Pup and Hound
By: Susan Hood
Illustrated By: Linda Hendry
Publication: August 1, 2004 by Kids Can Press
32 pages
Genre: Children's, First Readers
Source: Personal Library
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Goodreads description--Follow the farmyard adventures of two lovable dogs in these humorous stories about friendship. With simple, rhyming text and playful illustrations, the Pup and Hound books are perfect for the beginning reader. Hound discovers Pup curled on the ground in need of dinner. Will Hound find a way to make his new friend feel better? This Level 1 first reader contains short stories, simple sentences, easy vocabulary, simple visual clues and lots of repetition.
My reluctant reader (6 years old) took one look at this book and decided he wasn't going to like it. Now, that could very likely have more to do with his mood at the moment than anything to do with this book. He isn't generally interested in reading when he doesn't want to. But once we got past the "I don't want to do this", he got into the story pretty well.
Pup and Hound has both repeated phonetic principles as well as rhyming words. When my son was reading, we were moving slowly enough through the words that I didn't pick up on the rhyming scheme until I looked back on the book to write this review. Both of these work well together to build reading fluency. The repeated sounds and words helps to build memorized words, and I could tell he wasn't sounding out the repeated words each time by the end of the book.
Even though he initially turned his nose up, Pup and Hound ended up grabbing his attention, and even by the end of the book, he was reading much faster than he started. Pup and Hound gets 4 Stars. Have you read Pup and Hound? What did you think? Let me know!
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