Pigs in Space

Do you need a fun, new book for teaching visual association, animals, prepositions, and rhyming words? The Pigs in Space interactive reading book uses visual strategies to teach beginning readers a variety of skills. Designed to support IEP goals based on extensive needs assessments from special educators across this country, this book will help your students reach their goals.

The book utilizes research and evidence-based methods to help students build literacy skills in the areas of early language skills, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension. It can be used on multiple levels, with 4 pre-reading skill activities and 3 reading skill activities described in the instructions on the inside cover.The sentences and pictures teach students to identify, label, and sequence as they practice early reading skills. 

To use this book, students simply attach 3 picture/symbol cards on each page to illustrate a sentence using an animal's name, a preposition, and a rhyming word. When they turn the page, they read the same sentence again and view a picture that illustrates the completed meaning of the sentence.  This activity book scaffolds many skills including reading comprehension, association, prepositions, and much more. Kids will love to complete sentences as they look at the adorable, animal themed illustrations.

This laminated book is bound with loose-leaf binder rings so that pages can be reordered or removed as desired.  Following the instructions page that outlines seven levels of pre-reading and reading activities, it features 6 pages of 36 full color 2" x 2" Velcro backed pictures and positions followed by 12 different sentence pages.

Reading Grade Level: K and up

Interest Grade Level: K and up