Star Wars: Luke Skywalker's Amazing Story (DK Reader - Level 1 (Quality))

Buy Star Wars: Luke Skywalker's Amazing Story (DK Reader - Level 1 (Quality)): Simon Beecroft,

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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Author: Simon Beecroft, £2.58
Finally, learning to read is a pleasure!!
Review date: 2010-08-17 Rating: 10 out of 10

The DK Readers Star Wars books have been a real find for us. We have two Star Wars obsessed little boys at differing stages of learning to read, and to stumble across a set of books that they really, really want to read is such a bonus!

This book is all about Luke Skywalker. It is a level one book, (described as beginning to read), which means: Simple sentences and limited vocabulary; Picture glossary and simple index; Adult participation helpful (according to the book).

I bought this for my son who is in Reception class and he loves it! Due to the nature of Star Wars there are some harder words, (especially names), in this book but they have kept the sentences as simple as they can whilst making it a meaningful read for a little person. To give you an idea of the level of reading required an example sentence is: "R2-D2 has a secret message for a strange old man who lives nearby". However, there isn't a huge amount of text in the book and, whilst my son required quite a bit of help the first few times that we read the book he has now learnt a lot of the words in there and is getting fairly self-sufficient. The pictures are excellent - they are taken from the films and they dominate the book and complement the text, so these in themselves are almost bound to entice any young readers to pick up the book.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is wanting to encourage their children to read something a little different outside school, and would think that the reading level would be most appropriate for relatively confident Reception class readers and Year 1 readers...although any young Star Wars fan will undoubtedly love it!

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