Wednesday, January 15, 2014

{ Review + Giveaway } Jo's Early Readers

Jo's Early Readers is a series of short stories developed by Writer, Joanna Wong, based on phonetic rhymes and repetitions, with some moral values infused. How great !


The series comes in a set of 10 books;
- Little Baby Bob
- A Snail in a Pail
- Ming the King
- A Star In A Jar
- The big Fat Cat
- A Man On The Moon
- Jay, Clay And Ray
-  The Fun Farm
- Sue And Her Blue Shoes
- The Little Toy Shop


One Activity Book and  One Colouring Pad


On top of reading the book by itself, if you have purchased Pen Pal Whizz, it's compatible with it ! Good for the little ones who are learning how to read. Pen Pal Whizz would come  in handy ! Read my review here.


One of our favourite among all, a character building book "Jay, Clay And Ray " ! A story about how a bullied underprivileged boy turned a bully into a good boy by covering up the latter's bad behaviour with a white lie.

A sample page of Jay, Clay And Ray

The short story was written in a catchy rhyme style. Each page as we read, I got Xav to point out the words that rhymes. In this instance, it's words ending with "ay".

As we finished reading each page, for instance page 3, I played a memory game with him as well. I got him to recall what were the rhyming words he had spotted earlier in the previous pages. It's accumulative as we read on. He got to list out all the rhyming words on the previous pages and so on. Level of difficulty gets higher as we read on, the list of words get longer. Some prompting were given to him when he could not recall.

Here's a quick glance into activities in the Activity book.

Level 1 - Beginners

Level 2 - Intermediate

Level 3 - Independent Readers
The series is highly recommended for children Age 3 and above.

Our first Giveaway for  2014 ! JLB Educational Technology P/L has sponsored a set to be given away to one lucky reader of Xavvy-licious !

Simply follow the steps in the Rafflecopter.

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* Note that the Giveaway is open to participants staying in Singapore Only.
* Giveaway will end on 22nd January 2014.
* Incomplete entries will be voided.
* Winner will be notified by email.

Good Luck !


Disclaimer : We were given a set of Jo's Early Readers for Review Purposes. No monetary compensation is involved and all opinions are of my own.


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19 comments:

Crystal said...

I encourage my kiddos to read by letting them to choose one of the read from their stash of readers and be an audience to hear them read aloud. It helps to encourage reading when they get to make decisions on their own (choose their own read), and having myself as their supportive audience. This boosts family bonding times and confidence for the kiddos to pick up reading.

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Crystal Lee

Anonymous said...

I will read with the kids every nite without fail....chueimei@gmail.com

Mezzo & Kene said...

The only way to encourage my boy to read is to start off by reading to him first. Actually he can only picture read now so it's good to have simple wordings books for him to learn reading

supermom said...

Awesome book set.
Bedtime reading has became part of my girls' routine. It not only helps them to settle down for the night. it's also a great bonding session for the siblings where they share their thoughts about the story which they have just read.

Thanks for the awesome giveway. :)

Anonymous said...

i encourage my girl to read by using loud and varying tones and vocals, as well as assuming lively dialogue by the characters in story, crazy, big actions help keep her hooked on the story.
venetia ngin
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Diana said...

I read daily to my son since young and I think it helps to a lot if I choose the right books, I read aloud and make the story interesting and lots of q & a during the session. He may be able to read now but I believe he will love this set. Blogaaholic@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I love reading to both my children and bringing them to the library is a must.
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Anonymous said...

I read to my children since young and encourage them to pick the books they like to read from the library.
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Anonymous said...

Reading open their eyes n mind so its a must must. At least one story to sooth them to bed daily
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Anonymous said...

We try to act out some of the books we read.


Robert Sim
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Waiwai Leung said...

We read together and associate experience that they have with the story.

Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

Waiwai
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Anonymous said...

I will use interesting books and read to my child every night.
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Cynthia

Anonymous said...

I will use interesting books and read to my child every night.
edenie9@yahoo.com
Cynthia

Cheryl said...

Great books to start preschoolers in their reading.

adrianjacq said...

Thank you for introducing this new set of readers.We read to her when she was a baby and now it is a habit. We read varity of books. And now she is 3year old, it is time to teach her simple reading.

zhong said...

Reading is a life long habit,wish to encourage my 3 kids to self read with this set of storybooks

zhong said...

Reading is a life long habit,wish to encourage my 3 kids to self read with this set of storybooks


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Yang Li said...

Reading should start young and cultivate this good habit

Yang Li said...

Reading should start young and cultivate this good habit

yangli_nicole@hotmail.com

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