Educators Books

This book is a wonderful gift for a loved one.
It is inspiring and a pure joy to read.
I highly recommend it.

Recommended by kindergarten teachers. Great starting books for beginning readers. The words are easy to read and it can help develop a high speed level of reading before going to more difficult books. The content of the books is not boring and kids seem to like it. The stories are fun and innocent, the print is large, and the illustrations are simple (doesn't distract from the reading). The books also have a high word content, from 85 words to over 150 and get progressively more difficult with each book. The back page lists sight words, vowels sounds, and consonant sounds used in the book so you can review before reading. Great for homeschooler's.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. I'm writing this review because I noticed that some of Barbara Makar's books are going out of print and that's a great shame because these books are SO useful. - As the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. The illustrations aren't as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

I'm a reading specialist and author ("Teaching Kids To Read for Dummies") and I use these great little reading books all the time. Just as the publisher's review says, they're phonetically controlled and have cute illustrations that kids can color. I especially like the illustrations because they're not as babyish as some, which means that if your child is starting to read later than his classmates he won't feel embarrassed by too-young looking pages. One more plus for these books -each one gives you a list of the sight words you'll come across in the story so you can run your child through them in advance.

Primary Phonics is a series of books designed to teach children to read. Each book contains a different, positive story and each is 16 pages long. The approach of this series is simple, yet profound: If you teach a child the sounds of the letters in words, then a child can sound out most words himself.

Most beginning reading books start introducing long complicated words, such as "while", "please" and "said" earlier than most children can read them. The theory, is that the children learn these as "sight" words. The problem comes, when a child has too many "sight" words to try and remember. The Primary Phonics readers (set 1) start out with only five sight words: "a", "the", "on", "to" and "and". These are listed on the back cover of each book. The rest of the words in the stories (in set one) are three letters or less and in set two, four letters or less. The first book in set one has only two vowel sounds to learn and 13 consonant sounds. As the books progress, more vowel and consonant sounds are added to this base. The method allows the child, as he reads, to learn and remember the sounds of each letter. By the end of set two, the young reader has progressed to seven sight words, 17 vowel and 17 consonant sounds.

These books have been around for many, many years and have taught many people to read. My mother purchased these books when I was a toddler at the recommendation of a private school teacher. I was "reading", these books at the age of three. This year I have been tutoring a family of homeschooled children, who were severely behind in their studies. Many have ADHD and severe dyslexia and have been labeled as "unteachable". I used this series of books for one boy in particular - a nine year old who could barely say his alphabet when he started. Within just two weeks he was soaring and comfortably reading these books.

There are also corresponding "workbooks" that go along with this series. They are a wonderful addition as well. They aren't necessary to teach reading, but can be helpful in learing to write and spell the words. The illustrations and words are the same as those in the readers, but also teach the children to recoginize the color words (yellow, red, etc...). I highly recommend this series to parents and teachers who want to help their children learn this important skill. They can help children of any age level or with any learning disability, read.