Curious George

When teaching a child how to read, it is important to not only teach how to read the text, but also the parts of a book, and how actually how to read it. A great beginning reader is the Curious George series by Margret Rey and Alan J. Shalleck. These books are based off a TV series, but they seem to be very popular with the young children. Also when teaching children how to read, it is important to stress the literary elements. In the book, Curious George Goes to School, is a great book to start off with, because it would be easy for kids to relate to. It is a story about George’s, the monkey, first day of school and how it does not start off too smoothly. In art class, George had kind of made a mess of things and all the art work was scattered all through the classroom. At first George was very sad, but at the end of the story it ended up being a good thing, because they found the missing artwork. It is a good story, of how sometimes things might not start off all that great, but in the end it worked out for the better.