Nonfiction Sight Word Readers Parent Pack Level A: Teaches 25 key Sight Words to Help Your Child Soar as a Reader!

[[VIDEOID:b615c36d640185dceb1f562a9bade763]] I was excited about a set of books written with only sight words. Unfortunately the majority of the words used in these books are not sight words, nor are they decodable (readers cannot sound them out). There is one sight word featured per book, great idea, but the other words on the page are not. Words like "leaves", "school", "bike", and "neat" make these books too difficult for beginning readers who know 20 or so sight words and can sound out CVC words. This is a great set to practice reading using picture clues, or maybe for older students who need interventions with sight words, but this is not what we thought we were getting when we purchased "Sight Word Readers". It would have helped if there were examples of the insides of the books in the product listing photos, including a video to help others understand what's included.

WITHIN MINUTES, my child went from not being able to read to reading short sentences. Please note: this has ALOT to do with him looking at the pictures and "figuring" out what is on the page because it's a lot of repetitive sentences. However, he was SO proud of himself and eager to "read" another one, which has never happened before. He starts kindergarten in this fall, so I am glad to have these in my arsenal to help get him ready. He doesn't care for fictional "Mat sat. Pat sat. Mat sat on Pat" stories. He got bored easily with those. But the real pictures of animals and people and places and things caught his attention quickly.

My review is a response to some of the negative reviews.
Some complaints on these readers mention that the books don’t contain decodeable words (words the kids can sound out) in addition to the sight words.
For example: “I can exercise.” The sight word is “can”. The word “exercise” may be too long to sound out for beginning readers.

My thought is this:
The kids are learning the sight word for each book. They are building confidence and even learning vocabulary. This isn’t an opportunity for decoding or learning to sound out words, so if that’s what you’re looking for-these aren’t the right books.

I like them because they are establishing confidence in reading. They can use clues from the pictures to decipher the text and they can say the whole sentence on their own without help- while also learning the sigh word that is repeated on each page.

We do the same book for a week, and take time at the end of each book to find the sight word on the back page.

I would recommend making a word wall to review the sight words you’ve covered.

And remember- keep it fun! If this is your child’s first exposure to reading- a big win would be, them learning to love it, and not to be intimidated.

My daughter can read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words with short vowel sounds and the 5 digraphs she knows. She can also read about 30 irregular words, many of which are the sight words in this set. Based on the good reviews I thought she would be able to read these independently to work on fluency. No way. There are too many hard words. In the book, "He Can Hop," you will encounter such words as, dive, swim, walk, eat, slide, dream. In "What They Do" you'll encounter: cook, play, slide, drive, climb, fight. Words from other books include: apple, lemon, pear, peach, orange, friends, balloons, presents, decorations, leopard, flowers, superhero, and more.

Also, there isn't any story line to these books. It's just a series of photos with descriptive sentences. The book "At School," which is for the sight word, "at" contains one sentence per page: There are backpacks at school. There are books at school. There are crayons at school. There are snacks at school. There are balls at school. There are blocks at school. There are friends at school.

If all you want to do is take a beginning reader and have them find the sight word, then this set will do that. If you want a beginning reader to work towards independence and fluency, this set will definitely disappoint you. I was able to find most of the Steck-Vaughn Phonic Readers [[ASIN:0811451593 Steck-Vaughn Phonic Readers: Student Reader Set 1 Tom and His Mom (Phonics Readers)]]set on ebay. You can sometimes buy them on amazon, but they are usually very expensive. They have CVC words and engaging stories with photos or drawings. They're 8 pages long each. The beginning set is short vowels and the next set is long vowels. There's also the Now I'm Reading [[ASIN:1584762039 Now I'm Reading! Level 1: Playful Pals (NIR! Leveled Readers)]] set. It's not as engaging as the Steck-Vaughn books, but they're cute and have some humor.

I would return this Scholastic set except my daughter opened the package and used up the stickers before I knew what was happening. It is a total waste of money. By the time she can read words like "builder," "pretending," and "eagle" she won't be interested in such simplistic and non-engaging books.

These have nice pictures , but they have too many non decodable words, ie words that beginning readers can sound out without phonetic rule breakers. They encourage the child to look at the pictures and guess the words rather than relying on actually sounding out the words.

Perfect set for my grandson who will be going into the first grade this fall. He was tired of the "Bob Books" so when he picked this set out he was happy. They are great using photographic books to help him with his sight words & reading confidence. We are pleased with the purchase. After 2 weeks he is re-reading the entire series again and enjoying them still. It was a great purchase for him.

These nonfiction sight word readers repeat the sight word of focus on every page, and have simple, repetitive sentences I bought them to use with my beginning readers (kids who are just starting to read words). The pictures and topics are engaging. I would recommend this series to teachers and parents who are looking for good books to support reading practice.

I went ahead and got all the sets after ordering the first one. My daughter LOVES these! She’s been a little behind on learning to read because she lacked the confidence to try. These little books are easy and repetitive and give her to confidence to practice and sound out unfamiliar words. They wouldn’t be great for a more fluent reader because they are so repetitive and not super interesting, but for a total novice lacking confidence they’re excellent!

Great little books for beginning readers. The are short enough to read several a day which gives a sense of accomplishment. The pictures are bright and colorful and very helpful to enable children to decode non sight words. I have the entire set and I highly recommend them!

This is an outstanding set of books for beginning readers. And I do mean BEGINNING readers. These would be the very first books that parents or teachers can use to help children learn to read. This is rated in the "A" guided reading level. Once your young reader is comfortable reading the level A books, then you can move on to the level B books, and so on. It would be very helpful to have all of the early reading books categorized according to the guided reading levels. It would help parents and teachers choose the correct books for each child's specific reading abilities. But until that happens, look for sets like this, which include the guided reading level.

Each little book is eight pages long, which is plenty long enough for brand new readers. Full color photographs appear on each page.

I donated this set to my local elementary school's reading program, and I can tell you that the beginning readers love these books. They love to learn about animals. This set allows even the very first readers to learn something about animals, although in very basic terms. The children love the great photographs in this set of books.