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Reading is one of the most important skills children will learn.
Milo’s Birthday Surprise:
It is Monday morning in March and it’s Milo the monkey’s birthday. Milo wants to celebrate with his friends at the park so he decides to ring them. Milo begins to feel really miserable as all of his friends are busy – Sally the snake is skateboarding down a steep slope, Harry the hippopotamus is hiking up the hill to his house. Why doesn’t anyone answer the phone? This is a delightful way of introducing letters and sounds to children using the names of the Milo’s animal friends as a memory jogger.
Becoming aware of the link between sounds and letters is the first step in learning to read. Engaging and bright illustrations prompt children to search for clues about Milo’s birthday surprise
Click here to download an activity for Milo
Why isn’t the book in an a- z sequence?
Alphabetical order is not very important in learning to read. What matters is that children recognize the sounds represented by the letters. Introducing the easiest sounds first helps build success in learning. The ‘m’ sound in the word monkey can be felt on the lips and sustained for a long time. The next sound introduced with Sally the snake is ‘s’ which can also be felt and sustained. We have introduced the vowel sound ‘a’ early because once children are confident with a vowel sound they can start blending sounds together to make words. Then they are on the road to reading.
Other questions answered in the book:
Why don’t you have an animal beginning with the sound ‘x’?
Which sounds are the most difficult for children to learn?
How do I use this book?
What do you do once children know all the sounds?
Take a look inside Milo’s Birthday Surprise
Milo's Alphabet Games
A pack of 80 cards with 10 top literacy games to help children learn the alphabet sounds. Milo's Alphabet Games has 26 a-z letter cards plus 2 picture cards for each letter of the alphabet.
Additional cards have numerous ideas for teaching children to spell more than 200 words. What a great start to literacy learning!
Code MAG Price $24.95
Milo's Birthday Surprise Alphabet Frieze:
A beautifully illustrated a-z frieze to take children on a journey through the alphabet while meeting Milo's alphabet friends. What is Daisy the dog taking to Milo's surprise party? This frieze provides a wonderful opportunity to talk about sounds and letters while having fun.
Code: MAF Price $14.95
Milo's Making Words Flipbook
Flip over alphabet cards to make more than 200 words to spell and read. Milo's flipbook provides a super way of combing reading and spelling with a 'hands-on' literacy activity. It is even more fun creating nonsense words and real words.
Did you know that 'ck' follows a short vowel sound. Use the flipbook to see how many words you can make.
Code MMWF: Price $17.95
Little Learner books
These beautifully illustrated Little Learner books enable children to read using their knowledge of the alphabet. There are 20 books divided into 4 stages. Each stage is carefully sequenced to give children confidence and success.
Each stage has a small number of Heart words - high frequency words that children need to learn by heart.
Milo’s Birthday Surprise Placemat
This laminated placemat with Milo's friends on one side and the plain
letter shapes on the other, provides fun opportunities to talk about letters and sounds.
Code MBSP Price $14.95