02686cam a2200289 4500 2032040 TxAuBib 20070112120000.0 110823s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Joan Green. Interactive Reading Books: Set of Two - What Color Is It? & What Happened and Why?. Santa Clarita, CA : Greenhouse Publications, 2000. What Happened and Why? - Students are asked to make inferences about what's happening in the wonderful pictures drawn by Linda Comerford. Each sentence page poses a "what?" or "where" question and then answers it. (ex.) "What did she bake?" "She baked the cookies." Each page ends with question "why?". What Color Is It? - This book teaches children how to match, identify and label colors. They also learn to read their color words which are included in simple sentences. (Ex. "The apple is red.") The colors are also taught by association. (Ex. The "apple" is matched to the red square and the "red square" goes on the apple. This way when a child hears the word "red" he can "see" the red apple in his head and remember the colors more easily!.) The interactive reading boos are great for students requiring visual supports. The Level 2 books are also great for sight readers. Includes manipulative pieces for sentence building and comprehension. These books are designed to be used on many levels. Colorful velcro backed original drawings are used to match, identify, label, sequence and create sentences. Utilizing the power of visual strategies, the children learn to associate pictures with words. The fun, interactive nature of these books is rewarding to children with and without special needs. Children in special education, pre-school, kindergarten, and learning English as a second language call all have fun and succeed. Teachers, parents, speech and language pathologists, resource specialists and occupational therapists have used these books with great success. Even though Interactive Reading Books were developed in a special education program, these interactive books for children have proven to be equally powerful learning aids for kindergarten reading and all beginning readers!. 20080228. Preschool children. Autism. Special education. Communication. Speech therapy for children. Down syndrome. Visual learning. Reading. http://www.specialneedsproject.com/What-Color-Is-It-An-Interactive-Reading-Book-11598.htm