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Book Overview
Step 1 books entice early readers with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. Poor Dog. He's awfully hot But Mom won't share her lemonade. Cat won't share his shady spot on the porch. And Skunk's making a real stink about sharing his hollow log. What does a hot Dog have to do to get cool? Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0307261018
ISBN13:9780307261014
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:Random House Books for Young Readers
Length:32 Pages
Weight:0.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:4 to 6 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Grade 1
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Favorite book of Step into series
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I love this book, and I love reading it to my 2 year old niece. For a step-into books it's cute, and humourous! My niece loves the book so much she is into her second copy. Hot Dog is about a dog that is so hot, and can't seem to find a cool place. He meets different people and animals and wants them to share their fan, or their ice cream, or their shady log- but all he hears is NO WAY DOG! Better than other step-into books - it's cute, rhymes, and has a good sharing moral at the end. It's creative, and is just plain fun to read out loud!!
Love This Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The illustrations in this book are hilarious, The text is perfect for children that are just starting to read.Simple one syllable words with two to three words per page. But the best part of this book is the illustrations, I just love them. The dog spends the entire book hot and trying to cool off. Every attempt he makes fails until the very end. You find your yourself rooting for the dog. This is one of my son't favorite books, he wants to read it every night.
Fun Story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I am a Pre-Kindergarten teacher and I introduced this story to my class on the first day of school after we get in from the playground. They love it and relate to the hot little dog in the story. This book is ideal for a child and an adult to sit and read together. It has predictable and easy words and the kids have fun watching the dog do anything to cool off on a hot day. When I read it to the class, they enjoy it so much they take it from storytime and read it themselves. This is the kind of book that inspires young people to have a love for reading. They realize that reading is fun and can be easy too. This book was favorite from the first day.
"Hot Dog" Rates #1 in my Classroom!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I have begun to use these Road to Reading books in my resource classroom and the students love them. They especially loved Hot Dog. Many of the words are on the state mandated word lists for K-2. The pictures are terrific and the story is interesting and funny to the kids. I thought it was great too-in fact we all fell in love with the little "Hot Dog".
Excellent Kids starter book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book was the first one our daughter (4) read by herself. It's pretty good and is at the level of the old "see spot run" books. It's about thirty pages and has nice color pictures.
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