Fall 2024
I Spot Squares
From the Set I Spot Shapes!
Squares are everywhere in our daily lives, and it's easy for young learners to spot them. From road signs telling us where we can and can't go, to foods we eat, there are squares to spot everywhere! Through this book's full-color photographs featuring where to find squares in familiar places, readers will learn how to spot each square. With simple text to encourage them to read on their own, young readers will better understand what a square is.
SLJ Reivew of I Spot Shapes!
11/01/2024
PreS-Gr 1—Shapes are everywhere! Encouraging emerging readers to spot shapes in the world around them, this series features vibrant photos and simple sentence structures, supported by repetition and context clues. Kids jump through a hoop and a delicious doughnut delight on the pages of I Spot Circles. I Spot Diamonds uses a road sign and a fence, items readers might see every day, to illustrate the concept. Each book ends in a look and find, where readers are encouraged to identify the named shape on the facing page filled with objects. The detailed pictures, like the watermelon and kiwi in I Spot Ovals, try to support readers through the less common words. Still, when these photos are not immediately identifiable, like the chocolate in I Spot Squares, it could be tricky for readers to decode as there is no context other than the photo and the shape. VERDICT Useful as tools for classroom libraries, these concept books are limited in their appeal.
School Library Journal
Author: Natalie Humphrey
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