Can anyone recommend some easy/starter reading books?

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My ds is in reception and for some reason the school just send either normal story books, which he can't manage by himself (i do read them together with him obviously) or books with just one cvc type word on each page, which is a bit boring.
So just thinking of getting some more suitable books and doing it with him at home. We have a couple and he finds it more rewarding to be able to be able to read or have a good go at the book by himself, but don't really know what to get or where to get it from? I don't know what his reading level is, or if he has one?! they've not told me anything about it. Just thinking of books with very simple stories and sentences, if there are any sets like that? - any recommendations?
Thanks

Usborne Very First Reading books are good. There's a story bit for the parent to read on one page, and a simpler bit for the child on the next. I think there are only about a dozen of them though, and they progress in difficulty quite quickly.

Or how about something like a Doctor Seuss book, and just read it to him, but let him have a go at any words you think he'll be able to manage?

DD's school has this approach and I actually find it a lot better than the typical reading schemes. The stories are more interesting and lots of difficult words are learned this way instead of "tricky words" list.

DD was fine to read most of the books by herself at the end of Reception.

If you want to look at simple reading books I like the Usborne First Reader series. They often start with just 1 sentence per page, still lots of large pictures and they do lots of traditional stories.

I just go to the library with DD and let her choose from a category I think suitable and we moved on to story books with chapters by now.

A friend likes the Songbird collection

www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=218821

But I personally don't like buying these books as I found that DD just remembers them by heart. Getting them from the library means she can get new stories every time instead of re-reading or better remembering the sentences.

Thanks. Actually getting from the library may be a better idea! but think I will give the usborne ones a try too

Try the online versions available at MN learning and on Oxford Owl

oh didnt know about that, thanks! will go and find it

My local library had some basic phonics books (reading corner) and DD's first ever book she read was "Run Rat Run" which was nice and basic, "rat ran....rat hid" etc etc...

www.mumsnet.com/learning/ebooks

Definitely see what schemes your local library has, as individual books can be pricey. I've got DS (also reception) onto the Start Reading books, at a level just above where school has him. He gets the confidence and loads of praise by reading those ones to us, and has the comprehension/punctuation side following with the school. Seems to be working well, especially as they're two different schemes with the same banding colours. I'm hoping it means he doesn't get bored, which seems to be the main problem with learning to read given they are being read much more interesting stories by us...

Would second the start reading books (think they go up to stage 9) DD loved them...

The Oxford owl website (linked to earlier is good) and you can check out the reading chest (but not cheap). However the reading chest website does have helpful info on which level to pick for your child of you wanted to use Oxford owl etc...

Thanks Mrz. I'm not the OP but that link to MN e books is dead handy. Didn't know of those. My daughter loved the other e books (ORT?) but only found a few on that.

I am buying the RWI books on Amazon. £8.70 for ten different paper books. Just ordered the third set this week.

Oxford Owl (not ORT)

Beginning Reading Instruction -www.piperbooks.co.uk

I got my dd the songbird phonics books from the Oxford reading tree, they are written by the author of the gruffalo. They have 6 books for each level. My dd is also in reception and is on the stage 2 books as they have the double letter sounds we've been doing at school. I think they are fantastic. I got them off amazon but you can get these type of books in whsmith.