How did Bob Books get their name?īob Books came about as a result of teacher Bobby Lynn Maslen’s careful attention to the specific needs of children learning to read for the very first time. Because the books meet children at the right level, parents are often amazed at how quickly their child is able to sound out words when reading their first Bob Books. The award-winning beginning reader book sets start slowly and progress from books with three letter words, to books with more than one sentence per page. How Does it Work?īob Books are designed to give young children the tools to cross from learning letters to reading words. Parents and teachers keep coming back to this series because the clean layout, short words, and simple phonics make learning to read a fun and natural step for children. Each Bob Books set is packaged with 12 books. Bob Books foster success, confidence, and a love of books in children that are learning to read. (The sight words are an example of something a child must memorize since they often aren’t decodable and therefore a time when I do endorse flash cards.Check out a Bob Books set and begin your child’s journey to reading books independently! What are Bob Books?īob Books is a true first reader series, designed to make helping your child learn to read simple and straightforward. Plus they come with two-sided, sight word flash cards. These books use the common sight words, three new sight words are introduced in each book. I wondered if the illustrations would be a turn-off for JJ but she liked them - and LOVED them on the iPad because reading the word correctly meant the pictures got colored in.Įach set of books includes hints for teaching your child to read and ideas for the specific set. The illustrations are line drawings with only a few splashes of one color per picture. Have you seen Bob Books? Physically, they’re small. I liked that the last pages of each book tell you what the book introduced, for example in Cat and Mouse from Set 4, some of the new concepts listed are: “blends: sn – snap, th – that, st – stop, lp – help, ck – back.” I really liked the Bob Books and how it made reading accessible for JJ and me. * Also, I made her a set of sight-word flashcards that she didn’t know on key rings and we reviewed all the others she had learned and added a new one each day. We worked on using her finger to track – she hated that – and decoding. We started with Bob Books Set 3, Word Families.Įvery day she read two Bob Books books to me. So, when Bob Books asked if I wanted to try their early reading sets, I gladly agreed, hoping their books would give me a place to start with JJ for our reading time at home. But, I really should have been doing something at home besides just reading aloud to her. Having read enough research on learning disabilities caused by pushing academics at early ages, I didn’t want to push her until she was out of the worksheet environment and showed an interest in reading. However, in my defense, one of the reasons, besides just sucking as a mom, was my worry about pushing her too fast, too soon. Not when it’s not practiced or reinforced – by me or the school.(Duh, right?) I knew better. We had done our sight word wall for a few months, I thought she knew them. I should have been keeping up, you’re right. Now you’re wondering why I didn’t know this – either about her level or the sight words. The expert game me a sight word list, and a book and encouraged me to practice with JJ at home. When I asked a trusted reading expert to assess JJ in reading and the results shocked me - JJ was at a preschool reading level and didn’t know half the kindergarten sight words. As you know, JJ is in kindergarten and I’ve been frustrated with h er school’s lack of differentiation and reliance upon worksheets during reading time. I couldn’t believe how little JJ could read.
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