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5.0 out of 5 stars
Lets start at the very beginning, a very good place to start, February 1, 2005
This review is from: Animal Antics: Now I'm Reading! (Level 1) (Hardcover)
"Animal Antics" is one of the two Level 1 book sets in the Now I'm Reading! series. It contains ten 10-page books which introduce new readers to short-vowel sounds. They feature colorful, funny stories which take the child through an entire story line while using basic phonics skills. Each story begins with two words, then each page continues to build on those two words thereby giving the child confidence in going on to the next page. The 10 books in this set are: Fat Cat, Hot Dog, Pig Jigs, Rub-a-Dub Cub, Wet Legs, Crab Trap, Frog Cops, Fish Gift, Stuck Duck, and Elk Yelps. Books 1 to 5 (as explained in the Parent Guide which comes with the set) are comprised of mostly three-letter short-vowel words and some four-letter words. They introduce some consonant blends, sight words, and the word ending -s. Books 6 to 10 focus on short-vowel words comprised mostly of four-letter words. They use consonant blends and the beginning or at the end of words, and use additional sight words. Each book comes with 5 stickers (total of 50) to be used as incentives.
An example from the book "Hot Dog" - each sentence is a page:
A dog.
A hot dog.
A hot, hot dog.
A hot dog got on a log.
A hot dog got on a log in the fog.
A hot dog got lost on a log.
A hot dog got lost on a log in the fog.
Sob! Sob!
Stop the log!
A hot dog flops off the log.
My son loves these books and this series is responsible for him learning to read. The skills and confidence he has gained through using these books has taken him on to more advanced levels with great enthusiasm. I highly recommend them!
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Animal Antics.....Level 1 review from a mom, November 19, 2003
This review is from: Animal Antics: Now I'm Reading! (Level 1) (Hardcover)
I bought this set of 10 books for my 4 yr old who is already starting to read. I had already bought 2 sets of the Bob Books. The Bob Books are good, but this set is really good. It even has colored pictures, which the Bob Books do not. This set also comes with stickers that match each story, so that when your child successfully reads a book, he/she can place a sticker on the inside cover showing that he/she has completed it! It would be beneficial for your child to have a good amount of sight words under his/her belt before attempting these books. My son knows around 40 sight words (a, the, and, he, is, it, on, can, yes, no, etc.) It made it a lot easier, because then he just needed to work on sounding out the other words in the book such as: log, fog, dog, hat, pig, wig, etc. I totally recommend this series of books for beginning readers.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Fun!, January 27, 2004
This review is from: Animal Antics: Now I'm Reading! (Level 1) (Hardcover)
Kids and Parents Love it! My kindergarten kid loves this set of books. Not only do the books progress in a logical series, building skills one upon the other, there are "study questions" and a list of skills covered at the back of each book. And, a Parent Guide to assist you in using the program. Font Counts! Importantly, the FONT used in the book corresponds to the letter forms children use when learning to write. (For example, the "a" in the font I'm writing in is not the form used in Kindergarten printing lessons where lower-case "a" looks like a circle stuck to a stick.) The use of a "child-friendly" font enables us to reinforce classroom writing lessons by having our child copy the text of the corresponding "Now I'm Reading -- Animal Antics" book into her note pad. In this way she is building corresponding reading and writing skills at the same time. Recommended Improvement. One opportunity for improving this set does exist --provide an index/inventory in the Parent Guide of the "Skills in this story" list now found at the back of each book. Such an index/inventory up front expedites the process of linking school lessons to the appropriate book. For example, when our child's classwork is focusing on "a,and,to, in, no, is, the" we work with book 5 "Wet Legs" that covers those words. (We made our own index/inventory by copying each of the 10 lists of skills to the back cover of the Parent Guide.)
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