Hands-On Reading Fun!: Build-A-Word

Once readers have mastered the sounds, they can create compound words with Build-a-Word: Hands-On Reading Fun! by Nora Gaydos, illus. by Jackie Snider. Each page contains three die-cut windows; two handles below the outer windows slide two different words together to form a new word in the center (along with a new picture). A rhyme helps aid the budding reader, as in ""Look at the sun that shines with a glow./ Look at the flower beginning to grow."" On the facing page, readers can slide ""sun"" and ""flower"" together to form ""sunflower."" The illustrations feature 50 more compound words for readers to discover.