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Level 1 Reading Books
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Unlike many older reading schemes, every story in Reading Made Simple is built entirely from sounds and words already taught. If your child hesitates, they can always sound it out — never guess.
The Reading Made Simple Tom stories will help to develop confidence in reading - the keystone for motivating the early reader.
Based on the experiences of young children, I have written these simple readers to be truly phonetic (i.e decodable), unlike most 'phonics' readers, which tend to use many words that the child doesn't know and cannot decode.
They follow the order of sounds as taught in this programme.
Matching worksheets can be found here.
Based on the experiences of young children, I have written these simple readers to be truly phonetic (i.e decodable), unlike most 'phonics' readers, which tend to use many words that the child doesn't know and cannot decode.
They follow the order of sounds as taught in this programme.
Matching worksheets can be found here.
How to make the Phonic Reading Books
This is very simple
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The reading books are in colour, but if it is too expensive to print in colour, then just set your printer to print in black and white. |
Level 1 Introductory Lessons: a, o, i, u and e
For the young child or special needs learner
These short vowel activity packs, also in PDF form, each contain 2 reading books which precede Level 1 for those who have had difficulty building a sight vocabulary of the words decoded in Level 0. These phonics reading books only use vocabulary introduced in the basic red word box for the five vowel lessons.
They help to build a bank of known words on which reading fluency can be built.
If a child has/has not read the CVC and Consonant blends Reading Made Simple books and has not begun to build a bank of known words, then use these reading books first. They should only be used in conjunction with the FREE lesson packs in which they are contained to ensure that pupils gain the key phonics skills needed to move forward in reading. They should only be used in conjunction with the lesson indicated below each pack, or they cannot be expected to help your child.
These books must be read in order, as vocabulary builds from one book to the next.
They help to build a bank of known words on which reading fluency can be built.
If a child has/has not read the CVC and Consonant blends Reading Made Simple books and has not begun to build a bank of known words, then use these reading books first. They should only be used in conjunction with the FREE lesson packs in which they are contained to ensure that pupils gain the key phonics skills needed to move forward in reading. They should only be used in conjunction with the lesson indicated below each pack, or they cannot be expected to help your child.
These books must be read in order, as vocabulary builds from one book to the next.
Access the 5 Vowels Course, with 20 teaching videos for £6 here. See the video for an example.
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After reading the above books, choose the best course for your pupil.
1) Continue with the 'Tom Stories' series below
2) Use the Special Needs Reading Books here, written for older readers aged 7+.
1) Continue with the 'Tom Stories' series below
2) Use the Special Needs Reading Books here, written for older readers aged 7+.
Here are the Reading Made Simple books to accompany the Reading Made Simple Level 1 Phonics reading scheme.
Please see also our CVC readers and Consonant Blends reading books, which should be read before these books.
Taught alongside the phonics lists, as provided here in Level 1, these books form a complete phonetic reading scheme that can help all beginner readers to progress as quickly as possible.
Children should only read the books for each sound once the sound has been studied for at least a week.
These books start with 'ck' words, and the vocabulary builds up as the child learns to sound out new words as more and more sound families are learned.
The focus is purely on phonics and decoding so that there are no nasty surprises of words a child does not have a strategy to read, which can make a child guess and then become discouraged.
Please see also our CVC readers and Consonant Blends reading books, which should be read before these books.
Taught alongside the phonics lists, as provided here in Level 1, these books form a complete phonetic reading scheme that can help all beginner readers to progress as quickly as possible.
Children should only read the books for each sound once the sound has been studied for at least a week.
These books start with 'ck' words, and the vocabulary builds up as the child learns to sound out new words as more and more sound families are learned.
The focus is purely on phonics and decoding so that there are no nasty surprises of words a child does not have a strategy to read, which can make a child guess and then become discouraged.
- Each book builds on those before, by practising CVC words, CVCC words and previously taught letter patterns as they progress through the Level 1 sounds.
- These books only use the odd words as introduced in Level 1.
- They do use words from the sound families already taught, but that are not on the lists. Such words are introduced gradually. These words can all be sounded out using the knowledge gained from studying the word family lists up until that point. These words are indicated within each book. Do help your child to see the sound family patterns in the words and help him/her to sound them out. Such words are kept to a minimum in the early reading books to help the child develop confidence and fluency. In later books (from around 'ing' onwards), they help the child to slowly apply his/her developing phonics knowledge to a wider vocabulary. This, in turn, opens up the world of reading to the child.
Free RMS worksheets to help develop phonics skills
For the child doing RMS for reading and/or spelling we have FREE mini workbooks - one for each sound- easy print on one page of A4 folded in half. Children love these little workbooks and find them to be the best part of their lesson each week!
Set 1: ck to ar reading books
These early books aim to build up a bank of familiar words that the child can begin to remember without sounding them out every time. There are at least two books per sound, each focusing on five sound-family words.
These books will help to build fluency, reading stamina and give confidence to the young reader.
Please ensure that you talk about the story as the child reads, to develop comprehension skills alongside decoding.
These books will help to build fluency, reading stamina and give confidence to the young reader.
Please ensure that you talk about the story as the child reads, to develop comprehension skills alongside decoding.
Download the books indiviudally for FREE below, or purchase this section of the Reading Made Simple reading scheme as a whole book in either PDF format here, or soft cover from Amazon, see above.
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See our NEW softback reading books: available from Amazon
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Set 3: ou to ea saying 'e' reading books
This section is currently being rewritten.
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A more challenging reader for the more able child
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A more challenging reader for the more able child
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A more challenging reader for the more able child
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Set 5: ow onwards reading books
As we learn more sounds, your pupil will be able to begin to read simple books. Share the reading so that you help with any words that s/he cannot yet sound out, or to model how to sound out longer words.
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For once W Rules has been taught
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Our monthly Nature Explorers nature magazine for early readers would provide plenty of stimulating material for your child to read, while learning about God's world.
Written by the author of Reading Made Simple. See here for more details and a sample PDF copy. https://natureobservations.weebly.com/nature-explorers.html |
