Title: What Can I Be?Author: Cari Meister
Illustrator: Matt Phillips
Lauren's Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
What Can I Be? is a story about a little girl who wants to discover who she can be. She goes through her toy chest and tries on different outfits that she finds to be "too scary, too hairy, and too silly." In the end she realizes that she does not need to be anyone else but herself!
This story has a low word count and is a good way to learn how to read. It is also a rhyming book. The book has one or two words on each page that correlates with a specific adjective that is then drawn out with a detailed picture. The concept is also good for children to realize that they are special all by themselves and do not need to change anything about themselves. However, this book is not the best phonics book. There are at least four words that are non-decodable. This makes it harder for children to try and sound out a word.
Publisher: Children's Press
Publication date: 2003
ISBN: 0-516-22876-5
Great observation about the nondecodable words in the text. They may be sight words, such as "the" or "of," that new readers learn at the same time as they are learning phonics and word families. However, if there are too many sight words or too many non decodable words, then they can become easily frustrated.
ReplyDeleteI feel as if rhyming decodable books are great for children to learn how to read because it exposes them to a variety of words. Although, it does sound like there should not be as many nondecodable words.
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