to piggyback on this, I love Pioneer Valley's character, Danny the dog. My
first graders love him too!!!
janelle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phyllis Hinerman" <pehinerman...@yahoo.com>
To: "Special Chat List for To Understand: New Horizons in
ReadingComprehension" <understand@literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Understand] Chapter six?
Tell me more about the Pioneer Valley books...:-)
Jennifer, We have used a lot of the books published by Pioneer Valley. I
am a Reading Recovery teacher during part of my day, so I look especially
closely at the spacing between words, the form of the 'a' and 'g', and the
match between the words and the pictures. Pioneer Valley books have been
great in all those areas.
There are several different 'series' containing the same characters, and
the books with these characters come in many levels. For instance, Rosie
and Bella are two little poodle-type white dogs. The books containing
these characters range from very low all the way up to easy level chapter
books. In addition, the illustrations are real photographs! That is just
one example of the 'series'.
Within the last year or two, Pioneer Valley introduced an extensive set of
nonfiction titles. Once again, they range from very easy to more
difficult and the illustrations are wonderful photographs.
I hope that information may help answer your request for more information.
Phyllis
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