About this item
GOOOOOOOOAL!! This Step 1 introduction to practically every child's first team sport is a win for emergent readers.No hands--just feet. The game starts. Tweet! Young soccer enthusiasts will build their reading confidence as they learn about basic skills and the thrill of scoring a goal in Terry Pierce's rhythmic, rhyming Step 1 Reader. As she did in Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill and Tae Kwon Do!, Pierce captures the excitement of sports while scaffolding reading with alliteration and word families. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
About the Author
TERRY PIERCE is the author of twenty children's books, her most recent works being MAMA LOVES YOU SO (Little Simon) and MY BUSY GREEN GARDEN (Tilbury House) . Her other books include BLACKBERRY BANQUET, TAE KWON DO! (Random House Step-Into-Reading, 2007 Bank Street College Best Children's Books) , and MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES (Picture Window Book, AEP Distinguished Achievement Award) , and books for young readers about Hawaii.
A former Montessori teacher, she now writes full-time, teaches children's writing workshops and is a visiting author to elementary schools. She also teaches children's writing courses for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. To learn more about Terry, please visit her at http://www.terrypiercebooks.com.
