title: Magic Words: Discovering the Adventure of Reading (Catch the Reading Bug)
author:  Julie Rebboah 
description: MAGIC WORDS by educator Julie Rebboah will capture emerging readers with text that will bolster a young person s confidence. With increasing difficultness, MAGIC WORDS allows children to experience reading success even as they enjoy silly and simple stories illustrated with fun full-color pictures. This early reader text will give children the ability to practice and eventually master an entire book. An added bonus included in the book is the note to caregivers that gives advice on encouraging reading skills. --By Anika Fajardo, librarian, teacher, and author of Learning from the Land and Working with Water (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)<br /><br />Magic Words: Discovering the Adventure of Reading is a learning -to-read book for children entering kindergarten or first grade. Filled with colorful, playful illustrations and rhyming, easy word-recognition text, Magic Words will enable teachers and parents to encourage children to become avid readers. The imaginative short tales will keep them turning pages and telling the story to themselves even before they can read it. A partner book in the Catch the Reading Bug ! series by the same author is Magic Letters, the Keys to the World of Words. Magic Letters is an alphabet story book aimed at K-1 children learning to enjoy reading. --MWB: Children's Bookwatch<br /><br />Magic Words, the companion book to Magic Letters, provides the next natural step for all beginning readers, including those readers who gobble up each new experience with print as well as those who hesitate and/or struggle. Success for emergent learners is dependent upon self-regulation and development of the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations. Magic words provides these opportunities in a subtle, unobtrusive manner as it scaffolds according to each student s needs. From Cat and Rat Bat. to Big Pig and Zig Pig sit and eat figs. the reader experiences short vowel, easy long vowel combinations and sight words in an interesting series of short chapters beginning with simple word families and progressing almost unnoticed on to more difficult and lengthy sentences. All forms of ending punctuation as well as quotation marks and commas appear for new learning or to reinforce prior knowledge. Once again the colorful pictures, kid friendly and familiar text print provide necessary visuals and are sure to captivate the young learner. In Magic Words, author Julie Rebboah provides another wonderful learning opportunity for all beginning readers, parents and literacy coaches. The importance of instructional language is emphasized and endless possibilities for making this user friendly book your own are presented both in the How you can help section and in the afterword. Welcome - one and all - to the magical world of print! --Liz Blek, MS, President of National Kindergarten Alliance<br /><br />2010 Reader's Favorite Silver Award Winner --ReadersFavorite.com
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  Here’s what kids have to say to  
  Mary Pope Osborne, author of  
  the Magic Tree House series:
  
  
  _WOW! You have an imagination like no other._ —Adam W.
  
  
  _I love your books. If you stop writing books, it will be like losing a best
  friend._ —Ben M.
  
  
  _I think you are the real Morgan le Fay. There is always magic in your books._
  —Erica Y.
  
  
  _One day I was really bored and I didn’t want to read … I looked in your book.
  I read a sentence, and it was interesting. So I read some more, until the book
  was done. It was so good I read more and more. Then I had read all of your
  books, and now I hope you write lots more._ —Danai K.
  
  
  _I always read [your books] over and over … 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, 4 times
  …_ —Yuan C.
  
  
  _You are my best author in the world. I love your books. I read all the time.
  I read everywhere. My mom is like freaking out._ —Ellen C.
  
  
  _I hope you make these books for all yours and mine’s life._ —Riki H.
  