What's For Supper?/Qu'est-ce qu'on mange ce soir? (I Can Read Series)

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Summary: Une Surprise!
Review: In preparation for travels next year, my 4-year-old and I are attuning our ears to French. WHAT'S FOR SUPPER (along with other books in this Barron's series) is just our speed. Carol Thompson's appealing illustrations make it easy for a preschooler to "tell herself the story." Mary Risk's story of children buying groceries and preparing supper for their mother - a surprise! - keeps us turning pages, whether in English or French. The cassette is familiarizing us with the sounds, and the end-of-the-book phonetic spelling lists are polishing some of the rust off my encrusted college French. It will be possible to use these at developing levels, too. Right now we read the English, then the French on each page and listen to the tape doing the same. Later we can cover the English on the page and just read the French. And on the flip side of the cassette, we can hear the whole story in just English or in just French. A great supplement to whatever French "text" a family uses.