Fish of The Sea /Peces Del Mar by Steven Lioy (myself)
is a Spanish / English beginning reader book. It is full of interesting
pictures of sea life. The short descriptive phrases will help a child
learn to read their native language in addition to the corresponding Spanish /
English.
I wrote this book as a
tool to help children and students learn language. Having grown up in a
semi-bilingual home, where my mom was fluent in Spanish, we communicated in
English. In a quest to learn Spanish, to learn it quickly and enjoyably, I
turned to kids’ books.
This method seems
unconventional; it works well. I started reading books such as Go Dog Go, Are You My Mother?, One Fish Two Fish, and the list goes on. I
was familiar with the story lines already. Through repeated readings of
these books I started to assemble phrases on my own, naturally and without rote
memorization.
That is the goal in the First Steps Series; to help a child
learn words in the form of sentences and phrases. This is how children
learn. We all learned a word and pointed to an object to ask for it.
In fish of the sea you become familiar with pez (fish) and naturally you can build
understanding from there.
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