Great to learn reading skills!
342981
Both my grandchildren love putting the puzzles together. I then ask them to spell the word. It has be great with learning reading skills
882863
My 3 year old knows this whole book by heart. We have a lot of fun reading his together before bed, and I think it is giving her a nice jump start on learning to read!
4890750
We are working our way through these sets as my sons learn to read. We found out about them because they were used in his Montessori preschool. These sets are a great way to learn to read.
592726
I came across this book twice before actually buying it, at first thinking it was just another "Teach Your Child to Read..." book.
One thing I like about this book is that it incorporates phonemic awareness lessons to be done before actually beginning the reading process. This surprised me, because most parents don't think to do this kind of "work" with their child. I had already done some of the suggested activities with my little ones (when I bought the book I had four 2-4yos in my daycare - two were mine.)
We started the program with the oldest three who were at or near age 4. All three had fun "playing the letter games" as they called the lessons. All three began reading very quickly. Two went off to public school, while I homeschooled my daughter. She is now 5, has started her "official" kindergarten year, and is reading at a late 2nd grade level. I have now started teaching my youngest with this program. He is a bit tougher, and doesn't beg to play, but the method is working with him, and he is beginning to understanding the "sounding-out" process!
I have to give this program 5 stars because I have seen it work...not with just my own children, but with other children, too!
Blessings!
3942183
I would suggest this series for anyone who want to improve reading skills.  I have used it for over 20 years in my classes.
4462354
Love it! I bought this for my little boy to use as practice over the summer. Each page has a specific reading comprehension skill to focus on. Each page as a short reading passage and fun activity. Awesome! I bought grade 2 and 3 after I bought this product.
2009661
When my son was almost three he began to read with this set of books.  Until then he used a video "Letter Factory" to teach him the letters and sounds.  This set of books was a perfect transition for him to begin reading.  They are cute books!  Kids like them.  He went to the Bob books after these, but they just aren't as endearing.  What is great is that they learn the phonics portion and feel succesful because they are so short.  But they also give a list of a few sight words and "fun" words for the kids to memorize.  This is key and how they learn at a faster pace.  We also had a set of beginner sight words for him to memorize.  He thougth these three things were fun, not work, and now he is such a great reader.  We are really grateful for this set of books and highly recommend them to everyone with young kids.
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The Pre-Level 1 books have been great to help teach my 4 year old the style of reading.  There are pictures in place of words placed sporadically throughout so she gets to "help" me read the story.  It's helped teach her how to read the pages and not guess what's going on based on the pictures.  It's been a great first step for reading for her and she loves them.  It helps too that they have a bunch of these books with the Disney Junior characters which make them extra fun!
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leapfrog has it together......period!
these books are great for learning.  there are some definite larger words my son can't get. but that's good, it challenges him.
6 years old and what I feel is learning to read at a higher level.
1009466
Remember reading this book as child.  Got it for my son to help him learn to read and he loves it!
4325002
I used this with my son right after he turned 4 and not only is he now a great reader, he was begging to do the lessons!  Sometimes he would want to do 7 lessons in one day!  He is 5 and reads books that are geared toward 3rd graders.
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You definitely need the little readers to go with this book. It starts out at the very beginning sounding out words- not with word families though- just sounding them out like you would read them, It has rule breaker words combined with short vowel words- This method has worked great for both of my children learning how to read. My son was struggling with reading until we started him on this, now, 5 weeks in he is reading pretty fluently- short vowel words and some sight words, enough to get through week 10 of this 36 week program in 5 weeks and reading!
467118
Absolutely LOVE these! They were great for my daughter who is just learning to read. She is so excited about them. I plan to purchase several sets as she finishes each. These gave her confidence in her reading ability and were just short enough for her to not lose interest in reading them.
1309543
The title says it all. I bought this for my "learning to read" grand daughter and she loves it. Great!
965312
These books are great! My 4.5 year old is sooo excited to be able to start recognizing words! My 3 year old can even follow along with some! Great purchase!
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Just started using these Bob books with my 4 year old.  They are great books to start teaching reading skills.  They are very short books so they can finish a book easily to gain confidence.  I was amazed at how quickly she is learning to sound out words.  She now begs to read me books each night.  :)

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I purchased these books for my 5-year-old daughter who is beginning to read on her own and these Step Into Reading books are excellent as they have a high-interest factor that motivates her to read. The stories are also wonderfully illustrated in full color. The story here is of a young girl who witnesses a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up almost everything in its path along the way! The story is fun and hilarious and had my daughter laughing as she read!

These Step 1 series are recommended for preschool-K - the stories are in large type and the vocabulary is easy. The stories are also in a rhyming format which makes them easy and fun to read, e.g. "I saw a snowball on a hill. It rolled along and picked up Bill!" The full color pictures also provide contextual clues as to the word being used in the text. These early readers have raised my daughter's confidence level in reading, and she is doing so well that I'm purchasing the Step Two books (Preschool-Grade 1). I use these books in conjunction with sight words to reinforce her recognition of common vocabulary.