Product Description

Dolch sight words should be recognized instantly in order for reading to progress smoothly. This book uses all of the Dolch sight words for second graders and many for first graders.

The delightful stories and poems have these themes: accepting yourself; sharing; caring about others; kindness; being grateful; doing what is right instead of yielding to peer pressure; sharing rather than fighting; telling the truth; being considerate; being careful about strangers; and realizing it is not your fault when someone is abusive.

This book can be used for regular, remedial, or enrichment instruction because the ages of the children are not shown. Most stories only have animal characters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136239 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-16
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

About the Author
The author is a school psychologist and children's book writer who has written children's books about motivation, memory skills, and how to learn colors. She has written Dolch sight word books for first grade, second, and third grades. She has also written A Basic Guide for Writing, Selling, and Promoting Children's Books: Plus Information about Self-Publishing.

Customer Reviews

A Great Book for Beginning Readers
My granddaughter is a beginning reader. I found this book to be a wonderful way for her to learn new words gradually. Once a new word was introduced, it is used throughout the book in other stories. It reminded me of the old Sally, Dick and Jane books that I read in first grade. My granddaughter's favorite story was the one entitled "Under the Can." She squealed with delight when she discovered what was "under the can." The "word find" exercises in the book were fun for my granddaughter also. They were a good way for her to practice finding and reading the new words she had learned in the book.

Excellent Teaching Tool
This Dolch Work Book #3 includes fascinating stories, poems, fables, and word searches that are based on the Dolch Word List, the most commonly used words for beginning readers. Lesson plans and worksheets are offered on the Learning Abilities web site in conjunction with the book. This Dolch Book, which is the third in a series, is an excellent teaching tool for all children who are learning to read, but in particular, for learning disabled children. In her book Learning Disabilities: There is a Cure, educational expert, Addie Cusimano, devotes an entire chapter on the Right Reading Approach. In it she discusses the importance of using a beginning reader that is based on the Dolch sight list.