92 of 93 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book - but not the same item that Amazon is displaying, June 1, 2005
This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Preschool (Paperback)
I purchased this book from Amazon on 4/24/05. I had read the reviews and looked closer at the item and "inside the book". Just wanted others to be aware that this is not a book with Sesame Street Characters in it. From a previous reviewer years ago it's apparent that Sesame was involved then. Anyway....
This book is excellent! It is 544 pages which are all VERY colorful with lively characters and good detailed objects. My 2 year old has had no trouble identifying what the illustrator is displaying in each picture. All pages are perforated to pull out. My only gripe is that the publisher should have put more thought into the ordering of the pages and activities. For example - if we are working on the color RED today, the book was printed so that the color Red starts on the back page of another color and continues to the following page. So you can never tear out just one page per color for your child to work on.
I love the Introduction section for the parents on what to expect from your 3 yr old and another page for age 4. There is also a personal checklist where you can record the dates your child mastered certain developmental skills (basic skills, reading readiness skills, mathematics skills, fine (small) motor skills and gross (large) motor skills).
From the Table of Contents page...
Basic Concepts and Skills (Colors, Shapes, Sizes, Opposites, Go-Togethers, Same and Different)
Writing Readiness (Tracing dotted lines... Left to Right, Top to Bottom, Slanted & Curved Lines, & Forward and Backward circles)
Reading Readiness (Letters and Letter Sounds, Beginning Sounds, Rhyming Pictures)
Mathematics Readiness (Numbers and Counting 1-10, Next... First, Next, Last, Ordinal Numbers, One to One Correspondence, More and Fewer, Patterns)
Appendix (Manuscript Alphabet & Teaching Skills)
My 2 year old is loving this book! (She was aching to do "homework" like her big sister). This book is really increasing her vocabulary and she is identifying objects and shapes while we are out in public now. Money well spent!
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, but seems like it should go after the K book, December 16, 2005
This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Preschool (Paperback)
This is a great book, but because there are alot of pages that include tracing of words I am personally using this book after I have gone through the Kumon workbooks about upper and lowercase letters. The Kindergarten book in this series has more content and at a higher level, but it does not contain any tracing of words. This seems strange to me, because in Kindergarten is when kids really start learning how to read. Overall the books (Pre-K and K) are definitely worth the investment, I just question the order of the content between the two books and within each book. I ended up going with the School Zone books first and I will do these books afterwards. The School Zone books are definitely at a lower level than these books.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A big jumpstart on kindergarten, December 12, 1999
This review is from: Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Preschool (Paperback)
I used this book with my daughter the year and a half before kindergarten. She enjoyed the characters and exercises. She also felt very comfortable with the learning material in kindergarten, and did extremely well on the tests. I know it is not all attributable to the book, but I had fun going through it with her and she really enjoyed the 'homework' activites with Mom, and I'm certain that is beneficial for any child. I have recently reviewed my daughter's completed workbook and plan on buying one for my preschool-age son.
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