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Bob Books

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Author: Bobby Lynn Maslen
Review last updated: 2009
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Bob Books

These sets of beginning readers are phonetically organized with controlled vocabulary, yet the stories are more interesting than many other such readers. There are 12 small books in each set. The sets begin with My First Bob Books: Pre-Reading Skills and My First Bob Books: Alphabet to prepare a child for reading.

The next five sets are the actual readers that will correlate with many phonics programs. Set 1: Beginning Readers concentrates on short-vowel words. The second set of 12 slightly longer books, Set 2: Advancing Beginners, continues with short vowel, consistent words, adding double consonants, blends, endings, some sight words and longer stories. Set 3: Word Families adds longer words and suffixes. Set 4: Compound Words adds sight words and compound words.. Set 5: Long Vowels adds long vowel words.

Illustrations are simple black-and-white line drawings that children can imitate and color, and both the stories and drawings have an appealing child-like character. Teaching instructions are short and simple. These readers will work with any orderly phonics program.

Listen and Read sets each include an instructional audio CD plus four stories from the correlating Bob Books set.

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  • Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers

    Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers

    Paperback,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Bob Books Set 2-Advancing Beginners

    Bob Books Set 2-Advancing Beginners

    Paperback,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Books #5-8 + Cd (Bob Books Set 1 Bind-up)

    Books #5-8 + Cd (Bob Books Set 1 Bind-up)

    Hardcover,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Bob Books Set 4 - Complex Words

    Bob Books Set 4 - Complex Words

    Paperback,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Pre-Reading Skills (My First Bob Books) (My First Bob Books)

    Pre-Reading Skills (My First Bob Books) (My First Bob Books)

    Paperback,Lynn Maslen Kertell

    Books #9-12 + Cd (Bob Books Set 1 Bind-up)

    Books #9-12 + Cd (Bob Books Set 1 Bind-up)

    Hardcover,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Bob Books Set 3- Word Families

    Bob Books Set 3- Word Families

    Paperback,Bobby Lynn Maslen

    Bob Books Set 5- Long Vowels

    Bob Books Set 5- Long Vowels

    Paperback,Bobby Lynn Maslen

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    • Audience: beginning readers
      Religious perspective:
      secular

    Publisher's Info

    • Scholastic Inc.

      c/o Teacher Store Customer Service
      2931 East McCarty Street
      Jefferson City, MO 65101

      800-560-6816
      teacherstore@scholastic.com
      www.scholastic.com