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Dot and the Feather

12 scenes · 24 talking words · 3 language levels

Tap the glowing spots in every scene to hear the words out loud.

About Dot and the Feather

A morning breeze flips a white feather into the grass. Dot the beetle asks a bee in clover, hurries past flower and fence, loses the feather to a hose gust, finds it in a silver web, then crosses the leaf bridge to a nest on dandelion hill.

What happens, scene by scene

  1. 1Soft White Findfeather · seed
  2. 2Bee Hums Cluebee · clover
  3. 3Petal Scent Trailflower · petal
  4. 4Gate Wind Swirlfence · gate
  5. 5Rock Pause Planrock · stem
  6. 6Gust in the Cavernwatering can · hose
  7. 7Hole by Loglog · hole
  8. 8Silver Web Catchmushroom · web
  9. 9Worm's High Viewworm · bucket
  10. 10Sparkly Shore Steppuddle · drop
  11. 11Across Leaf Bridgeleaf · bridge
  12. 12Nest on Highdandelion · nest

Words your child will hear and say

Every scene hides two tappable pictures. Tap one and it says its word out loud, then it is your child's turn.

Want to practise a specific sound instead? Open Practice in the story toolbar and pick any of the 26 sound decks — Buddy brings five cards from it into this story, without leaving the page.

How to read it together

Start at the right level

Level 1 is single words for early talkers. Level 2 is short phrases. Level 3 is full storybook sentences. Switch any time, even mid-scene — the art stays put and only the language changes.

Let them find the words

Two glowing spots hide in every scene. Tap one, hear the word, then pause and wait — the wait is where your child's turn happens.

Session-ready

Therapist mode mutes the narration and lays out each scene's target words with their speech-sound tags, so a clinician models and elicits every word live.

More stories in The Grass Is a Jungle

Dot and the Feather is one of four stories set in The Grass Is a Jungle. They share the same illustrated world and none of them tells the same tale twice.

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Reviewed by a licensed speech-language pathologist.