What reception level reading books to buy for home?

[Cazzr]

DS started reception this year and has always been interested in books.

He has loads of books at home, various levels of difficulty but I'm wondering about buying a series of books specifically for his reading level, rather than for us to read to him (we'd still do this).

He does bring home books from school, a library book of his choice once a week(no restriction at all) and a 'proper' reading book from the Collins cat range weekly it seems but had the last blinking butterfly book for 2 weeks...(currently wordless but I gather this is only temporary).

Anyway, if anyone has a recommendation for a specific range (preferably not Collins Cat as assuming he'll get these eventually) of books I'd appreciate it.
Thinking with a difficulty of about a sentence a page??

[Feenie]

Unfortunately, Malaleuca, it isn't up to you to judge whether other opinions are valid, professional or otherwise.

[NoahAndTheWhale]

I picked up some books for reception DD at a jumble sale - will check what they are. I mostly read them to her but she has a bit of a go too.

DS did once buy an ORT book at a school booksale as it was "one I skipped and I wanted to know what happened"

[NoahAndTheWhale]

That was DS who skipped it rather than me. I was not as interested.

[piscesmoon]

The most important thing that you can do is give your DC a love of books which is why the library is so wonderful. You don't want to get bogged down in decoding-just support the school.

[Octavia09]

mrz, totally agree those piperbooks look ugly. My DS loves colours; he likes seeing beautiful pictures and listen to the stories which develop his vocabulary and his imagination.

[NonBlondGirl]

We do use the local libraries - have done since eldest was 6 months old but the range in our current local ones is not that great. IME the quality of book available at libraries can vary wildly.


Tend to use
www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_home_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100 for cheap books - have picked up most of the classics and some brilliant newer books. They also sometimes have reading schemes for sale - we have project X which the DC do bring to be read - two youngest like them too though they don't 'read' yet.

I still find the reading chest useful - DD1 only gets a reading book once a week and one read through and she is remembering not reading. We now know she absolutely loves non fiction books - which she has never had from the school.

I'm sure using the reading chest and having lots of exciting books at home are not vital to learning to read but we think it has helped DD1 and something has enthused her and her siblings.

[ThePumpkinofDoomandTotalChaos]

yes, banana series are v. nice, well written, nicely illustrated, and I quite liked the ladybird superhero phonics books or the usborne level 1-4 books. also some of the younger kid picture books are good to revisit at this stage. don't spend too much though on a specific reading level, as hopefully he'll be able to read harder stuff a few months down the line. so this is where people are coming from in suggesting the library.

[unmumsy]

Hi there, first ever post for me!
I can recommend Ladybird read at home Level one, Gold stars, Oxford read at home and Superphonics. I got superphonics from the book people- they are a bit boring tbh but do the job.
If my daughter gets a bit dejected with it we take turns reading a line each, which has done wonders for adding some expression!