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Why should I buy Prince the Playful Puppy for my child?

Not only is this a fun book to read but it is great for emerging readers as well! This book focuses on rhyming words. Rhyme is important to emergent literacy because it teaches children about the language. Rhyming helps children learn about word families such as let, met, pet, wet, and get. Other important skills include phonological awareness, the ability to notice and work with the sounds in language. Rhymes help children with phonemic awareness, which is the knowledge that phonemes are the smallest units of sounds that make up words. This awareness leads to reading and writing success!

Rhyme also teaches children about the patterns and structures of both spoken and written language. Rhyme also prepares children to make predictions while learning words and gives them crucial decoding skills.

A book your child will want to read again and again.

In addition to these critical learning elements, I focused on making the books illustrations creative and interesting to young readers. The bright and colorful pages are designed to keep the young reader’s attention as there are many elements to look at. Each time they read the book, your child will find new interesting items to look at. Most importantly, this book will help your young reader understand that words convey meaning which is a crucial step for emerging readers to understand. Your child will also use the pictures on the page to access their background knowledge or contextual clues for vocabulary development.