Title: HOP ON POP
Author: Dr. Sues
Illustrator: Dr. Sues
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
Publication Date: 02/28/1963
ISBN: 0-394-80029-X
Summary: This
book is a well written decodable book that introduce young children to words
that rhyme, such as Hop and Pop, Up and Pup, Mouse and House, Tall and Small.
The illustrations throughout the book goes along with the book to help younger
kids figure out what the words mean.
Personal Statement:
I personally love this book because it does not follow a story line, but
instead focuses on the relationship between the sounds of the words. This book
is a great book for younger kids, as well as older kids continuing their
reading journey. The book does a great job at introducing short, simple, large
type words on every page and then modeling the words in a sentence. For example,
'UP' 'PUP' Pup is up. The book also does a very
good job at modeling the words in upper and lower case as well, which helps new
readers get used to both forms like 'Go, Dog! Go!' the book introduces spatial
concepts such as height (small, tall), color (red, brown, black), etc. The
drawings are very interesting and bright and give clues to decoding the text.
After reading this book, you will realize that this book Is funny, weird in a
good way and fun to read. I would recommend this book for any child from age 1
and up, especially for children beginning to read at ages 4 or 5.
Rate: 4 out of 5
Dr. Seuss paved the way for the entire decodable genre. Without this particular book, I do not think my son Reid would have ever learned to read. He was having a really hard time struggling with sounding out words. It was ironic, given his name. But every day we did a few pages of Hop on Pop. And every day he got a little bit faster and a little bit more confident as a reader. I still remember the day he could read the entire book himself. His smile was huge! Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
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