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Summary: "Obvious Letters" are much more than obvious
Review: "Obvious Letters" by Gisela Hausmann is a thorough and funny tool for children to learn the alphabet.The association with the images with every letter makes it easy for every child to retain the alphabet and have fun at the same time. I wish, I had a book like this when I grew up.
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Summary: Obvious Letters
Review: > I have just order the book Obvious Letters. I am excited about this new
> concept in teaching children how to read. I have applied some of the
> principles with our 3 & 4 year olds in our daycare center. The children
> are excited to read and look forward to learning new words each day!!!
> What a simple yet effective way of teaching!! This is one program that I
> will definitely use on an on-going basis!!
>
> Judy Rose, E.C.E.
> A Child's Secret Garden Daycare
> 412 Fifth Street East
> Cornwall, Ontario
> K6H 2M2
>
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Summary: The best Alphabet Book available
Review: I recently purchased this book, thankfully, in time. I just found out the book is completely sold out and the author is planning on publishing a 2nd edition as soon as she finds a publisher. I hope she finds one, soon, because every parent of a pre-reader and beginning reader should have this book. My child is a visual learner, and this book is the only one of its kind that helps her associate the letter with the word. I plan on buying more copies as soon as they become available for my neice and nephews.
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Summary: The best Alphabet Book available
Review: I recently purchased this book, thankfully, in time. I just found out the book is completely sold out and the author is planning on publishing a 2nd edition as soon as she finds a publisher. I hope she finds one, soon, because every parent of a pre-reader and beginning reader should have this book. My child is a visual learner, and this book is the only one of its kind that helps her associate the letter with the word. I plan on buying more copies as soon as they become available for my neice and nephews.
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Summary: Classroom Lesson Plan
Review: I use "obvious LETTERS" to make a class book. Each child is responsible for a letter. They use their letter to hide in a picture of something that begins with that letter. Our class book is very similar to the book, but ours is bilingual. I have some monolingual Spanish speakers in my classroom, so with their letter they draw it into a picture of a Spanish word. I had one students whose letter was "A" and he drew a picture of un avion (an airplane) and hid the A within the airplane. Another student who had the letter "T" drew una taza (a cup) and used a lower case T to hide inside the cup. What was unique about this particular picture was the she was trying to decide how to hide the T and finally decided that the top part of the "t" would be a straw. These pictures and the book turned out wonderfully. The students just love to read it everyday during D.E.A.R. time.
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Summary: OBVIOUS LETTERS Viewpoint of a preschool headmaster
Review: I would like to take this opportunity to review with you an exciting new children's book. I have put this book into full use at my preschool.The refreshingly new ideas this book brings to the library of available children's books is a much needed help to both parents and teachers alike.I had yet to find a book that presented to young preschool children in a manner that was hands on help for them untill I discovered "OBVIOUS LETTERS"by GISELA HAUSMANN.Any headmaster that doesn't at least take a look at this very usefull tool,are missing an opportunity to a most innovated idea to enable young children to learn the alphabet,while having fun doing it.If ten stars are available,then they schould go to this wonderfull new childern's book. aaa children inamanner yh parents and teachers alike
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Summary: Kids keep coming back for more of this one!
Review: Obvious Letters in a unique & creative approach to an age old preschool dilemma -- learning your ABCs. It draws children in by combining adorable illustrations & word associations (i.e. a b shaped backpack for the letter b). Although Obvious Letters uses some pretty novel words for preschool age kids (yield, razor, handbag), the children I observed reading the book picked them up easily with repeated readings. And that is the best part about Obvious Letters -- kids actually initiate wanting to read it again & again. What higher praise can any children's book receive!
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Summary: Through a preschooler's eyes...
Review: Obvious Letters takes a unique view of the alphabet through a child's understanding. The premise is that children will remember the letters by seeing the alphabet as something familiar to them...the letters actually look like the letters that they represent. Really a wonderful idea! And after a number of e-mails with the author, I found her to be humane, child-centered, and really concerned about the children, parents and teachers who will utilize her book. I look forward to more books by this wonderful author!
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Summary: Brilliant and fun illustrtions but...
Review: There is no shortage of marketing funds to advertise flashy corporate sponsored curriculum in the homeschool market today; consequently, it is easy for the products from small cottage industries to be lost in a maze of brand names, bright packaging, and high price tags. What homeschoolers really want, though, is a product that works. obvious LETTERS by Gisela Hausmann delivers. Instead of using illustrations of popular children's characters that have nothing to do with the alphabet, Haufmann has devised an ingeneous system where each letter is part of an illustration depicting a word beginning with that letter. The illustrations are in black and white except for the featured letter itself, which is colored (in a color which starts with that sound whenever possible). Each letter is pictured in its capital and lowercase form if they are different. If the capital letter is the same as the lowercase, then only one illustration is given. The illustrations chosen by Hausmann show creativity and inspiration, such as the lowercase "i" as the keyhole in a chest, and the associative word being "inside". "O" is an orange oval, and "P" is a pan with the descender as the handle. The illustrations are simple and preschoolers are drawn to the book. They can even enjoy reading it themselves, since the letters and their corresponding associative words are the only text. I can personally testify to the effectiveness of associative illustrations when a child is learning letters. Six years ago our family moved to Japan. Wanting to take advantage of the opportunity, I enrolled in language classes through a cultural exchange program. As an American with no previous knowledge of Japanese, I had to memorize two new alphabets, or syllabaries as they are called in Japan. I found a new respect for children learning the aphabet for the first time. Picturing associative illustrations was of great help in learning the katakana and hiragana, and the same logical associations are the basis for obvious LETTERS. Using the illustrations in obvious LETTERS your child will soon remember the shape of the letters because they are an integral part of each illustration. Even better, Gisela Kaufmann grants limited reproduction rights with the purchase of the book, so you can make copies of each page for your child to color as he learns the letters.
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Summary: Mother's recommendation
Review: This book is a fresh approach to the educational process of teaching alphabet to children. It would benefit a number of different learning styles making it a great early reader book. Simple illustrations and clear associations make this a must read.
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