World Famous Comics: Mat Mopped the Moon (Bob Books Learn to Read Activity Book, No 1)
Mat Mopped the Moon (Bob Books Learn to Read Activity Book, No 1)
By: Bobby Lynn Maslen Publisher: Scholastic Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Scholastic Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 32 Publication Date: 1997-04 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Product Description: With this collection of simple activities and stickers, even the youngest readers can learn vowels, consonants and sounds--and have a great time doing it.
Excellent to use BEFORE the Bob Books I decided to start the workbook with my 4 year old daughter, just to see if she had any interest. We worked together and she absolutely LOVED it!! We went through about 3/4 of the book when I wanted to take a break. She really wanted to continue, but we needed to have lunch. After that, she insisted that she wanted to do more, and before we knew it, she had completed the whole work book! We called her grandmother, and over the phone she got to read a whole list of 3 letter words and her grandma was thrilled to get to listen to her sounding out each word. This is a wonderful workbook to do WITH your child to prepare them for the reading they will begin before long. The stickers were okay, but it would be better with the kind that peel off, rather than the tear off and lick type. Besides that, we had a ton of fun, and now my daughter is reading simple words. Hooray!!
My daughter loves it! I just love the Bob Books. My four-year old daughter is already reading because of them! The cute artwork is very appealing to her. I was excited when I found the activity book to go with the Bob Books. Although she can't do it all by herself, she does enjoy doing it with me. Makes her feel like she's doing "school" when her brothers are. So far, she has enjoyed all of the activities, especially the stickers (although I have to lick them!). I think it is good for reinforcing the letter recognition and sounding out the words. I hope they make more workbooks to follow.
Stick with the regular Bob Books My 4 year old is using Siegfried Engelmann's Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons, which she loves. I've started giving her Bob books to read as she is ready for each one, and she loves those too; it's a big thrill for her to be able to read a whole book, and the Bob books manage to put fun and humor into very basic stories. I thought this activity book would be fun too. Unfortunately, it doesn't measure up. It doesn't speak to a consistent reading level like the books do. (It starts with MAT - fine, but by page 3, we're on APPLESAUCE?!?) Therefore, it has none of that "I read it myself!" appeal. The "activities" consist mainly of instructions to circle or underline all occurrences of a given letter on a page, color in an object, or place a sticker in the appropriate box. I expect we'll be able to get our $3 value out of the cute illustrations & captions, but mainly by making up our own activities rather than by doing the suggested busywork.
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