Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2-3
by Timothy Rasinski
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Author: Timothy RasinskiBrand: Scholastic
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN: 0439513839
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Teaching Resources
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Book Reviews of Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2-3
Book Review: A fun book
Summary: 3 Stars
Sincere apologies to some of the reviewers if I am wrong, but many sentences among these reviews read like material from a publisher. (It's also odd that all of her reviews of the first reviewer were posted in a three-week period in 2008.)
"Among the many activities, kids read clues on each rung," but that IS the one and only activity in this book. Every page is based on the same format -- reading clues on each rung and changing letters to create the word on the next rung. This book will not "broaden vocabulary." It will not make your child a more "fluent reader." Climb to new heights in writing? How? And it's a bit much to attribute a significant increase in reading (a whole grade level) to a single puzzle book.
It is a fun puzzle book. The impact it might make on a child would be in problem solving or logic skills as he or she puzzles out the next word.
My only complaint with the book itself is that the words are sometimes oddly chosen. For instance, to go from
"cart" to "car" (by taking away one letter), the clue is "an automobile." A similar one is "very warm" being "hot." Or "what you make by painting or drawing" being "art." But other clues are several grade levels above those. "To burn slightly" is to "char." "Speed or quickness" is "haste." "A wooden barrel that holds liquids" being a "cask." "Some rabbits are called ___-eared" being "lop."
This inconsistency is likely to cause some frustration for the kind of kid who prizes working independently and really wants to get it herself. A very bright first grader who can get 90% of the words in this book is still not going to have heard of a "lop-eared" rabbit. Probably. And to say that the insertion of these inconsistent words builds vocabulary is nonsense. You need some repeated usage to build vocabulary. There is no repeated usage here.
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