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|title=Alphabet (My First Bob Books)
|author=Sue Hendra and John R Maslen
|publisher=Scholastic
|date=August 2008
|website=http://www.worldofsuehendra.com/
|summary=The poor man's Hooked On Phonics.
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BOB Books are designed to teach children to read through phonics. I do own several different phonics programmes, and this is one of the best. I feel it is comparable to ''Hooked On Phonics'' at a fraction of the price. Another advantage to these books is that you do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set as you need it, and most sets will take at least one term to complete.
This set of books teaches the alphabet and phonemes. In all honesty, we do have many alphabet books that are more fun. We have ones with pop-ups and all sorts of different styles of illustrations. We have alphabet books with animals, bugs, dinosaurs, zombies, vampires, naughty children and so many other fun topics. I honestly cannot say I have any books that are more effective for teaching the alphabet than these though, and these teach not only letter names, but letter sounds as well through the heavy usage of alliteration and matching illustrations which will quickly encourage the child to associate the letter with the picture, word and sound.
These books are deceptively simple Each ''7'' book has only 12 pages. Most of these will combine two letters, such as ''The AB Book''. A full page is given to each upper case and lower page letter with a very large letter in colour and a simple black and white line drawing. The pictures certainly do not compare to some of the beautiful paintings in my dinosaur ABC books, or skilled paper craft in books like ABC & Do. But while the illustration is the primary object of focus in most books, the readers focus is immediately drawn to the letter in this set. Then as we say the letter, the sound and the word, we noticed the rest of the picture. After each letter, there are two pages with sentences focusing on that letter, such as ''alligators eat apples''. At the end of the book there are two more pages which tie up the short story and repeats a number of words from earlier in the book. Where vowels are featured, the soft vowel sound will be used as this is always the first sound taught in phonetic reading instruction.
Each book has a very limited number of words. The first book has 13 A and B words plus 9 other words. The additional words tend to be very easy, high frequency words such as ''a'' and ''for'', but a few of the featured letter words will be more difficult for a child to read alone. Of course this set is intended to be read to a child, but I think it will be quite useful for early reading by the child as well.
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