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Albert, the Apple-eating Appaloosa: Dolch Horse Stories

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This is the story about an appaloosa horse named, Albert. Upon opening Albert seems absolutely terrified of a group of kids who want to ride him, but his owner, Beth manages to calm him down.

The story also touches on a number of subjects and situations children face in today's society.

Author Betsy Lee, uses Dolch words in this small chapter book - helping develop word recognition, increasing the ability for children, as well as adults to read well.

All ages will enjoy this book, which is illustrated by color photos. Included are word search puzzles. For lesson plans visit the author's website.

Revieweved by Betsie

After the basic three book series of A Funny Dolch Work Book, this humorous book is the next step in learning to read the basic Dolch words. It offers beginning readers, or children with reading deficiencies, practice in reading Dolch words with various common suffixes(endings) added to the words. It is a great way to expand a child's basic sight vocabulary to two syllable words. The entire book is devoted to delightful stories about horses. Since children are drawn to stories about animals, and in particular horses, this is a wonderful addition to a child's library. Achieve: A Visual Memory Program is a good program to use in conjunction with this Dolch book for syllabication development.

This is the fourth book in a series of Dolch books by Betsy B. Lee. All four are great. THis one has a collection of short funny horse stories. I guess the only non-Dolch work in the whole book is probably Albert and appaloosa. Big words like appaloosa and palomino don't bother kids especially if they love horses. Well the names of the people aren't Dolch words but they are easy names like Sarah and Linda. This book uses a lot of Dolch words with ed and s on them. Kids need to recognize these forms of the wrds too. Lee's other Dolch books are A Funny Dolch Word Book #1 and #2 and #3. All of these have a few word search puzzles as well. None of the words are backward or upside down.
I really like that. All four books are great!

This is a book for any child who would love to have a horse for a pet. It has practical examples of how real horses act, even very gentle horses. It also has the advantage of being written with sight words making it easy to read. I highly recommend it.

My daughter is an early reader and a horse-lover, so I thought this booklet would be a good match for her. She knows about a hundred sight words, in addition to being able to sound out words. But this book is poorly written and a little too difficult for the audience it's aimed at. The type face is small and the pictures are poor quality. Even I didn't want to read it. I'd advise you to keep looking and not buy this.

I ordered this book because my grandson loves horses and is having trouble with reading. I thought this would be a great book for him to practice his reading. I was so disappointed when the book arrived. The packaging was fine but the text was terrible. The stories were disjointed and made no sense. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I could have returned the book for a refund but chose to keep it and use it as an example of the worst writing I have ever read in a published book.