Title: More like memorizing/visualizing, not reading!
Product review: I bought this based on the excellent reviews. However, this book doesn't help improve reading skills or phonics.To begin with, there is a picture of the monkey doing something similiar on every page "monkey sees red balloon" followed by "monkey sees yellow balloon". If there was no text, my daughter could still narrate the story based on the pictures.The best book I have for improving my daughters reading is"Alpha Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers." There are no pictures in teh book, but the phonic sounds are repititive and really help to cement her reading skills. It's teaching the "sight" method of reading, which isn't very useful.I would also recommend the "Bob" series books for ones with pictures that don't completely give the text away.
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