Interactive Reading Books
by Joan Green and Greenhouse Publications
Powerful learning aids to encourage language development, reading, early concepts, direction following, fine motor skills and social communications
Interactive Reading Libraries teach literacy skills for students ages 7 to 12. Library 1 is easier than Library 2. All books use visual strategies to help beginning readers associate pictures with words and follow story lines.
Interactive Reading Books are ready to use. No cutting! No colouring!! No laminating!!!
Each library contains eight laminated, ring-bound books with removable picture cards (5cm square velcro-backed pictures). Most books have 16 pages. The books feature a standard skill sequence:
- picture match
- picture identification
- and picture labelling
Students interact with the books by attaching Velcro backed picture cards to the corresponding text. This encourages non-reading students to participate and succeed in literacy activities.
This library consists of the following eight books:
- What Colour Is It? See sample pages
This book teaches students how to match, identify and label colours. Using 4 picture pages and 12 sentence pages students also learn to read their colour words which are included in simple sentences. (ex: “The apple is red.”)
The colours are also taught by association. (ex: The “apple” is matched to the red square and the “red square” goes on the apple. This way when a student hears the word “red” he can “see” the red apple in his head and remember the colours more easily!) - Action! See sample pages
This Interactive Reading Book teaches action verbs and pronouns while posing and then answering who, what and where questions. (ex: Where can she swim? Answer: She can swim in the pool.)
Ask additional questions to expand the concept being presented. (ex: In the sentence “I can hide in the tunnel”, ask the student to tell you some other places you might hide. In the sentence, “He can throw the bean bags.”, ask the student, “What else can you throw?” etc.) - Sounds Good To Me See sample pages
This book teaches the letters of the alphabet and how they sound at the beginning of words. (ex: The letter D sounds like duh-duh DUCK.) Students match, identify, and label the pictures, then put them on the appropriate square to match the letter with the same beginning sound. (ex: The picture of the “apple” will go next to the letter “A”.) You can also ask the students questions that they can answer verbally or by pointing to the correct picture. (ex: What do you use when it rains? Answer: umbrella, etc.) - I Go to School See sample pages
I Go To School uses the vocabulary and activities you might find in a typical school day. Using 4 picture pages and 12 sentence pages, the pictures in this book resemble a visual schedule. Aside from matching, identifying, labelling, creating sentences and learning to read, the students can also use the pictures to answer simple questions. If the student is verbal he can respond verbally, if non-verbal he can point to a picture. (ex: What do you do with a pencil? Answer: Write) - The Ups and Downs of Opposites See sample pages
In the ‘Ups and Downs of Opposites’, two sentences on each page give examples of pairs of opposites. (ex: The dishes are dirty. The clothes are clean.)
Students match the pictures, identify, and label them. They then put the appropriate pictures and words together. (ex: Dishes with dirty, clothes with clean, etc).
Students read the sentences with the pictures, then without the pictures, and finally with all the sentences mixed up to make sure students are truly reading. Another fun activity is to take one picture of each set, (ex. keep the “clean” card and put the “dirty” card away) then put the cards face down. Have the child randomly pick up a card, label it and then tell you the opposite. The pictures represent examples of opposites. You can also ask the students to give you other examples of the same concept.(ex. The nut is hard. The feather is soft. Can you tell me something else that is hard? Soft?) - Things I Do at Home See sample pages
This book uses the vocabulary and activities that might make-up a typical day at home as a basis for the reading activities. It also contains 4 picture pages and 12 sentence pages where students work on matching, identifying, and labelling pictures. Upon completion of those activities students then use the pictures as a visual aid to complete simple sentences. Students then read the sentences with and without the pictures as they become better readers, finally mixing-up the sentence order to make sure they are really reading and not just memorising the sentence order. Like in, ‘I Go To School’, pictures can also be used to answer simple functional questions. (ex: Where do you go when you are tired? Answer: To bed!) - How Do I Feel? See sample pages
Children learn to identify pictures of emotions in this book. Sentences such as, “I feel ________ when I do a good job,” allow the students to label their feelings. (There are no “correct” answers.)
Open-ended questions at the back of the book allow teachers, therapists, parents or children to make up their own sentences. Even if a student is non-verbal or doesn’t speak English, once they can identify the pictures, you can read the sentence and have them give you or point to the picture that labels their emotion. Another fun activity and a means of assessing a students emotions is to put the pictures face down and have students pick a picture. Ask them to give you an example of what might make them feel that way. (ex: A student picks a card that says, “excited”, ask the student to tell you something that would make them feel excited.) - How Many? See sample pages
This book teaches students to match, identify, label and sequence numbers 1-12. There are 4 picture pages and 12 sentence pages from which students learn to read number words one through twelve and simple nouns (ex: six suns). Quantity concepts are taught by matching number to picture and picture to number. (ex: Have the student put the number “2” card on the picture that has 2 “shoes” or the student picks a picture card, counts the items and places it on the appropriate number card.) Simple math activities can also be performed. (ex: Using the picture cards: 2 shoes + 3 pigs= ? Answer: the number card 5) or (ex. Using the number cards: 3 + 4=? Answer: the student finds the picture card of 7 balloons)
This library consists of the following eight books:
- Meet the Word Family See sample pages
Exploring word families has never been more fun! Students seek out members of the same word family on each page and attach the 3 correct answers to the appropriate squares on the sentence page. Like all the other Interactive Reading Books you start with matching, identifying and labelling of objects followed by reading sentences with pictures, without pictures and in random order. How many other members of a word family can you name? - What Happened and Why? See sample pages
In this book students are asked to make inferences about what’s happening in the wonderful pictures drawn by Linda Comerford. Each sentence page poses a “what?” or “where” question and then answers it. (ex.) “What did she bake?”
“She baked the cookies.”
Each page ends with the question “why?” If a student truly understands what’s happened in each picture, he can give an appropriate answer to the question “why?” - What’s It For? See sample pages
Function of objects and categorising is the main thrust of this new book. Students are asked a question at the top of each sentence page like (Ex.) “Where did I sit?”
Students search for pictures of 3 different objects that they can sit on and attach them to the appropriate squares.
(Answer) “I sat on a couch.”
“I sat on a bench.”
“I sat on a chair.”
A couch, a bench and a chair are all types of ______? Great fun! - Pigs in Space See sample pages
Students attach 3 picture/symbol cards per page that illustrate a sentence using an animal’s name, a preposition and rhyming word. (Ex.) “The cat is on the mat!”
A picture of the completed sentence appears on the back of every sentence page. This book is a fun way to help students learn the concepts of “on” “behind” “in” “next to” etc.Great for new readers!
- What Do I Say? See sample pages
Appropriate responses to common, everyday social conversation and situations is the main focus of this book. (Ex.) Someone says, “You look nice today.” What do I say? (answer) “Thank you!”
By attaching a picture representation of an appropriate response to different questions or situations, students begin to learn what might be an appropriate response in those situations. Are there other equally appropriate responses? - Who’s on First? See sample pages
The sentences and picture illustrations in this book provide a sequence of events that students are asked to put in order of occurence.
What happened first?
What happened next?
What happened last?
To get the correct answers a student must be able to identify what each picture depicts and in what sequence the events take place.
(Ex.) First: She is running the race.
Next: She is crossing the finish line.
Last: She is getting an award. - What Do I Do? See sample pages
Appropriate school behaviours are very difficult for some students to learn. By knowing what is expected of them at school young learners are more apt to enjoy the school environment and therefore be better students. The first sentence on each page expresses a need. (Ex.) “I need to go to the bathroom.” What do I do? (Answer) “I ask the teacher if I may go.”
“I come right back to the class when I am done.”
This book is a must for pre-schoolers and kindergarteners! - I Have Feelings, Too! See sample pages
This Interactive Reading Book by Joan Green and Linda Comerford is the result of requests from users of the highly-regarded, “How Do I Feel?”
The difference here is that “I Have Feelings, Too!” uses pictures and sentences apropos for teens and adults. No “kiddy” pictures!
Interactive Reading Software (available separately) reads the books aloud with highlighted text and lets students click on any word for identification. It features picture-to-picture and picture-to-word matching exercises with a speech recording option. An easy-to-use management system lets you select books for each student and stores student performance results. The software is touch screen and single switch compatible.
Library 1 and 2 available separately or together. Save money and buy a complete set of Books and Software.
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Interactive Reading Books is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Primary
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
Interactive Reading Books is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Literacy
- Communication
- Numeracy
- SOSE
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