Phonics books

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Morning all!
Ds starts primary school in September. He's had his nursery report and it says to continue reading books with him but especially ones that concentrate on phonics.
Does anyone have any recommendations please?
Thank you!

I would maybe say it's best to see what the school use so you can use the same to help learning at home, our school use the monster phonics range which not all schools do - I mean it's all the same ultimately in phonics but the different ranges approach it slightly differently

Julia Donaldson has some fab books “songbirds” which you can usually pick up second hand. They have six different levels. To echo pp though, see what school do: my children's school started them off on the books with no words

What a good idea, thank you, I hadn't even thought of asking his school!! Glad I posted on here now :)

There is also an online resource called Oxford Owl. Our school does use it, but you can sign up as a parent too. It gives you access to some phonics books. I don't necessarily like reading books on tablets with children and I find the website itself is rubbish, but it can give you a feel for the different books/levels before you invest in proper copies of the books.

Thank you for that @Katinkak8 , and yes I agree I prefer a real book to a website, but I'll have a nosey at it for ideas!

These are the books we used. I started my children off on them during the Autumn half term (so they’d done some phonics in school) and did a book a day. They finished them by the Christmas holidays so I moved them on to the Project X Alien Adventures books after then.

Theres a website called Oxford owl which has a lot of books you can read online we used it during lock down.

DS absolutely loved the Usborne Phonics readers. You can usually find them 2nd hand or there's a set on Amazon for about £20.

Shark in the Park and Toad Makes a Road were his favourites.

Songbirds again. Much better than our school reading books at the lower levels.

Thank you!

I have been having a look at all the suggestions and it's like a trip down memory lane! Biff, chip and kipper books came up, I remember reading those myself in primary school many many many years ago!

My daughter loves Biff, Chip and Kipper. I got a used set off ebay that includes books from level 1 to 5. It's amazing how quickly she progressed on them over the course of a year.

Speak to the school. The teaching of phonics has become really tight with a consistency and fidelity to one agreed programme. Find out which programme before trying to teach him/her and possibly confusing your child.

The other ‘strand’ to this is to develop ‘a love of reading’, so reading to your child, sharing different books, knowing about favourite authors etc.

The expectations on schools come from the document framework. www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-reading-framework-teaching-the-foundations-of-literacy

Reading eggs was good for us.

I'm still a fan of the Biff, Chip and Kipper books! You can get the level 1, 2 and 3 online quite cheaply. My children really liked them.

I really like these two books/packs:

www.examninja.co.uk/eyfs-books/reception/phonics/reception-phonics-sounds-and-blending-reading-and-writing-kit-ages-3-5-read-write-inc-9780192748522-0192748521/

and

www.examninja.co.uk/eyfs-books/reception/phonics/10-minutes-a-day-phonics-ages-3-5-dorling-kindersley-9781409341413-1409341410/

The pack is quite a colourful set of 'things to do' and the 10-min book is a similar, informal bit of work with phonics. Plenty of people will moan about books and say they should 'learn all this through play' or whatever but mine loved sitting down with me and working through the exercises!

@RichSherl i understand what yoy mean about people moaning! My son loves books! When he started nursery they were surprised how much he engaged with the books, carefully turning the pages and looking at the pictures as well as listening to the story. I always remember my mother regularly taking me to the library and I do the same with my son. We are lucky that we have one just a few minutes walk and a larger one a short bus journey away. During the holidays we will prob go around three times a week, the staff will probably be fed up of us!!

I remember hearing a nursery parent saying that her son had received a book for his birthday and that she threw it straight in the bin, I couldn't believe it!!!!!

God I sound like a snob!!!😅