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Adventures of Dod and Cat – Interactive Children’s Book

Join two best friends on big adventures built for early language and literacy success! The Dog and Cat series is a charming collection of children’s books beautifully illustrated in a classic, soft storybook style. Each book follows a lovable beagle named Dog and his clever companion, Cat, as they navigate the world around them—making friends, sharing picnics, and zipping along in their trusty red wagon.

Crafted with intentional language targets, this series is uniquely designed to grow with your child’s emerging communication and reading skills:

Book 1: Dod the Dog – Introduces early foundational speech sounds, specifically targeting the phonological process of Fronting, phonological awareness, and dialogic reading. It builds confidence and engagement for early readers and toddlers just finding their voice.

Book 2: Let’s Go! – Takes the familiar characters and core concepts from the first book and applies them to a high-energy, fast-paced new adventure. This sequel is specifically designed to support generalization skills, helping children carry over their speech, vocabulary, and phonological awareness into new, dynamic contexts.

Perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, early readers, and families looking for high-quality, speech-supportive literature. Packed with rhythm, rhyme, and playful repetition, the Dog and Cat series makes learning to talk and read an absolute joy.

Get ready, get set… Let’s Go!

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Why Rhyming is the Secret Engine of Early Literacy

It is easy to view rhyming as just a fun game we play during storytime, but it is actually one of the earliest indicators of later reading success. Long before a child learns to connect a letter shape to a sound on a page, they have to be able to manipulate sounds in the air.

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Andragogy

How do educators encourage, support, and teach parents to use techniques while reading with their child? Andragogy is a term used to describe how adults learn and is important to use and understand because adults learn differently, have different motivations, and have different levels of experience compared to children.

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Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy is an evidence-based technique that uses books, or forms of literature, to elicit positive emotions, behaviors, and attitudes.

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Pre-Literacy / Emergent Literacy

Pre-literacy skills need to be facilitated in young children by providing strategies and engaging activities to support children as well-developed and functional readers (De Witt & Lessing, 2018, p. 1845). Pre-literacy involves a “set of skills, knowledge and attitudes to formal reading and writing.” Pre-literacy skills mainly focus on developing “emergent writing skills” and “phonological awareness” (De Witt & Lessing, 2018, p. 1846).

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Dialogic Reading

Rhyming helps children develop the skills they need to be successful in reading and spelling. The definition of a rhyme is when two different words end with the same sound.

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Blending Skills

Blending is a strategy used to help children break down words. To blend words together, children use the sounds that match the letter to “sound out” the word. When blending, children are focusing on individual sounds and combining those sounds to make a word.

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Rhyming Skills

Rhyming helps children develop the skills they need to be successful in reading and spelling. The definition of a rhyme is when two different words end with the same sound.

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"Reading and writing float on a sea of talk"

James Britton, educationalist