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Star Wars Phonics - Book 5: How to Be a Jedi
Learn how to read with all your favourite Star Wars characters! Perfect for reluctant readers, each book is illustrated with full colour images from the blockbuster Star Wars movies.
This book focuses on short u sounds.
This book focuses on short u sounds.
15 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2012
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January 6, 2013
My favorite quote:
No one likes Vader. Now no one likes Lando. 'But I am on your side,' says Lando. 'You are not on our side!' Leia says. 'You are slime!' Is Lando really slime? Only time will tell.
No one likes Vader. Now no one likes Lando. 'But I am on your side,' says Lando. 'You are not on our side!' Leia says. 'You are slime!' Is Lando really slime? Only time will tell.
November 29, 2021
Some of these are a little hard to follow but it serves its purpose
September 9, 2012
Star Wars for the next generation! Scholastic has been bringing out a lot of different books from Lego Star Wars, Star Wars activity books and now Star Wars Phonics. I was not sure what to expect when getting this boxed set but it far, far exceeded my expectations.
The Books are:
Book 1 - Meet Anakin - short a
Book 2 - Friends to the End - short e
Book 3 - Jar Jar's Trip - short i
Book 4 - Here Come the Ewoks - short o
Book 5 - How to Be a Jedi - short u
Book 6 - Chase on Endor - long a
Book 7 - Meet Han Solo - long e
Book 8 - Hide Out - long i
Book 9 - Here Come the Clones - long o
Book 10Use the Force, Luke! - long u
Workbook 1 - Short Vowel Sounds
Workbook 2 - Long Vowel Sounds
With a focus of between 5 and 12 key words per book, with repetitions, these books give a lot of practice and will help develop reading skills. Most of the books have full color photo screen shots from the movies on every page and a small white bar on the bottom of the page for the text in a nice large font. The key words for the book are bold print to make them stick out. It was fun just reading through the books and going down memory lane of the movies even as an adult. There is a stronger focus on the original three movies which is awesome.
This box set will be a great tool for parents helping their kids, or in the classroom.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books in the Star Wars and Lego Star Wars series from Scholastic my blog
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The Books are:
Book 1 - Meet Anakin - short a
Book 2 - Friends to the End - short e
Book 3 - Jar Jar's Trip - short i
Book 4 - Here Come the Ewoks - short o
Book 5 - How to Be a Jedi - short u
Book 6 - Chase on Endor - long a
Book 7 - Meet Han Solo - long e
Book 8 - Hide Out - long i
Book 9 - Here Come the Clones - long o
Book 10Use the Force, Luke! - long u
Workbook 1 - Short Vowel Sounds
Workbook 2 - Long Vowel Sounds
With a focus of between 5 and 12 key words per book, with repetitions, these books give a lot of practice and will help develop reading skills. Most of the books have full color photo screen shots from the movies on every page and a small white bar on the bottom of the page for the text in a nice large font. The key words for the book are bold print to make them stick out. It was fun just reading through the books and going down memory lane of the movies even as an adult. There is a stronger focus on the original three movies which is awesome.
This box set will be a great tool for parents helping their kids, or in the classroom.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books in the Star Wars and Lego Star Wars series from Scholastic my blog
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April 14, 2015
A great set of books to help a young Star Wars fan learn to read. Both my six and four year old love them, and I think the emphasis on the sounds (one sound per book, with each of the words containing that sound in bold text) is actually helping them.
January 15, 2013
I love this set! I have a struggling reader, & this set was perfect!
August 4, 2020
The girls thoroughly enjoyed these and they have a few less common phonics words, like slime. The workbooks are a bit advanced at the moment and we missed two of the books because the library copy isn’t complete anymore. I think I may buy us our own set.
May 11, 2022
Too easy
November 9, 2015
This is a set of books to help get either starting readers or those who are having difficulty with reading to understand the vowel sounds. The books are formatted so that each teaches one sound and the words using that sound are in bold print. The characters are of course familiar to any Star Wars fan. This increases the usefulness of the books because that means any little SW fan is going to want to read these. Besides the ten story books there are also two workbooks but I haven't looked at them so can't comment on them.
September 20, 2015
Although I cannot give any individual book more than 3 stars, I am giving the set 4* as it is a clever idea and gets kids who are interested in Star Wars to beg to do some reading. My daughter loves SWs and loves reading but sometimes gets exasperated by some "early reader" books with more challenging words in them. This set was just enough of a challenge without overwhelming her and yet keeping her going.
Fun, educational, nice set.
Fun, educational, nice set.
December 17, 2015
Daniel got these books in kindergarten and read them all summer afterwards. He said they were interesting and are very easy books to read now that he is in second grade. My daughter Penelope is in preschool and likes to have these books read to her. Soon she’ll be reading them herself!
My review of several children's Star Wars Books: http://lauragerold.blogspot.com/2015/...
My review of several children's Star Wars Books: http://lauragerold.blogspot.com/2015/...
September 18, 2015
This was probably my favorite in the boxed set. I enjoyed the exploration of the differences between Han and Chewie yet the conclusion that they can still be best friends. This one came at an important moment for my daughter so worked well. Again simple and easy but attractive for her early reading skills.
September 18, 2015
For an early reading book, this got my child enthused about reading to me, excited to learn the new words and she now knows how to read force, pod racing and more!
For me, it was an ok book with not a lot of story but didn't give away plot lines which a lot of Star Wars books manage to do!
For me, it was an ok book with not a lot of story but didn't give away plot lines which a lot of Star Wars books manage to do!
July 25, 2013
"I like these books because they're awesome!"
September 18, 2015
My least favorite in the set - and I don't usually mind Jar Jar too much! Dark pictures making them almost pointless, lots of next level up words which made it challenging but not enjoyable!
September 18, 2015
Another fun one - simple words and nice to incorporate more popular words like trees and forest and home! Simple for early readers.
September 18, 2015
My daughter's second favorite! Very similar to a longer book we read recently but this uses nice clear simple language for her.
September 18, 2015
This one was just ok. Simple for early readers, not much fun.
September 18, 2015
My daughter's least favorite - she is not keen on Han Solo. Gentle easy early reading.
September 18, 2015
Easy words for the early reader, caught my daughter, made her feel good to read by herself!
September 18, 2015
Clones is a pretty hard word but my daughter learned it and then used it to work out other similar words in the book - so I'm impressed and happy!
September 18, 2015
My daughter's favorite. However we could have done without the word "dunes"! It was not necessary!
October 16, 2022
2021 - Kait read her way through 9 of these and did 1 workbook, since the library set is missing the last 2.
2022 - and now Maddie has read them as well.
2022 - and now Maddie has read them as well.
May 5, 2016
Perfect for Luke – he loves them!
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