Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words (Step Into Reading, Level 1)
By: Kathryn Heling & Deborah Hembrook
Publication: May 27, 2003 by Random House Books for Young Readers
32 pages
Genre: Children's, My First Reader, Early Reading, Level 1 Readers
Source: Personal Library
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Goodreads description--Mouse makes word play fun!Readers will delight in finding small word hidden within bigger words; for example, when Mouse trips, his pants rip! Silly Mouse! A Step 1 book.
Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words is a fun rhyming book. Anytime you can add in a little game to the reading process, it helps liven the spirits of my reluctant readers. However, I do wish the words were a little more actually hidden on the page so my son could actually search for them. They were way too obvious to be considered real hide-and-seek, and I think that bummed him out alittle. In the beginning, he read the sentences and then re-read the words that were "hidden." But by the end of Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words he'd given up on re-reading the "hidden" words. He thought a couple of the illustrations and sentences were funny. Even though most pages only included one short sentence, it still felt like it took us forever to get through this book. That isn't a reflection of the book or my son's reading level. It's a reflection of him being easily distracted.
Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words uses rhyming words to build phonetic fluency and mastery. The concept of hide-and-seek made my son more excited to read as he loves to conquer a game. However, the game was entirely too easy as the words aren't actually hidden at all. Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words gets 4 Stars. Have you or your child read Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words? What did you think? Let me know!
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