Bob Books Set 4 - Complex Words
Bob Books Set 4 - Complex Words book cover

Bob Books Set 4 - Complex Words

Paperback – Box set, May 1, 2006

Price
$17.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
24
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0439845069
Dimensions
5.65 x 1.64 x 5.73 inches
Weight
70.5 pounds

Description

"Forget Dick and Jane. Your beginning reader needs Bob Books® to succeed." --cpamomva.blogspot.com "Tiny enough to sneak in a very full diaper bag, we are enjoying them here, there, and everywhere." -- needsnewbatteries.blogspot.com "They are a wonderful addition to a home library, school library, or a homeschool library. I love the smiles on my daughters' faces when they have succeeded in reading a book--that's priceless!" -- ourgaggleofgirls.com "Bob Books® made our children into avid readers. Best investment I ever made." -- The Lewiston Tribune At Bob Books, we emphasize that learning to read should be gentle and easy. This means that letters and concepts are introduced slowly and in a way that kids can understand, with plenty of repetition and opportunity for achievement. Learning to read is surprisingly complex, but Bob Books progress gradually and gently, helping children achieve early reading success and setting a foundation for a lifetime of strong literacy skills. Our method of meeting children where they are on their path to reading, is the easiest and most effective method, versatile enough to use both at home and in the classroom. Feeling overwhelmed with the task of teaching your child to read? The good news is that you don't have to know reading theory to use Bob Books. Teaching your child to read using Bob Books will not feel like teaching. Bob Books provide a step-by-step program to gently guide your child through the early stages of reading. At each level, books are carefully crafted to meet the needs of a particular stage in a child's reading development. Learning to read with Bob Books assures children success from their very first reading experience. Your child will amaze you with how quickly they can go from needing help, to reading all by themselves. Don't Push Not all children are ready to read at the same age. Be sensitive to your child's learning style and reading readiness. Practice together, sounds out words and play games. Take many small steps, and be patient. One day you'll be surprised and delighted to discover your child is a reader. This is easy! A confident reader is a reader for life. That's why Bob Books sets were designed to give your child early reading confidence - so that they will love to read! Make it FUN! Other early literacy programs can teach your child to "memorize" words or "perform" reading well, but Bob Books is not meant to be a chore. Best of all, there are so many ways to make it enjoyable for your child. Try the activities that come with the sets, use silly voices while reading together and make up songs. We wish your young learner much success and happiness as he or she enters the great adventure of reading. After teaching kindergarten for thirteen years, master teacher Bobby Lynn Maslen developed the Bob Books to satisfy her students' need for fun and effective reading materials. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • Readers at this level are able to tackle longer sentences and longer books but still love the accomplishment of reading a book all the way through.
  • Bob Books Set 4
  • continues to build reading skills, while also providing engaging stories that build success. In
  • Bob Books Set 4
  • , the simple narrative and design help children focus their skills on decoding, while introducing more challenging concepts and longer words. The delightful illustrations and humor help keep young readers engaged. Inside the box you'll find: - 8 easy-to-read books, 16-24 pages each - Many four and five letter words (one syllable) - Two syllable words  - Many consonant blends (such as
  • nd,
  • sn,
  • st,
  • ck)
  • - A few vowel combinations (such as
  • ou,
  • ee,
  • oo
  • ) - Many words can be "sounded out" (phonics based) - Limited sight words - Up to 150 words per book

Customer Reviews

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Same as set 3! Do not buy

Nothing against the seller, the book arrived on time and in great condition. But my son finished reading set 3 and when he started set 4, he realized he had ALREADY READ THOSE BOOKS! What a waist of money Bob Books.. They are the exact same books from the previous set! Not cool!
31 people found this helpful
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We love these for an 8 yo struggling reader

My daughter is a struggling reader. These really give her confidence. They are short and gradually get more difficult. She so proud when she reads 4-5 of them.
13 people found this helpful
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We love Bob Books

I purchased this for my 5 year old who did so well reading the Set 1 of the series. I had her sample Set 2 and Set 3 but she whisked right through them. After reading the recommendation from other parents I skipped Set 2 and 3 and went right to 4. It is challenging but it is so great seeing her sound the words out and work them out in her head.
11 people found this helpful
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This is amazing!

I really didn't expect my daughter to cruise through the Bob Books as fast as she did. She's only 4 years old and didn't really "get" reading until we got her the first set. Within 3 months, she'd breezed right through sets 1, 2, and 3, and she's now reading this one-- "Complex Words," with ease. I'm absolutely mindblown by how fast and easy reading has been for her thanks to these books. We'd tried some practice-reading at home ("Hop on Pop" and so on) but something about the Bob books just got through to her and I'm amazed to see her easily reading the complicated words in this book. In three months, she's gone from only knowing how to write her name and 2 other words to suddenly writing little story-books by herself-- at FOUR! I'm so proud and amazed and I think Bob Books are 99% of the reason for these sudden leaps in literacy!

My daughter is bright and may be gifted, but she's not a prodigy by any means. I think this early, advanced reading is well within the reach of most children. I strongly encourage parents of preschoolers to buy these books, and they're likely useful for kindergarten and 1st grade students, too, especially those who might need extra help outside the classroom.
9 people found this helpful
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Learn to read

I am a teacher that now homeschools my dyslexic daughter. These books are awesome for phonics instruction and sight words. We have all of the sets and read about 4-5 a day.
7 people found this helpful
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Do not hesitate!

If you have a preschooler, kindergartner or even a struggling first grader you will not be sorry you purchase these books! My four yr old told me he wanted to read so we started with set 1 and I have all 5 boxed sets plus the Kindergarten sight words boxed set. Today my preschooler is reading at the same level my first grader was at the beginning of the school year; and my first grader was in the top 3/4 of his class! The books are perfect in every way. The start off using 3 letters a book, one sentence per page and gradually get more complex letter sounds and longer stories. My son WANTS to read and we read twice daily! I taught my now middle schooler how to read at age four also but I know it would've been a lot less stressful (for me) if I would have known about these books. My son practically taught himself to read these books! Just make sure that your child can recognize each letter and knows what sound it makes. We only knew short vowel sounds when we started these, now my son can read words like 'wonderful', 'bright', 'another', 'business' and more! DO NOT HESITATE, buy these for your child; and yourself!!
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A MUST HAVE FOR BEGINNER READERS

GREAT SET OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN LEARNING TO READ... THERE ARE FIVE SETS... AND NOW THEY COME WITH A CD...

I RECOMMEND JUST THE PLAIN BOOK SETS... BUT THEY ARE REQUIRED FOR MY CHILD'S SCHOOL... AND EACH CHILD HAS HIS OWN SET...

ENJOY... I KNOW YOU WILL!!!
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Perfect for new reader, better than earlier sets though

I taught my daughter to read last summer using the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book. By using that book, she's quite far ahead a lot of "beginning readers" books.

However, I have been finding any character level 1 books (i.e. Fancy Nancy, Pinkalicious, anything you can buy at Target basically) to be all over the road in terms of difficulty and they do not follow ANY phonetic pattern at all. Words like "through" and "castle" will be in there instead of similar words with the same sounds like "frogs, dogs, bog" etc.

BOB books follow phonetic building, meaning all the books have similar sounds that kids can master and then build on (one book with all short a sounds, all short i sounds, etc.). You will not find random words that are way too hard and jarring for a five year old to figure out suddenly. We got the set 4, complex words. We had been given a few books from set 1 from a friend and those were a little too easy.

I so wish we had a few sets of these books immediately following using the 100 lessons book because that would have saved me a lot of headache in finding books she could actually read. I was using "Level 1" readers from local stores that were too hard/inconsistent or this set of Scholastic books in level A and all the pictures gave the words away. I like that these are short, the photos are fun but do not completely give the words away so they still have to read them. My daughter reads these without any tears. It's a joy for her!
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Reader Help

My kids love the Bob Books. I purchased them all, I love that my kids will sit down and read them on their own without any help. They are easy and fun and help them to gain a command of sight words without the use of flashcards.
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Educator approved!

I cannot say enough about Bob's books. They are great! I taught my son how to read using all of the levels and I have used them with my students as well. I even refer them to friends and parents of my students. It features repetitive reading with various colored levels. Children do not move up in level unless they have red with 100% accuracy of the previous level. Bob's books are must to teach children to read. You will be surprised at how fast your little one becomes a reader.
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