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Zoé visits the zoo

Zoé visits the zoo

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A fill-in-the-blanks book to learn how to pronounce the Z sound

Zoe loves photography! With Zachary, the zookeeper, she sets off to meet fascinating animals: zebras, gazelles, pink flamingos… Each encounter is an opportunity to learn more about these animals and discover amazing facts!

Designed by a speech-language pathologist from Quebec.

About Us

This playful and colorful fill-in-the-blanks book helps children aged 3 and up improve their pronunciation of the /z/ sound while developing their vocabulary and enjoyment of communication.

Thanks to a repetitive structure and picture clues to insert into the text, the child actively participates in the story, thereby fostering their phonological awareness and motivation to speak.

Offer your child a captivating story where learning to speak well becomes a real pleasure!

Highlights

✨ Created by an experienced speech therapist from Quebec
🎯 Targets the /z/ sound to work on pronunciation in a fun context
🧩 Encourages active participation and language stimulation
🎨 Vivid illustrations and engaging fill-in-the-blank sentences
•📚 Ideal for home, daycare, or speech therapy interventions

For whom?

This book is for children aged 3 to 6 who are learning to pronounce the /z/ sound and who enjoy actively participating in reading.
It is particularly relevant for parents, educators, and professionals who want to stimulate oral language through simple and motivating stories.
It is also very suitable for children who have language or pronunciation challenges and need to practice the /z/ sound in everyday words and sentences.

What the child develops

By reading Zoé visits the zoo with an adult, the child works on:
• pronouncing the /z/ sound in different words and sentences;
• expanding vocabulary related to zoos, animals, and photography;
• phonological awareness, an important skill for learning to read;
• early literacy through connections between images, words, and text;
• narrative skills, by learning to understand, organize, and retell story events.

Technical Data Sheet

Recommended age: 4 years and up
Author: Marie-Claude Dufour
Collection: Histoires à trous
Format: Illustrated children's album – printed book.
Publication date: October 2025
Publisher: Symbolicone
ISBN: 978-2-925207-63-4

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