Scholastic s award-winning reading program is now available to pre-readers with the creation of My First Bob BooksTM. Expanding upon the Bob Books method and philosophy, these brand new sets offer children and their parents simple and satisfying tools that lay an important foundation for reading readiness. My First Bob Books:Alphabet helps children match sounds to letters, letters to words, and words to a story through the introduction of uppercase and lowercase letters and initial letter sounds. My First Bob Books:Pre-Reading Skills uses humorous read-aloud stories to introduce spatial, relational and sequencing concepts that kids need in preparation for reading.
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Before reading, children need the foundation skills for reading: learning shapes, recognizing patterns, sorting and learning how to anticipate sequences of events. Strengthening these key building-block skills will make your child s steps into reading easier and more enjoyable. My First Bob Books: Pre-Reading Skills are fun and simple books you read to your child. Each story contains important foundation skills as part of the plot. Inside the front cover you ll discover games to play with your child, discussion ideas and other simple ways to enjoy each story. As always, signature Bob Books quirky humor and silly illustrations mean fun for all. My best wishes for fun, joy and success as your family enters the wonderful world of reading. --From the Author
Before reading, children need the foundation skills for reading: learning shapes, recognizing patterns, sorting and learning how to anticipate sequences of events. Strengthening these key building-block skills will make your child s steps into reading easier and more enjoyable. My First Bob Books: Pre-Reading Skills are fun and simple books you read to your child. Each story contains important foundation skills as part of the plot. Inside the front cover you ll discover games to play with your child, discussion ideas and other simple ways to enjoy each story. As always, signature Bob Books quirky humor and silly illustrations mean fun for all. My best wishes for fun, joy and success as your family enters the wonderful world of reading. --From the Author
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LYNN MASLEN KERTELL is an author, a designer, and the daughter of Bobby and John Maslen, the creators of the BOB Books. Having spent a lifetime surrounded by the values and humour of the Maslen family, Lynn is happy to be carrying on the BOB Books tradition of helping kids love to learn.
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Lynn Maslen Kertell is based in Seattle and writes for the Bob Books series of early readers. The series was founded in the 1970's by her parents Bobby and John Maslen.
Lynn has been involved with the Bob Books from the beginning, starting with paste up and lettering of the first edition. She later spent several years in art and design ventures but returned to the family business as her own daughter was beginning to read.
Her daughter now joins the millions of kids that happily exclaim, "I read the whole book!"®
Lynn lives in Seattle with her daughter, husband, family dog and pet pigeons.
Lynn has been involved with the Bob Books from the beginning, starting with paste up and lettering of the first edition. She later spent several years in art and design ventures but returned to the family business as her own daughter was beginning to read.
Her daughter now joins the millions of kids that happily exclaim, "I read the whole book!"®
Lynn lives in Seattle with her daughter, husband, family dog and pet pigeons.
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84 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pre-Pre-Pre Reading Books,
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This review is from: Pre-Reading Skills (My First Bob Books) (My First Bob Books) (Paperback)
I got these books for my 3-year-old as an introduction to Bob books. His older sister reads the 'real' Bob books, and I thought that he would like to be a 'big kid' with his own Bob books. The good news is that he does like them. We have read each one several times, and he knows the stories and the developmental lessons that he was supposed to cull from the stories.My disappointment with the books stems from my lack of understanding of their content. I thought that they were going to introduce very early phonetic concepts, or something similar. Instead, they do not teach anything about reading, per se. Instead, they teach pre-reading skills -- shape identification (circle, triangle, and square), sequencing (what came first, second, and third), and patterns (circle, square, circle, etc.). These are all very important skills, and they are undoubtedly necessary skills for a reader to possess. That being said, it is a stretch to describe these books as pre-readers. These books would probably be better suited to a 2-year-old or a young 3-year-old.
54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
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Bob books are wonderful,
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This review is from: Pre-Reading Skills (My First Bob Books) (My First Bob Books) (Paperback)
These pre reading skills are super important. Children must know their shapes, sorting, patterning, sequencing, colors etc. BEFORE they begin to read. They can be learned at the same time as they learn letters or before. I teach PreK and many children coming to me don't know these skills. These pre reading books should be introduced at age 2 (often these skills are not). If your child already knows their letters don't buy this set. For children who know letters and sounds get the Bob Books FIRST set. If learning letters get the ABC set.Bob Books are very good for children learning to read. I used these with my 2 children and my students.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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My 5yr old is reading the BOB book sets. He loves them and he is reading very well. My 3yr old was not really interested in watching his brother read. I ordered the Pre-Reading set for my younger son and now he is very excited. He likes having his own books and he is learning shapes, patterns, and sequences while learning to follow a story. He looks forward to reading 'his' books. The characters are younger siblings to the characters in the original BOB book sets. I think this is a good leading in to the older set.
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