Books & Teaching Tools

Here are some books for kids that you may find helpful:

Books for Begining Readers:

• Random House Publishing has a wonderful step based reading program for beginner readers.
  Follow the link below to view the 5 series collection of children’s readers generally priced around $3.99 per reader:
  http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/books/step/books/index.html
  Phone: 1-800-733-3000

• Harper Collins is the publisher of a reading series titled ‘My First: I Can Read Book’ Series.
  Titles are: Biscuit Finds A Friend, Bath Time With Biscuit, The Day I Had To Play With My Sister, I See You Saw. Readers are $3.99 each with big print, easy words for pre-schoolers, cute for kids!
  Phone: 1-800-242-7737 Also, you can visit http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher to browse a large selection of educational books.

• Available on the Web or at your local bookstore are these are flash cards in a box from School Zone. 110 words most used in reading.
  Price of flash cards: $2.79 Affordable!
  Visit this publisher at: www.schoolzone.com

The “A-Beka” Home School program has the best reading program we have seen for children. It’s very colorful and extremely complete in covering phonics and sight-reading. They also have wonderful teaching aids.

If you are interested only in purchasing “readers” we are listing theirs below for their early readers and phonics program. We don’t list every teacher’s aid as well as you can look further into it if you like, but these are great to get you started for those just starting to learn to read.

• PRESCHOOL: ( 4 year old Kindergarten)
  • “Little Owl Books” Eight full-color books with easy to read words and stories for beginning readers. –$5.75 a set–
    • Titles:
    • Old Mac Donald’s Farm
    • Tip
    • Wig on a Pig
    • Gus
    • Matt the Rat
    • Pet Pete
    • Mike’s Coat
    • A Pal
  • “Little Books 1 to 10″ Start with very basic vowel sounds and go on to consonants, blends, words and simple sentences. Includes delightful pictures for the child to cover and activity pages for review. —- $5.75 a set.—-
  • We would also suggest the “Miniature Alphabet Flashcards” —$2.60 a box—
• KINDERGARTEN: (5 year old Kindergarten)
  • “Basic Phonics Reader Set” (12 books) —$11.40—
    • “I Learn to Read,” A,B,C,D
    • “I Do Read,” 1,2,3,4
    • “I Can Read Well,” 1,2,3,4
• Also recommended:
  • “My Blend and Word Book” $3.30 (48 pages of attractively presented phonics blends and words for reviewing at home).
  • Letters and Sounds K5:” Students enjoy varied activities as they learn and review vowel and consonant sounds, blends, one-and two-vowel words, words with special sounds, and sentence comprehension. $9.95.
  • “Home School K5 Phonics/Reading/Writing Curriculum/Lesson Plans” (includes cursive) $39.95
• SUPPLEMENTARY BOOKS:
  • Supplementary readers to go with this set are: “Our Week,” “The Little Pie,” “Jesus Helps,” and “The Big Green Bird.”
  • Summer Library for Kindergarten: ” Reading for Fun Enrichment Library:” 55 books for reading enjoyment about children, toys, and animals, character building stories; and Bible stories. Title examples: “Joe Camps out,” “I am a Bee,” “Gail and Sue,” “The Gingerbread Boy,” etc. —$33.20—- If your child completes these two courses mentioned above (4 & 5 year old Kindergartens); he will be reading well on a simple level as well as having a good phonics base. Then you can follow up with further books from any good reading program
  • A Few Other Teacher’s Aid’s we would suggest for teaching reading would be: (All of these are great but we put a star by the ones we thought were the most necessary if you can’t afford them all.)
    • Basic Phonics Charts $9.20
    • Clue Word Cards** $9.20
    • Basic Phonics Flashcards** $20.20
    • Phonics Game Charts $17.20
    • Blend Ladders ** $16.20
    • One Vowel Word Cards ** $9.20
    • Blend Practice Cards A $8.20
    • Blend Practice Cards B $9.20
• FOR MORE INFORMATION ON A-BEKA:
  • Order Department (Mon. -Fri. 7am to 6pm C.T.)
    1-877-ABEKABOOK or 1-877-223-5226
    Internet Services: www.abeka.org