Reading Schemes

[nmum2013]

I will begin home ed with my dd next year. She will be almost 5 then.

I will be doing Jolly Phonics for learning phonics and reading etc
I am looking in to what reading scheme to purchase. Oxford Reading Tree is famous but so expensive!!!

Anyone used the Jolly Readers? Is it decent?

we live abroad and have no access to an English library so I do need to buy something!

Hi nmum you can read many of the ORT stuff for free here as e books Oxford Owl you just need to register with the site for free.

There's also the Book People which have reading schemes like the ORT and other books much cheaper than elsewhere but not sure if they deliver abroad?? The Book People

We also have younger children and we also use Reading Eggs which uses a mainly phonics approach. My two have learnt to read using this (and obviously reading lots of books together!) There's a big discount for home educators and it works out at about £25 per child per year Reading Eggs

Good luck!

Our library has a huge range of books including the Kipper lot. So I would suggest that the cheapest route would be to use their stock, it just takes a little time to sort through the shelves. The biggest factor on how well dd reads is how much work you put in by reading to/with her. You must have also done lots of prereading skills such as, I spy (to recognise initial sounds of words), segmenting (splitting words up into sounds whilst you play), blending (stringing sounds together to make words), linking the pictures of letters on a poster to their sounds, listening for the end sounds of words, etc...

Thanks Zen, I am looking in to the book people.

Maggi - as I said in my original post, I live overseas in a non English speaking country. I have no option of a library. I need to buy books.