted to like this book but I did not. I was not in love with the illustrations or the things that the letters were representing. I have worked in libraries for over 10 years and I have read many “alphabet” books and this one doesn’t stand out among them. I am sad to say this one was a miss for me. (I won this book through a goodreads giveaway.)
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