Begins to choose reading materials (e.g., books, magazines, and charts) and has favorites.PRECONVENTIONAL READERS AND BOOK CHARACTERISTICS Student Behaviors By matching pictures to a word, children begin to focus on print and mimic the reading behaviors of siblings and adults. The matching label is a color word (e.g., “yellow” for a sunflower). For instance, Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan (1988) includes pictures of objects from nature. Some children can also read simple “label books” with one or two words on a page that match the illustration or photograph. These appealing texts encourage students to use their oral language to tell stories. Tana Hoban has written over two dozen wordless books, such as Look! Look! Look! (1992), that spark conversations and focus preconventional readers on details in the illustrations. Ages 3-7.Books for Preconventional Readers Children at the Preconventional stage take their first steps as readers with wordless books. An afterword suggests that the photographs can be used to introduce other words and expressions""splash,'' ``spray,'' ``high and dry,'' and so onbut for these lessons children would need to rely entirely on the prompting of imaginative adults. However, the book as a whole is less engaging and ultimately less successful than his previous works, for the concept here is a limited one, easily grasped in its first presentation one quickly begins to crave new discoveries rather than repeated examples of the same. As with his other books (Here a Chick, There a Chick Becca Backward, Becca Frontward), McMillan's photographs are expressive and appealing, and there is a nice humor in several of the pairings.
Children frolic in the surf, then snuggle together in a towel a child is splashed in the face by a hose, while another holds it safely with the water turned off a flowerbed is pictured both dry and being watered down. On each spread, facing full-color photographs illustrate the opposing concepts of wet and dry.
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