Book #1- Swing Otto Swing!
Author and Illustrator- David Milgrim
Publisher- Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Division
Publication Date- 2004
ISBN Number- 0-689-85564-8
Brief Summary- This decodable text formatted story is about
a robot named Otto who is trying to learn how to swing from a vine. A monkey
named Flip tries to teach him but Otto was not successful in swinging from the vine. The book ends with
Otto remaining determined to swing by building himself a swing-set safely on the
ground.
Evaluation- This book matches the usual decodable text
format in that it is simple and only has a few words on each page. It should be
considered a good book for children to read because it teaches them the
valuable lesson of staying determined when things don’t go your way. This book
is unique and attractive to little kids because it pairs up two “beings”
that we don’t normally see together (a monkey and a robot). This unusual
pairing shows children that even though the monkey and the robot are so
different, they can work together successfully and learn from one another.
Rating: I am not a big fan of decodable text. I think that
its excessive simplicity makes the book boring at times. However, there are
some positive parts about this book as previously mentioned. I give this book a
3 out of 5.
This definitely looks like a beginner chapter book, but to be decodable the words have to all follow the same word family pattern. Does the text include mostly words that rhyme? For example, a book with the _at word family is decodable because new readers can predict what the words will be based on the pattern. From the title I cannot tell if it follows a decodable pattern.
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