Recommendations for 5 yr reading books

[Yogafire]

Hi I'm looking for reading books for my 5 year old over the summer - as in for him to read with me. Any good series I can buy online? I think usbourne have some but a hundred options appeared when I searched Amazon just now so would appreciate a targeted recommendation.

He has just finished reception and his reading is average (when I typed reading books for 5 yr olds into mumsnet 'search' it all seemed to be people wth 5 yr olds whose kids are 6 levels ahead!).

Thanks!

You should post in primary education, rather than homework corner.
You will get more response there.

I would suggest you take your dc to library and let them choose. Keep reading, and encourage love of reading is more important at this stage.

Neither DS nor DD liked reading entire books at that age. Books geared to them at that reading level were very basic stories, and they saw them as being more like school books than really engaging and loving reading.

What we did was left the likes of Jolly Phoncs and Literacy Lift-off for school, and read them stories at home. We got them to look at the words on the page with us, and try reading pieces. We'd see if they could try reading a paragraph of the story, and then we'd read some. That way, they got to hear a decent story, and didn't get drained by the whole experience, andmost importantly, stayed interested. They really liked the Dirty Bertie and Naughty Amelia Jane series of books at that age.

If you are looking for readers, mine did the Fuzz Buzz series in school. The stories follow on from one another, which helped keep their interest.

Thanks

The Apple tree farm books has a bit at the top he can read and more underneath for you. Book people usually have full set at great value.