Follow the Trail
But she does have some pre-reading skills already: she can get the book the right way up, she can turn pages one at a time (even with a paperback) and she understands that we turn the pages from right to left to follow the story in the correct order. She looks at the pictures, she says some of the things that she can remember from previous reads with an adult or she describes what she can see. She's not even two!
Looking to develop her reading skills further, I love the new releases from the 'Follow the Trail' series by Dawn Siritt and Charlotte Milner for supporting pre-reading and pre-writing skills.
Each is more than just a non-fiction book for little one, though this is valuable in itself as many non-fiction books are very complex for younger readers and these ones are delightfully simple! However, as I say, they are more than just non-fiction, they encourage actual engagement with the pages. As you can see from the pages BookBairn is reading in the photograph above, the first pages feature lots of coloured and raised finger trails for little ones to trace their fingers over. Each page after features an non-fiction subject related to the book - we have the newest releases - 'Minibeasts' and 'Baby Dinosaurs' - so each page has a new species on it. There are some simple facts to read, key vocabulary highlighted in bold and several photographs rather than illustrations, as you would expect from a non-fiction text. But they also feature a glittery, bumpy, shiny trail that spans the double-page from left to right showing little ones the directionality of text and encourages them to 'follow with their finger' as they read or write the trail. Subtly woven into the book little ones won't be able to resist!
There are also extra trails to teach little ones about shapes, colours, matching and sorting. And at the end of the book there is a great finger trail maze to match the appropriate beastie to it's habitat or baby dinosaur zoomed-in features to the image of the baby dinosaur. Great for reinforcing fine motor control and pre-reading/writing skills in very little ones!
BookBairn had these books straight out of the parcel envelopes and has played with them daily ever since! She will be reading by herself in no time! But for the time-being I'm going to enjoy every minute of "mummy's knees" that I can!
Love Mummy and BookBairn xx
*Follow the Trail: Minibeasts and Follow the Trail: Baby Dinosaurs have a publication date of 28th February 2017. Other titles are available from the series now (Baby Animals, Farm, Trucks and Wild Animals).
*DISCLAIMER* We were sent these copies of 'Follow the Trail - Minibeasts' and 'Follow the Trail - Baby Dinosaurs' for review by the publisher. But as always the words and opinions are our own.
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