A Collection of Children’s Stories

About the Book

Seven entertaining, engaging, and educational stories – “Jilly-Jim-Jolly”, “Queen of Quipella”, “Mr Vincent and His Old Violin”, “Walrus and a Wicked Witch”, “A Xmas Surprise for the Little x!”, “Yippee and Yappee with the Yankees”, and “Zombies in the Zoo” – aim to help children learn the fourth group of sounds: j, qu/q, v, w, x, y, and z. Each story focuses on one sound and provides many words as examples for it. The targeted sounds have been clearly highlighted using different colours to attract the child’s attention. This could increase the child’s later recall of that sound as well as developing the child’s understanding that one letter may sound different in different words. An example for this is how the letter y in the word yacht sounds different from y in the word body. If you enjoy reading these stories and learning the sounds, the other books in this collection will be just as appealing!

About the Author

I originally came from Iran and have lived in UK since May 1998. I have two degrees, BA in English-Farsi translation course obtained from Iran and BSC (honours) in psychology obtained from UK Open University. At present I work as teaching assistant and learning support with an education agency in different primary schools in London. A job that I absolutely love doing. My job has given me the honour to engage and interact with so many children and professional adults in the education system since 2009. As a result of this interaction with children's education, I noticed that when the teachers teach the phonics, they do not have proper interesting stories to read to the children in the classroom and be able to link to the sounds that they teach. This certainly gave me the idea to create this collection of seven volumes. Each Volume consists of five to seven engaging, interesting, and educational stories. Each story focuses on one sound and uses so many words to increase the children's vocabulary. Fortunately, I have had the honour to read the stories from the first and second volume (the ones which have already been published) to so many kids myself and the reaction I have received from them has been so encouraging and heartwarming!