The pictures help to give a visual of what the words are saying and the words give dialogue to the pictures. The picture and words in this book have a complementary relationship. These words sound like the sounds they are making which creates not only a visual but sounds for what the reader is reading. This book uses onomatopoeia with the capitalized words "WHOOSH", "PLUNK", "SMASHED", and "BAP". The vocabulary in this book is fairly simple most of the words would fall in the students vocabulary but they may have difficulty with these words flatness, politely, frilly, sailed, gulped, inning, and umpire. He hopes it will prove that he is a good player flat or not, and it works. So Stanley gets the idea to stuff his uniform with laundry to make him bigger. They think his flatness gives him an unfair advantage. After the first game people don't think it is fair he gets to play because of his flatness. Stanley decides to try out for the baseball team and after some practice with his younger brother Arthur he makes the team. But that doesn't stop him from wanting to be a normal boy. Stanley Lambchop is four feet tall, one foot wide and half an inch thick ever since a bulletin board flattened him. This book assumes that the readers are still developing fluency so it will not overwhelm them with large paragraphs.Each page also has large pictures that fill up the space the words aren't using.The text is medium sized and there only about three sentences on each page.Flat Stanley at Bat would be classified as a beginning reader book for kindergarten through first grade.
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