3: Brilliant book for introducing reading to children!
Reading practice does not begin in kindergarten or first grade. Reading environmental print is a child's first exposure to letters, words, and pictures coming together to explain a concept and Hoban does it brilliantly. Her photographs allow children to decipher the world around them via 30 photographs of everyday signs. I applaud Hoban for creating wonderful books for children to be introduced to the concept of reading.
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4: Wonderful for toddlers
We got this book for my first child when she was about a year and a half old, and it became an instant favorite. She loved being read the signs in this book over and over. Astonishingly, she read her first word at about two years old thanks to this book; when we were on a trip in a different state, in a restaurant she'd never seen, she pointed to a sign on the wall and read out "Exit only!" She was reading us "Exit" signs everywhere for months after that, though it was of course a long time before she started reading other words or being able to read phonetically. Now she's a teenager headed for college, I have a second child about a year and a half old, and I'm buying this book for him...
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