Smart Phonics is an easy-to-teach 5 level series for elementary school children who are studying English as a foreign language. The books were especially written for students in Asia. The series begins with single letter sounds then adds the short and long vowels and finally the vowel and consonant double letter combinations. This carefully designed step-by-step building approach uses fun writing activity, listening activities, and games to take students through all the phonics they will need to read most English words. Each book includes a combination Audio CD-ROM/CD filled with listening practice and phonics games designed specifically for the phonics introduced in that book.
Smart Phonics is an easy-to-teach 5 level series for elementary school children who are studying English as a foreign language. The books were especially written for students in Asia. The series begins with single letter sounds then adds the short and long vowels and finally the vowel and consonant double letter combinations. This carefully designed step-by-step building approach uses fun writing activity, listening activities, and games to take students through all the phonics they will need to read most English words. Each book includes a combination Audio CD-ROM/CD filled with listening practice and phonics games designed specifically for the phonics introduced in that book.
Patricia Anne “PA” Dolan is an artist, teacher and a storyteller. She lives in Chilliwack B.C. where one day she happened to read “Letters to Santa” in the local newspaper. One letter in particular stood out and tugged at her heart strings. That short letter (see the back cover) inspired her and she began to think about how Santa might get into houses without chimneys. This story is the result.
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them.
The two hours of the Jolly Phonics Videos now available on DVD. Designed for children in the classroom or at home, Inky Mouse shows her friends Snake and Bee how to read and write with the help of 'Phonic', an old computer. The DVD covers all the letter sounds and the five basic skills for reading and writing.