Corey Bryan

Thanks for the ebook and a chance to review. I have lots of positive remarks: appealing story of a young learner trying to deal with spelling/phonics/decoding; absolutely great illustrations; nice use of the word "magic" which is likely to appeal to all kinds of kids; and the use of a font that enables young learners to recognize the alphabet letters the way we teach them. I teach elementary students in Japan, acquiring English as a foreign language and I know that learning the myriad ways of spelling is key to reading, writing, and enjoying English.… (más)

I received this book in exchange for a review. As a teacher, I like the fact that this admits to children that phonics can be hard. This would be a good introductory book for kindergarten or first graders to teach them what phonics means and give some examples from Rudy. I also think this would be a good book for a unit on perseverance since Rudy works hard to fix his spelling. The pictures were very nicely drawn and fun. I do wish there was slightly more teaching about phonics, but overall I'm very pleased with the book.… (más)