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I love this book because this is the first book my child
could read by himself.
At first glance, this book is just the same as any other
simple children's picture books. I bought this book by
accident because it was light and cheap and we were going to
travel.
For some reason, the combination of pictures and the way
each sentence repeats itself makes it a particularly
interesting book for my kid.
After I read it repeatly as a bedtime book for weeks, I
started to show my kid "d-o-g" is "dog." And he
started to read "dog" every time this word shows up.
Then it was within days, he read the whole book. I
knew he memorized most of it because if I pointed to a
particular word and not "dog", he couldn't necessary give a
correct answer. But for a mother who is raising
a delayed kid, the experience was magical and encouraging.
To utilize my child's great interest in this book,
I designed a couple of worksheets for this book. One
worksheet is to link words such as "dog" "pig" and "cat"
that appear in the book to the proper pictures. The
other is to use flashcards that I made based on this book to
make simple sentences, such as "Dog is hot." My kid
now can read all these words and even makes his own
sentences with the cards. He is now at the appropriate
reading level. |
