Fall 2024
I Spot Stars
From the Set I Spot Shapes!
A star shape may be a more complex shape, but you can still spot them in your daily life! Young readers will love learning where stars are hiding around them and how to spot them on their own. Through this book's full-color photographs pointing out where to find stars, young readers will discover what a star is before learning how to spot them all around them. With the help of simplified text to encourage readers to read on their own, readers will test their knowledge at the end.
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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