Can anyone recommend books for 5 year olds?

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Particularly ones that will help with learning to read?

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Surely someone can recommend us something?

The Biff, Chip and Kipper series are good for early readers and developing readers. You can buy them in sets (I.e. Level 1, 2 & 3), I bought them for my DS last year when he was 5 as they read similar books in school. Try the Book people website as they were reasonably priced.

I think one of the sets includes a guide for helping you child to read with you and also understand phonics.

Thanks @MichelleJ79
Will check that out now 😊

Your welcome, hope it helps.

Find out what your school uses and DON'T buy that. If your child is already familiar with a series they'll end up bored stiff - and if it's your eldest, imagine how many times you'll have to revisit these characters!

I used the ORT Songbirds series with my two purely because they were very keen readers early on, but speaking now as a school librarian, it's the reading TO your children that makes the most difference at this age. Pronunciation, inflection, drama, rhythm, rhyming, comprehension, inference, visual literacy (interpreting pictures) - these are all skills that come from listening and looking at books with an adult, not decoding phonics, and they're all skills that encourage the joy of reading.

My August born was a slower reader and she started on the Dandelion Launchers, then moved on to the Dandelion readers. There are some posts on here about them I think. Far superior to ORT and Jolly Phonics because the whole books are made up of decodable words. You can buy them online, I think the website is Phonics resources 🤔.

We like the songbird phonics ones by Julia Donaldson. You can often gets deals on a set on the bookdepository.

Yes to Songbirds Phonics. If you want to support reading the (paid) app Reading Eggs is really good too.

I have a 5 year old, and 'Biff, Chip and Kipper' are the pits.

Our local library has a great selection of early reader books; Peppa, fairy tales etc. Farmyard Tales are quite nice too.

Reading anything is good though...the Playmobil catalogue has kept my daughter busy for ages😅