Alpha-Mania Adventures: The Splitter Critter and the Greedy Pirates: A Segmenting Book. This item is unavailable.Alpha-Mania Adventures: The Splitter Critter and the Greedy Pirates: A Segmenting Book

Alpha-Mania Adventures is an innovative five-book series that ignites imagination and gives pre-reading children the foundation to become successful readers in the future. These exciting and colorful stories are the perfect tools to teach pre-reading skills through play. Storytime at home or in the classroom becomes fun and educational.

Each adventure combines the heroic quests of five spirited kids with phonological awareness and phonics, the first two components necessary to become a good reader.

The Splitter Critter and the Greedy Pirates (Book 4 of 5) practices segmenting. Segmenting involves breaking words apart into smaller parts or individual phonemes. For example, the word map can be segmented into individual sounds: /m/.../a/.../p/.


The story: In this book, a mysterious ship belonging to a group of greedy pirates in search of riches has come ashore on Letter Lagoon. The Alpha-Maniacs quickly hop into action to protect their old friend Slomo the Sloth’s buried treasure. With the help of a goofy new friend, the Splitter Critter, the Alpha-Maniacs create magic by segmenting words into sounds, scaring the greedy pirates away from Letter Lagoon for good!

Every Alpha-Mania Adventures book includes:

• An introduction to phonological awareness and tips to use the book to its maximum benefit
• An exciting story that will charm young audiences
• A Find the Hidden Objects phonics activity embedded in the illustrations
• Bonus Activities related to phonological awareness, phonics, and/or letter formation
• Easy-to-use guides on Letter Sounds and/or Letter Formation

Join the Alpha-Maniacs on their fourth of five phonological pirate adventures with The Splitter Critter and the Greedy Pirates!

Jennifer Makwana is a certified teacher at Ruth Rumack’s Learning Space, an educational support company based in Toronto, Canada. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), a Bachelor of Education, and a diploma in Early Childhood Education. Since 2008, she has instructed and expanded the Alpha-Mania® program at Ruth Rumack’s Learning Space. Jennifer lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. Ruth Rumack is the founder and executive director of education of Ruth Rumack’s Learning Space. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Psychology and a Bachelor of Education. Ruth created the Alpha-Mania® program in 1996 with the aim of introducing emergent readers to the magic and excitement of the alphabet and phonological awareness. This series brings the Alpha-Mania® program to life through the adventures of the Alpha-Maniacs. Ruth lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.