Learn-to-Read Treasure Hunts : Fifty Skill-Building Games for Beginning Readers and Their Parents (Learn to Read)

Book Description
Learn-to-Read Treasure Hunts provides 50 days (or 10 school weeks) of family fun while giving kids ages 5 to 7 the skills and confidence they need to become better readers. The concept is simple and designed to work no matter what method of teaching is being used in school. There's one treasure hunt per day, three or four clues per treasure hunt, with each perforated page a written clue that parents tear off, fold, and hide. The child has to read each clue to complete the hunt. For example, Clue #1 of Day #1 reads: "Look under a pan," with the word "pan" illustrated. On the back of the final clue each day is a bonus phonics game in which kids match words to pictures. Fifty reward stickers are included with the book.

For ages 5-7. 63,000 copies in print.

From the Back Cover
"A terrific tool for parents, this book employs one of the most important first steps in learning to read--the sheer fun and joy of it!" --Twila C. Liggett, Ph.D., Executive Producer, Reading Rainbow Here to boost your child's reading skills and confidence are fifty progressively more difficult treasure hunt games. It's simple. Tear out the perforated pages, hide the clues as directed, and then watch your child experience the magic of reading. There's a bonus phonics matching game with each final clue, and fifty stickers to reward your young reader. "...includes everything parents need to provide hours of fun. And young readers will reap rewards guaranteed to last long after the game is over." --Ann Pleshette Murray, Editor-in-Chief, Parents magazine

About the Author
Steve Cohen created his first treasure hunt when his son Peter was 6 and was resistant to reading. Peter loved the hunts and is now and avid reader who regards himself as co-author of the book. Steve is a publishing executive, father of 2, and the author of a number of other books including Getting In, which we published in 1983 and which sold very well.


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This collection of skill-building activities is designed to boost the emerging readers' abilities at decoding words. Clues to treasure hunts as well as additional materials are provided, and the parent or teacher simply tears them from the book and places the clues about the home or school. The reader must decipher the clues to eventually find the "treasure." Simple line drawings are employed as further clues. The author used this method in working with his own child who struggled with learning to read, and he found this technique to be a winner.


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