What to read after Songbirds phonics Stage 6?

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Just that really. DS is 4 and has finished the Julia Donaldson songbirds phonics stages 1-6 set. He is quite comfortable reading them all by himself now. What series/level should I get him next. He starts school this sept so ideally I would like to get something relatively cheaply through t'internet to see him through the summer.
We do use our local library a lot but as they only sort the childrens fiction into preschool, infant, junior and teenage it's quite hard to find things at the right level and DS is a stickler for reading series in exactly the right order.

Any suggestions (or links to old threads which have probably asked the same question several times) would be appreciated.

Tricky one. If he's read all of them I guess his phonics is pretty good already? Probably best to stick to phonics based books for now though. There is this series fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/oxed/primary/rwi/Read%20at%20Home%20list%20of%20titles%20Sept%202009.pdf

that DS read in the first term of Reception. They are quite cheerful. He'd done stages 1-3 songbirds before those so not sure if your DS would find them a bit easy. I think we didn't bother with the level 1s but the others are worth doing. You could look on the Oxford Owl website for ideas
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Library/Index/?AgeGroup=3&BookType=Phonics

There you wil see some of those just mentioned, as well as some other series.

If you're not so attached to phonics there are the Ladybird Read it yourself series, although DS was better on these after doing more phonics- depends on your approach. I'm not sure there is an obvious series- oh I remember someone mentioning the Usborne Farmyard Tales being good for this age. There are Usborne Phonics books too in a series. They are a lot harder IMO and didn't really work for DS but they are attractive books.

Think there is a thread somewhere on here for "Early Readers". Enjoy!

If those are all a bit easy, have a browse on the oxford owl (change the age range to get harder stuff if you need to) and see what you think might take his fancy. I didn't have much success at our library until more recently with DS's reading but some do, so worth browsing and experimenting (saves money!).

Thanks very much for the reply Tgger, and also,for the links to Oxford Owl. it's not a site I've come across before.

I,ve got a few of the usbourne very first reading series from the library and DS likes those. We've had a couple of the farmyard tales in the past but DS found them boring (and to be honest so did I).
I've introduced him to chapter stories with The Horrid Henry early readers. He hasn't got the confidence to try them himself yet but he loves having a chapter read to him at bedtime and often finishes a sentence if I stop reading.

I am keen to stick with the phonics as although DS is confident reading the 6 songbirds stages and knows his individual letter sounds. I think he tends to favour memorising whole words more than sounding out when it comes to the combination sounds.

DD is on stage 4 so not as good as your DS although she did pick up one of the stage 6 ones (songbirds) and read it straight through with no problems.

We use the Oxford owl website and I have signed her up to reading chest for the summer until she starts school and gets books from there.

She also likes the Peter and Jane books and our library has a series of phonics books by Sue Graves which she loves. She also reads the tadpoles series of books.