All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like learning about rhymes, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories.
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PreSchool-Grade 2-Satisfactory additions to the series, these titles retain the small size that's so easy for beginning readers to manipulate, the limited rhyming vocabulary arranged in short simple sentences, and word lists on the final page. Cowboy Up! denotes a cowboy's day at the rodeo and has illustrations on every page, some of which are cleverly enclosed in lariats. Chairs has simple cartoon illustrations and introduces some basic concepts about the shape and sizes of chairs and where they might be found. In Messy Bessey's Holidays, the child bakes cookies for her friends for Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. A recipe for decorated sugar cookies appears just before the word list at the end. This title is more complicated with twice as many vocabulary words and longer, more varied sentence length, and the rhymes are sometimes uneven.
Christina Dorr, Whitehall City Schools, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
Christina Dorr, Whitehall City Schools, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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Patricia C McKissack is the author of several nonfiction books for children.
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This review is from: Messy Bessey's Holidays (Rookie Readers: Level C) (Library Binding)
Short stories with good color illustrations. Pictures are fair - easy to read, with good informantion in the 5 to 8 year old age group. Short 1 character settings around Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, and New Years. I would recommend this one to K through the 2nd grade levels
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Cookie Fun! - a review of,
This review is from: Messy Bessey's Holidays (Rookie Readers: Level B) (Paperback)
Maybe it's the cookie aspect, but my son (just turned 5) really likes this Rookie Reader book. The story, as you can gather from the title, is about Messy Bessey and the Holidays. It involves making cookies for her friends and neighbors and this time the mess she makes is in the kitchen.
The book touches briefly on the holidays of Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. To that end, Bessey and her mom make cookies in different shapes which they then share out. An example of text follows. Menorahs, candles, fruits, and bells are signs of the holidays. All over, people celebrated in many different ways. Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Chanukah, no matter what the reason, here's a gift from Bess to you to celebrate the season. The book then ends with a recipe for sugar cookies. [My son likes the book so much he makes me read the recipe. Go figure--lol] Four Stars. Can't beat a Primer that promotes cleaning up after oneself. This Messy Bessey is about the winter time holidays. The vocabulary is rather harder in this book than other Bessey's because of the holiday words themselves and it is listed as 2.3 on the Accelerated Reading scale. Or in other words, this book is suitable for a child reading at the [...]level. Harder words include: community, celebrate, hillside, shepherds, wonderful, and working. 123 different words. ~review by Pam T.~
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Cookie Fun! - a review of "Messy Bessey's Holidays",
This review is from: Messy Bessey's Holidays (Rookie Reader) (Paperback)
Maybe it's the cookie aspect, but my son (just turned 5) really likes this Rookie Reader book. The story, as you can gather from the title, is about Messy Bessey and the Holidays. It involves making cookies for her friends and neighbors and this time the mess she makes is in the kitchen.
The book touches briefly on the holidays of Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. To that end, Bessey and her mom make cookies in different shapes which they then share out. An example of text follows. Menorahs, candles, fruits, and bells are signs of the holidays. All over, people celebrated in many different ways. Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Chanukah, no matter what the reason, here's a gift from Bess to you to celebrate the season. The book then ends with a recipe for sugar cookies. [My son likes the book so much he makes me read the recipe. Go figure--lol] Four Stars. Can't beat a Primer that promotes cleaning up after oneself. This Messy Bessey is about the winter time holidays. The vocabulary is rather harder in this book than other Bessey's because of the holiday words themselves and it is listed as 2.3 on the Accelerated Reading scale. Or in other words, this book is suitable for a child reading at the second grade level. Harder words include: community, celebrate, hillside, shepherds, wonderful, and working. 123 different words. ~review by Pam T.~
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First Sentence:
December holidays are great-a time for fun and cheer. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
December holidays are great-a time for fun and cheer. Read the first page New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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