Keen-to-Read Books
Endearing picture books to help your child become a fluent reader.
STORY TIME TO LIGHT UP YOUNG MINDS
Colourful Picture Books to help build vocabulary, language skills, and fluent readers.
“If the child has never heard the word, the child will never say the word: and if you have neither heard it nor said it, it’s pretty tough to read it or to write it.” - Jim Trelease.
Story Time
- Suitable to read to children, to read together, and for fluent readers (usually 6-9 year olds) to read by themselves.
- They contain a rich vocabulary. Children meet and pick up words such as zoomed, shuddered, chattering, awe. “...when it comes to building rich vocabulary, nothing does it like words that come from print.” - Jim Trelease.
- They also contain lines of rhyme and repetition to enable the emergent and beginner reader to participate.
- They’re absorbing, and therefore great for repeat readings.
In his book, The Read Aloud Handbook (2006 Penguin), Jim Trelease says, “ So many read aloud claims had accumulated in a 30-year period, researchers subjected them to a meta-analysis to see if the concept lived up to its claims. Looking at the impact of frequent household reading to preschoolers, the analysis showed clear positive gains for phonemic awareness, language growth and beginning reading skills... and the earlier or younger the reading began, the better the results. Even when children reach primary grades, research has shown repeat picture book readings increases vocabulary acquisition by 15 to 40 percent, and the learning is relatively permanent...”
She curled up into a ball, closed her eyes, and said to herself,
"I am going to shrink
I am going to shrink
I am going to shrink."
Fiona, hovering above her, waved her magic wand and chanted,
"Fairy Fay, Fairy Fay
bounce like a ball.
Fairy dust, fairy dust
make Fay small."
The Fairy Who Grew Too Big
Contains lines of repetition.
This gets your child flying into reading in the most delightful way.
Overflows with a rich vocabulary.
This helps build this most important area of reading. Research shows children with rich vocabularies do best at school and the best way to build rich vocabularies is through reading books. For instance, children meet vibrant words such as curled up, hovering and chanted.
Contains lines of rhyme.
Children love to chant the rhymes, and in the process they pick up reading skills.
The lines of rhymes and repetition are written in extra large print with generous spacing between the words.
This makes it possible for youngsters, regardless of age and reading level, to join in the fun.
Great value as suits a wide age range.
Little ones can listen to the story and pick up reading skills. As children get more fluent, they’ll want to read the story by themselves.
The Fairy Who Grew Too Big
Fairy Fay grew too big. Is there a magic spell that will make her small again?
Will the spell below work?
A page of text from the book.
NZD $10.50
32 pages. A5 approx (140x200mm)
ISBN 978-1-877538-13-1