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The Adventures of Zip
Poof! A Bot!: Ready-to-Read Ready-to-Go!
Zip the unlucky magician gets into another hilarious (and sticky) situation in the second book in the Adventures of Zip Ready-to-Go! series from author-illustrator David Milgrim, who was awarded a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his Ready-to-Read, Go, Otto, Go!
Zip has zapped a bot. Zip tells the bot what to do. Will the bot listen? (Spoiler alert: The bot does not listen and Zip learns an important lesson, complete with a pie being thrown in his face!)
Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Poof! A Bot! was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious out-of-this-world adventure featuring words they can actually read and starring a zany magician?
Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains no more than 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn thirty-five sight words and six words from one word family. So come on and get reading with Zip!
Zip has zapped a bot. Zip tells the bot what to do. Will the bot listen? (Spoiler alert: The bot does not listen and Zip learns an important lesson, complete with a pie being thrown in his face!)
Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Poof! A Bot! was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious out-of-this-world adventure featuring words they can actually read and starring a zany magician?
Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains no more than 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn thirty-five sight words and six words from one word family. So come on and get reading with Zip!
32 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2019
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March 21, 2024Definitely, today is the day of Meaning.
When you say that " something make sense " - it means that you understood it.
" The understanding of human language appears - along with generation - in the définition of a chatbot, intended to understand and generate human language, with the aim of predicting the next sequence of words, in a specific context " , says Chat Gpt 3.
The ability to generate text is truly remarqable, not to say incredible, but the claim to understand human language is just that - a claim. A chatbot cannot "understand "anything, things cannot " make sense " for him, due to the simple fact that Chat does not operate with meanings, like the human mind. To give a bot language processing capabilities linguists have formalized language into mathematical, binary descriptions, excluding meaning.
The meaning was excluded not because it was not important, but because that even nowadays we don't have a theory of it. The generative syntax available to a chatbot should also be accompanied by a generative semantics, for to mediate the " meeting " of meaning with linguistic expression.
And ? Why doesn't this happen, then ?
Because the two have opposite natures. Meaning is based on our knowledge of the world, which bots do not have. Besides, words are not just a mechanical association between form and meaning.
Paradoxically, the intellectual limitations of bots I'd say , came from the fact that they have no body. Yes, I know. It doesn't " make sense ", right ?
Human mind and language are embodied, they have bodily origins. The same neural mechanisms that allow us to feel - also create our conceptual systems. The mind is made up of ideas that are in one way or another - cerebral representations of the body.
A neurologist discovered that damage to a certain brain area results in the inability to understand metaphors and abstractions. ( for stupidity, it is still being investigated ).
The linguistic creativity of a chatbot expresses thing Already formulated by humans. No matter how large the linguistic corpus to which the bot has access, the messages generated by it cannot be infused with new, own ideas. A chatbot is very helpful in providing data, but otherwise , nothing more than a great imitator. The act of true creation requires a state of detachment from reality, and its logic .
And this can only be the profound human.
When you say that " something make sense " - it means that you understood it.
" The understanding of human language appears - along with generation - in the définition of a chatbot, intended to understand and generate human language, with the aim of predicting the next sequence of words, in a specific context " , says Chat Gpt 3.
The ability to generate text is truly remarqable, not to say incredible, but the claim to understand human language is just that - a claim. A chatbot cannot "understand "anything, things cannot " make sense " for him, due to the simple fact that Chat does not operate with meanings, like the human mind. To give a bot language processing capabilities linguists have formalized language into mathematical, binary descriptions, excluding meaning.
The meaning was excluded not because it was not important, but because that even nowadays we don't have a theory of it. The generative syntax available to a chatbot should also be accompanied by a generative semantics, for to mediate the " meeting " of meaning with linguistic expression.
And ? Why doesn't this happen, then ?
Because the two have opposite natures. Meaning is based on our knowledge of the world, which bots do not have. Besides, words are not just a mechanical association between form and meaning.
Paradoxically, the intellectual limitations of bots I'd say , came from the fact that they have no body. Yes, I know. It doesn't " make sense ", right ?
Human mind and language are embodied, they have bodily origins. The same neural mechanisms that allow us to feel - also create our conceptual systems. The mind is made up of ideas that are in one way or another - cerebral representations of the body.
A neurologist discovered that damage to a certain brain area results in the inability to understand metaphors and abstractions. ( for stupidity, it is still being investigated ).
The linguistic creativity of a chatbot expresses thing Already formulated by humans. No matter how large the linguistic corpus to which the bot has access, the messages generated by it cannot be infused with new, own ideas. A chatbot is very helpful in providing data, but otherwise , nothing more than a great imitator. The act of true creation requires a state of detachment from reality, and its logic .
And this can only be the profound human.
November 10, 2019
This is a very clever early reader that had my kindergartener's attention while helping her practice sight words. A CHUH Library Elementary School Book Club pick.
June 4, 2019
My niece is starting to want read stories own her own or out loud to her little brothers; and she loves this series. She read me the story to me first and then I read it back to her.
February 13, 2020
Fun first robot book!
May 27, 2019
A fun early reader! We both laugh as my daughter reads this again and again. Well done.
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January 30, 2020I found this quite clever. Z is beyond this ability-wise, so I think it may be why she did not enjoy as much as I'd hoped. I will definitely borrow again when V is ready.
January 10, 2020
Humorous, and perfect for beginning readers.
January 3, 2020
Maybe if he just would have said please, Zip’s bot wouldn’t have thrown a pie in his face. 😁
December 28, 2019
Simple, sweet, early reader with some rhyme and humor.
April 30, 2019
So, it just like a robot is getting so, so fun. More robots and more and more is coming and it made him own self a cup of tea. And still with the other robots.
I love it so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much. Because is like a movie theater but you can read it. Yeah. I just love it.
I love it so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much. Because is like a movie theater but you can read it. Yeah. I just love it.
March 21, 2019
-A- did not like it. It wasn't my favorite either, but it was good.
March 28, 2019
Zip the alien zaps a bot and tries to give it instructions which go hilariously wrong before he discovers a solution.
May 15, 2019
Fun early reader
August 12, 2019
Zip is introduced to karma when he tries to create a bot he can order around. Cute!
September 3, 2019
A great reader with repetition, picture clues, some rhyming, word family intro, and plenty of humor to keep emerging readers engaged.
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October 29, 2019Cute. Simple. Fulfills its purpose.
November 17, 2020
When Zip gets super bossy with a robot, his demands backfire. Can he learn some kindness and how to help himself and others?
Hmm, I've never heard of flinging pie to teach someone to be a bit more gracious in their requests and/or learn a little independence, but it seems to work here. And Zip's attempts to get a new and better robot completely backfire with hilarious results. A good story to talk to kids about independence and how to ask for things. Hand this to scifi fans just beginning to read.
Hmm, I've never heard of flinging pie to teach someone to be a bit more gracious in their requests and/or learn a little independence, but it seems to work here. And Zip's attempts to get a new and better robot completely backfire with hilarious results. A good story to talk to kids about independence and how to ask for things. Hand this to scifi fans just beginning to read.
November 28, 2023
Searing insight into our coming world of AI.
Plus, nice pie-in-the-face gags are crowd-pleasers.
I wonder if a young reader would know that Zip is the alien's name but also a word.
I liked the illustrations.
I would have preferred milk over tea with the pie.
Plus, nice pie-in-the-face gags are crowd-pleasers.
I wonder if a young reader would know that Zip is the alien's name but also a word.
I liked the illustrations.
I would have preferred milk over tea with the pie.
June 6, 2019
Space themed for our summer.
July 24, 2019
3 stars emergent reader
November 25, 2020
Zip's robot creations revolt against his bossy behavior. He comes up with a solution to make peace.
June 19, 2021
Zip's commands to his created robot backfire in his face.
September 23, 2021
Yay for books my 1st grader is confident in reading independently!
March 20, 2022
Only reading all these robot books to make Dave wonder!
November 4, 2022
Milgrim's got the touch. Programmed for the newest readers, but still plenty fun. Supplementary material for parents and other educators.
August 14, 2023
I enjoy a good visual gag involving a pie. Zip manages to redirect the robots with a pot of tea. A clever ending.
January 31, 2022
If you could poof a robot to bring you tea and pie, would you? But Zip learns it might not be quite that easy... With simple, rhyming text, sight words, and word families throughout, The Adventures of Zip series is an excellent choice for the earliest of new readers. Best for preschoolers or Kindergarteners, ages 3-5.
June 11, 2020
So, he said to get tea but the bots got pie and at the end he zapped tea. They ate tea with pie.
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May 30, 2019
Cute. Very beginning reader.
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