LEVEL 1
Product Image for The Triksy Translator
«
»
Faction: Explorers · Type: Digital · Price: €9.95 (excl tax) · Comes After: Once Upon A Rhyme · Same Spell As: The Noisy Tongues · Phantasy Phonics · Quiz of Phonemes · Phoneme Phinals · Comes Before: Parables of Prestory

The Triksy Translator

Alien creatures landed on our lands They spoke weird words, and waved three hands Nobody understood their language, they seemed offended Until a translator stepped in to help … or so they pretended

This is a fairy tale about the time when aliens landed in the fairy tale forest. They spoke a different language, which made it hard to understand them. Fortunately, there was one animal who claimed to be a “translator”. They could translate between the languages and make us understand what the aliens wanted and why they were destroying our things. Until someone figures out that their so-called translation … might just be a trick with phonemes.

The story is split into 5 short chapters. Each chapter is written to be as self-contained as possible, so you can read one short chapter to your Apprentice(s) at a time. But it’s really one continuous story referencing previous chapters, not five completely separate stories.

These stories are definitely meant to be read out loud. They are about phonemes, after all, which are the sounds that make up words. The final step before Apprentices are ready for the alphabet. This “Translator” applies a trick every time to make it sound like he’s speaking a new language, but in reality, he’s just swapping one phoneme for another …

A fun way to discover and explore the concept!

REMARK! Yes, the actual spelling of the word is tricksy or tricky. We spelled it wrong on purpose because this is a story about phonemes, and how different letters can still create the same sounds when spoken. Also because we really like unique memorable titles that are easily searched, which work better in practice. It’s annoying these days how often search engines (e.g. Google) just change your input to something else entirely that they believe you wanted to search instead, giving vague results.

Continue Exploring

Exhausted this resource? Below is a list of all resources (in this and other factions) around this same topic.

Product Contents

Below is a summary of this product's contents. The actual product might have even more inside, but never less.

  • 5 short stories about phonemes and playing around with them
  • The stories are included as a .pdf file (most suitable for printing) and .epub file (most suitable for ereaders).
  • The PDF has pages in “Half Letter” format (near A5; typical for books), but any computer system should allow printing 2 pages at once on a single A4/Letter page.
  • Bingo Cards (for Apprentices to cross off things that appear as they listen to the story)