How To Teach Slug to Read

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Mama Slug teaches Little Slug how to read.

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Mama Slug teaches Little Slug how to read.

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Children's Literature - Barbara L. Talcroft
Adorable slugs? Isn't that an oxymoron? Not to Pearson, who made the slimy gastropods in Slugs in Love (Marshall Cavendish, 2006) truly charming. Here she collaborates with illustrator Slonim, whose witty acrylic and charcoal illustrations are an integral part of this tale of a literate slug. A boy explains to Mama Slug how to teach Little Slug to read, based, obviously, on his own experiences (and those of Slonim, whose wife taught their four children to read). Rule One says to label the beginner's favorite things, from which we learn that a slug loves corn, beans, carrots, worms, and bugs, all suitably labeled. Picking a good book is important, so Little Slug chooses Rhymes from Mother Slug, climbs slowly up a rock to see it, and confronts "Mary Had a Little Slug." Happy mother and excited child try other strategies, the most amusing of which is learning new vocabulary words like tuffet and curds and whey (it's "Cottage cheese"). Kids just learning to read will have fun recognizing skills they have already mastered, pre-readers will be anticipating the process with enthusiasm; parents can chuckle over pages with special books like The Snail in the Hat and Where the Wild Slugs Are. The oversize illustrations from a slug's perspective make this picture book a wonderful read-aloud, while pointing out that books can show a slug the whole wide world (slugs from other lands are pictured with their stalk eyes protruding from Asian, Russian, and Arab headgear). Young readers who now love to read with slugs will appreciate David Greenberg and Victoria Chase's Slugs (Little, Brown, 1983). Reviewer: Barbara L. Talcroft
School Library Journal
K-Gr 2—This charming and funny manual is also informative for older siblings or parents who are beginning the teaching process themselves. The bits of advice include: "Attach labels to Little Slug's favorite things," "Read out loud to him," "Point out words that repeat," "Sound out words," "Make a vocabulary list," and "Be patient." Everything is made amusing by adding the slug perspective ("underline favorite words in slug slime"). Presented in a combination of bold text and speech bubbles, Pearson's text is simple and appealing. Illustrations are cartoonish with plenty of bug appeal, humor, and a scintilla of grossness. Beyond its cleverness, this is a terrific bookfomercial for READING. The final pages share some of the joys to be found in books in an unpreachy way. And that is no small achievement.—Mary Hazelton, Elementary Schools in Warren & Waldoboro, ME
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780761458050
  • Publisher: Amazon Childrens Publishing
  • Publication date: 2/1/2011
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 123,435
  • Age range: 4 - 7 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.70 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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