My husband is an awesome handyman, and replaced our dishwasher this weekend. What does that have to do with reading? Well, he was reading the manual as he was doing the installation. And we had to rearrange the living room to get the old dishwasher out and the new one into the kitchen. When we moved the couch away from the bookshelves, we had access to four sections that were normally covered up...and rediscovered these!
Our kids LOVED this series growing up, and our elementary scholars still love them today. I Spy scavenger hunt books build vocabulary, critical thinking skills (some of the clues are tricky!) and visual literacy. We were lucky to have the CD-ROM game versions, too. The games were fun and challenging for both our school-aged daughter and preschooler son, because the rhyming lines were read aloud and clues could be repeated by clicking on individual words. Embedded reading lessons while they were having fun, and this was before the term "gamification" was an educational buzzword.
It's Monday, and we're taking a trip down memory lane with I Spy books. What books do you remember from your childhood that were fun AND challenging?
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