GOOOOOOOOAL!! This Step 1 introduction to practically every
child's first team sport is a win for emergent readers.
No hands--just feet. The game starts. Tweet! Young soccer enthusiasts
will build their reading confidence as they learn about basic skills and
the thrill of scoring a goal in Terry Pierce's rhythmic, rhyming Step 1
Reader. As she did in Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill and Tae Kwon
Do!, Pierce captures the excitement of sports while scaffolding reading
with alliteration and word families.
Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the
alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired
with picture clues help children decode the story.