Learn English and Hebrew Alphabets with Stories and Pictures

The fundamentals of any phonetic language like English and Hebrew start with sound. We hook sound to letters and letters to words. Then words become pictures, and we don’t think about sounds until we need to sound out a word.

But what if you have difficulty identifying individual sounds so you can easily connect that sound to a letter or letter pattern? What if you need more letter/sound practice and perhaps a different kind of practice than the person who does this efficiently and automatically? You are at a serious disadvantage in school and in life.

MRI imaging shows that as many as 1 in 5 people, usually labeled dyslexics, process language more on the right side of the brain, slowing down the ability to read and spell accurately and fluidly. Often these people have language strengths as well, such as comprehension through stories.

So maybe, just maybe, if dyslexics have a way through stories and pictures to gain more automaticity and speed identifying alphabet letters and sounds, they’ll more quickly catch onto the alphabetic principle and more readily improve reading and spelling.

Both Picturing English and Storybook Hebrew ebook series reinforce English letters and sounds through pictures and stories. For someone who wants to gain proficiency with both alphabets, it may be just what is needed to ease the way. And even if learning the Hebrew alphabet is not needed, the Storybook Hebrew series is great practice for identifying so many of the English alphabet sounds that it contains.

I designed both these ebook series to be sometimes amusing and perhaps thought provoking. I sincerely hope they will help everyone who ventures into these storied tools improve fluency with and mastery of letters and sounds. This ebook contains samples of both series.