Valerie Wyatt

{my thoughts} – This book is about changing one word into another. It is based on a game called word ladders. I think this book is well thought out and the illustrations help to make the word ladders make sense to the individual reading. It also teaches children another game in which they can play alone or with a friend that helps to improve their academic skills in terms of reading, writing and spelling.

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How to build your own country is a children’s book that is written directly to children about how they can create their own country in their imagination, a bedroom, a backyard or a classroom. This book has step by step rules on how to properly build your own country including: flags, mottos, laws, population, government, constitution, money, and so on. It also has fun interesting facts about when and what other countries in the world may do.

"Boy Meets Dog" is an excellent book to have fun with word work and word latters in the classroom. The illustrations are well done and make the book fun to share with a young audience. This book would be great as an interactive read aloud to get students thinking about what letter sounds are changing and what each word becomes as a letter is changed.