Encouraging kids in reading is very important to me. A whole new world is opened up when a child learns to read. Today's post is for the early reader, and there will be more in the future. Old, New, Red, Blue by Melissa Lagonegro is part of the Step Into Reading books published by Random House. There are many "early reader" books and book groups out there, but this one is truly an "early reader" type of book. Not only are there favorite characters animating the text, but the author has used both rhyme and vocabulary concepts to enable the young reader to bridge the gap between simple decoding and understanding the print. The use of opposites and pairing the pictures with the print also assist with children making predictions about the words they read, and make the child more successful with reading the story as a whole.
This Train, by Paul Collicut, is a good example of how to increase reading fluency. The author uses repetitive texts ("This train is...."), to solidify word recognition. The author then inserts a new word or short phrase centered around concepts of a train and opposites, again, to expand on the common phrase. The art work further enhances these concepts.
Why we like these books: I like early reader books that really are "early readers." Having 3 boys in my house who like transportation also helped these books be favorites for us. Children learn to read in different ways--some learn through using phonics and some kids need more word-and-concept pairing. Both books use their illustrations to support the text and promote successful reading.
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