Reading book at home

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Hi all

A little while ago, I bought the Julia Donaldson ORT Phonics songbirds books (the set of 36) to read at home with my son. We're coming to the end of these and I wondered whether any of you had any recommendations for what to buy next? Ideally, what I want is another set of 36 books to follow on from this set but I haven't found this online.

We do have the Ladybirds Read It Yourself series but they are a bit harder than the phonics books (Cinderella is in level 1 and includes "stepsisters", "fairy godmother" etc).

My son is in Reception.

Thanks!

And, irvine, you don't know which is which (gifted or less able) until you've taught the strategies which cause impairment.

So teach the whole lot phonics, properly, right from the start with no 'other strategies' nonsense.

(P.S @ irvine, I think the start of this post sounds as though I'm arguing with you....I'm not, I promise , just adding to what you said.)

@maizieD

I used to believe my ds learnt to read without phonics. It wasn't true. He was looking(more like staring at it for ages.) at phonics poster on the wall before he started reading.(He was kind of hyperlexic so he loved everything with numbers and lettes!)
Now I am certain he learned to read with phonics.

Even expert adult readers need an effective strategy when faced with unfamiliar vocabulary ...yes they could guess deduce from context but it's unreliable and not one we should encourage.

Context can be very helpful for deducing meaning

Who is arguing re teaching the whole lot phonics from the start? Other techniques further down the line don't always lead to impaired reading skills you have just pointed out.

Green, you have gifted readers. I have a gifted reader. Point is, what our children do/did may not apply to others.

I'd be very interested to know what 'other strategies' your children developed, GreenGinger2 and why they developed them.

I often find that just talking about 'other strategies' is misleading as the 'strategies' may not have anything to do with beginning readers learning to identify the word on the page but are, in fact, comprehension strategies. So best to be explicit.

After the Songbirds we got Project X Alien Adventures from The Book People. Highly recommend. My daughter thought they were cool and a bit Star Wars-ish.

Super, I'll check them out.

Hi all, thanks for your advice. I've just ordered the Project X Alien Adventures series.

Hi, I like the Alien X Adventures a lot. Series 1 and 2 were £30 from the Book People, no delivery charge.

Chose books they like. My dd school doesn't formally use a reading scheme and has very few books that even belong to one. They go with home reading being what interests the child and class reading being an interesting well written story. And yes they do have excellent Sats at yr2 and yr6.

Is it an independent school?

No. State primary with 60 intake.

But not following the statutory curriculum?

Mrz, not using reading schemes equates not following statutory curriculum?
My ds has read school books for only first 2 terms of reception. From summer term reception until now, he has always read books of his choice. Books are from home, library, school library and class library books.
Never really followed any book schemes.

No Irvine but not providing decodable books matched to the child's current phonic ability us.

Sorry mrz, for being dim again!!
And I realized that the school has bug club and teacher assigns books according to children's ability(though it's not must do task), so ds' school do follow a scheme.