learning to read - which book set?

[mysonsmummy]

am just finishing the phonics with ds 5 and starting to put sounds together.

which book range is best to start with - ive found these at the book people:-

Oxford Reading Tree: read at home 13 bks
The Snowman, Picnic Time etc

The Magic Key - Oxford Ttree 12 books

Usborne Farmyard Tales 20 bks
Poppy/Pam

Thanks

What do they use at a school ? tbh none of those you mention are truly phonic based so if you want to continue emphasising them then use the Jolly Readers(related to Jolly Phonics) or there are one or two other series whcih make that transition, one may be Rednose Readers(?). The Magic Key ones would be hard for a beginner (think about Stage 6-8 equivalent of ORT)and tie in with the tv shows while the Read at Home are a more gentle introduction to the same characters and are the same earlier levels to the mains ORT series used in many schools. Ours have enjoyed all those you mention and for Ithe Usborne ones we had a read-along cd of the farm stories

anymore phonic based reading schemes for a beginner. thanks

Jelly and Bean are supposed to be very good, but I've never used them.

chekc out your library as well for things like Dr Seuss ( Hop on Pop is an easy one)

I have used Jelly and bean books and they are good. They start of very easy and have a gentle progression in difficulty.

At the moment we using the Jolly readers which are excellent value from amazon. You can buy the red level for just over £10

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/203-8839943-9330332?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=jolly+readers

which I think is a bargain. However they progress very rapidly.

I avoided the oxford reading tree, vitually every school in the UK uses them. When your child starts book at school it would be a bit boring to get the same books that they have already read.

Bobs Books are excellent
They use them at dd's montessori nursery and I got a few sets when in the US
I imagine they're available on t'internet

here infact
BOB Books

I have just bought the Collins Big Cat phonics set from the Book People and they are very good.

Jelly and Bean are great too, as are the Joly Readers. The red nose readers are OK but not coimpletely phonically based - I would wait a bit for those until all 44 sounds are well ingrained.

The ORT songbirds series are OK too but progress very quickly through the levels.

You can buy lots of other books and share ther eading, you reading the hard words and he reading the ones he can read.

Have fun!!