Very motivating for the child who just wont!!!!!

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	• Playful Pals: Level 1 Nora Gaydos Innovative Kids, 2003 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very motivating for the child who just wont!!!!!

my son now six has known his letter sounds since he was four and just would not be willing to sit down and read even the simpliest of books to me, and I have a lot of emergent readers and leveled readers. This was the set That did it for us. He begs to read these books, he thinks they are so funny and they are wrote in a way that works for him. These books really concentrate on phonics and not very much on sight words, so be prepared to back up this set with books that use more sight words, like "go dog Go" and "Are you my mother" from DR. Suess.
If your child is resisting reading this set just might do it for you. 10 pages per book with a couple words to start and building onto the sentence with each page, encourages child to sound out a new word or two each page, but uses lots of familiar words from the previous page to help the child stay motivated and unlike other phonics readers these stories make sense and are fun to read.

This set focuses on consenant blends and is the second in the set of level one books about animals, the other level one set uses mostly 3 letter words, while this one has a larger variety of four letter words, but still using short vowel sounds. Words like: splat and flat.

The level 2 set works on long vowel sounds
and the level 3 set continues to add new letter combinations.

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great reading tool

This was a great way for my five year old in helping him read. He was so excited about learning how to read on his own and getting stickers for completing each book. I love these books and am planning to but levels 2 & 3.

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Now my Daughter keeps asking to read more!!!

Before we got these books we tried a lot of the ready to read paper backs that were Dora, Barbie and other topics. My 6 year old daughter would get frustrated since there wasn't enough repetition for her to help her internalize the phonics behind the words she was reading. The 'Now I'm Reading' series have been the best set we've found. The pictures are light years better than the Bob series. My daughter loves to read now. Tonight she asked if she could read all 10 in one of the sets. If you read the books in order, they'll build their skills in progression learning short vowels 1st and long vowels 2nd. She also likes getting the stickers to show that she is reading them. I really like the parent guide and questions at the end of each book. It helped me understand how to help her read beyond just listening or reading to her. My only complaint is that it was hard to tell how many sets there are at each level.

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Excited to Read

My daughter had been struggling to read more fluently so I got the Bob Book Series for her & it was such a struggle to get her to want to read them. A teacher working in a bookstore recommended this series & it was amazing how excited she was to read to me every night. We quickly went thru the Prereader & Level 1 & 2 & now I am waiting for the level 3 books to arrive. They are funny & the illustrations are nice & colorful. Loves putting the stickers on when she has finished the story. They made a big difference in her confidence & she can't wait to read them. Highly recommeded as a confidence builder!!

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The BEST beginning readers!

I highly recommend these books by Nora Gaydos for parents who are teaching their child to read at home. My son has known the sounds of all the letters and has been able to sound out three and four letter words with short vowel sounds since he was three. I thought he would be an early reader, but at age 5 now he has not liked any books we have tried as beginning readers until now. He became so bored with the Bob Books, McGuffey's primer, Step into Reading books, etc... that he started pretending he didn't know the sounds anymore. He still loved me to read to him, though, but he would not try to read by himself.

Then I ordered these books a few days ago and amazingly, he was so intrigued by the illustrations, he sat down and read three of them straight through to me. He has never been a fan of stickers, but for some reason, the incentive to place a sticker inside each book when you finish reading it really has appealed to him. We got the Animal Antics and the Playful Pals sets two days ago and he has already read five of the books three times each by himself! I am so amazed and excited that he is happy about reading again.

These books are very well done. They follow a good phonics program, with funny stories that actually make sense. The illustrations are superb and really get the child interested in what is happening in the story. I wish I could give these more than five stars! I also recommend the other Level 1 books called Animal Antics. The books are a little bigger but the stories are different and continue in the same vein as these Playful Pals. Both sets contain 10 readers each. You could do the first five of each set first, which are easier, and then the second five of each set. Happy Reading!

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Readers who loved the best-selling Animal Antics will snap up this new Level 1 book with its colorful characters in funny situations. - 10 stories focus on different short vowel sounds and simple consonant sounds - 40 colorful incentive stickers - Letter, sound, and word skills in an appropriate sequence for reading development - Strong picture clues - Extended activities - Parent Guide

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