Counting at the Store
From the Set Counting Around Town
Going to a store may be a regular occurrence, but each time provides new occasions for learning. In this appealing, motivating book, readers exercise their counting skills and their reading fluency. The bright text is carefully crafted to be at-level and achievable for emerging readers, while colorful photographs provide visual clues and opportunities to count. Readers will come to understand they can use their number sense in a variety of everyday settings, helping them to connect math standards to real-life situations.
SLJ Review of Counting Around Town
Counting around the community is encouraged in this highly visual series. In Counting at the Game, a fictional girl counts to ten at a football game, and the photos supporting the text include numerical labels to help identify things like the end zone. Kids enjoy a climbing wall, seesaws, swings, and more in Counting at the Playground. Each spread includes no more than two sentences with a repetitive sentence structure and the use of high-frequency words. Bright photos support the text with context clues. The simple, clean layouts and interesting subject matter make this a fine series for classroom collections. School and public libraries whose budgets are tight as the year draws to a close may want to cherry-pick the animal-focused titles, which will no doubt see the highest circulation. VERDICT: Counting at the Aquarium and Counting at the Zoo are first purchases for sure; buy the remaining titles if you can swing it.