"The Sports News Is On!" - "Game Updates - Scores - Action Replays" is Book-1 from the "Sports Action Kid Books"- This exciting picture book story is portrayed with a fictional sports news program. Updates of games in progress, the action of 5 different sports, include Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey and Soccer games in progress with full color play-by-play sports action and a lively rhyming text. The story tells about the teams competing, the scores, and the play-by-play description of illustrated replays from the exciting game action. The children have front row seats to the play-by-play action of each sport in the reports.- Special Bonus Literacy Page Format - This paperback picture book story includes a special literacy page format. It is designed to enhance a child's reading skill development, before, during or after sharing the exciting sports story. The story is in a large black text, while the alphabet is shown in small red letters on the left margin, with story words in small blue text along the right margin, of each page. This format allows for reference to the alphabet letters and the story words at any time to reinforce and practice reading skills. ... letters make sounds ... sounds make words .... words make sentences.The story includes ...-5 sport news updates of Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey and Soccer games in progress....- Full color play-by-play sports action with a lively rhyming text. -The special page format, alphabet in red letters and key words in blue text are displayed to promote reading skill development.-A helpful chart at the end of the story, shows the 4 Building Blocks of Reading, with tips and activities for parents and care givers reading with children. Each building block represents and explains a literacy skill, and offers tips and activities, for that skill development that contributes to a child's overall reading development.