Interactive Book-Webscene (IBW) Review and GIVEAWAY!

How would you like to foster a love for reading for your children while also helping to set their imaginative juices flowing? Well the new Interactive Book-Webscene (IBW) books do just that and more!! Reading becomes fun for children because what they are hearing or reading comes to life in front of them on the computer.

There are 9 KA Readers that use the components of a phonics based program (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency, and comprehension). Each story has a theme (for example, “it is good to help friends!”) and a word family (for example, -ear, -og, -ond, and -out).

After reading a chapter in the KA Readers, you will find a web address to go to for a webscene that acts out what was just read. In one of the stories we recieved, Where Can Lost Bee Be? one of the webscenes showed the vivid colors that were talked about in the chapter along with the word for the color popping up on the screen. It helped to make things more concrete for my kids. For example, in the story the bee went to an orange flower. In the webscene you see a bee flying over an orange flower and the color orange popping up on the screen. So for younger readers like my daughter, she sees the orange color that we read. For my son, who is older, he was able to see the color, identify that it was indeed orange and also associate the word orangewith the color.

All KA Readers include:

• “About the book” (page 4) which explains the IBW process
• “Spanish text included” (page 5) which has word-for-word comparison text
• Animations or Webscenes that contain pop up words that identify the objects and concepts to make what they read more concrete
• Story theme, word count, reading grade level, and word pattern families
• Online links to “Reading Support Activities” and “ESL Support Activities”

For those of you that would like to make a little extra money, and who doesn’t in this day and age, you can become an IBW Bookseller! Not only will you represent an excellent product, but there is no competition! How cool is that? You will receive a 20% commission on all sales at the close of each hosted event. Check out www.IBW-Booksellers.com for more details.

The Busy Preschooler’s Guide to Learning– fun activities built around the 26 letters of the alphabet, with step by step help to guide parents in how to use everday situations to teach 105 skills their kids need before they walk in the kindergarten door (Retail value $60)

Mandatory Entry:

* Go to www.IBW-books.com and look around the site and come back here and leave a comment telling me something you learned.

Additional entries:

* Go to www.IBW-booksellers.com and read about becoming a IBW Bookseller. Come back here and leave a comment telling me something you learned.

*Subscribe to my blog

*Vote for my son’s preschool, Academic Pathways (link on right sidebar)

*Blog about this giveaway

This contest is open to US residents. You do not need a blog to enter, but you do have to leave an email address so I can contact you when the contest is over if you win. You MUST complete the mandatory entry first to be eligible to do the additional enteries and to win.

Contest ends on July 6th with the winner being announced on July 7th.