Go, Go, Go
By: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publication: September 1, 2004 by Spotlight
32 pages
Genre: Children's, Level-1 Readers, Early Reading
Source: Personal Library
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Goodreads description--A collection of reissued stories with simple vocabulary featuring Dick, Jane, and other familiar characters.
I've mentioned before that many of the Step-1 or Level-1 readers we have are published by Scholastic or Random House. They typically consist of 32 pages with one or two short sentences per page or opening. Go, Go, Go is a Read with Dick and Jane book originally published in 1956s. And well, things have changed a good bit since then. This book is 32 pages, but each page is filled with multiple sentences--sometimes up to 7 sentences per page. And while this isn't an abundance, my now 7-year-old gets quickly overwhelmed when he sees paragraphs or what is to him many words on one page. He intended to read this book in parts, like half now and half another day. But I kind of tricked him into reading the entire thing in one sitting--which he is completely capable of.
Go, Go, Go is filled with repetitive words and phrases. The stories don't rhyme necessarily, but they do promote mastery. You can tell by the words used in the book as well as the illustrations that this was written many years ago. But I don't think newer is always better. If this is the level-1 readers of 1956, our 32 pages with 2 sentences a page seems a little piddly.
Go, Go, Go gets 4 Stars. I liked that many of the same words and phrases were used throughout the book to promote mastery. And I also liked that this book was a bit more of a challenge to my son who gets easily overwhelmed. It wasn't the words themselves that were challenging, but simply seeing so many words on one page was the challenge. Have you or your child read Go, Go, Go? What did you think? Let me know!
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