Sono
letter sounds — each letter makes a sound you can say
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As evening came, Sono and the sparrow sang their favorite sounds up to the first stars — /s/, /b/, /m/, /t/ — soft and clear.
The LetterTots ensemble
Sono is part of LetterTots's distributed-narrative cast. Each character embodies a different curricular primitive; together they teach the full subject.
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Kea
Letter-NAME knowledge (hero) — a parrot who says the name of each printed letter ('that's a B'); naming printed letters IS the #1 early reading predictor
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Margo
Print awareness — an inchworm who follows the page left-to-right, word by word; tracking print IS knowing print carries meaning
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Serif
Letter-shape discrimination — a mouse who matches same-shaped letters and tells look-alikes apart (b vs d); discriminating forms IS visual letter knowledge
