Week-by-Week Phonics Packets

Really helpful for my kiddo

This is age appropriate for my rising 1st grader and easy for me to use with him (I am not a teacher). I wanted something easy and quick for us to pick up and do a page or two at a time. I appreciate how it gets progressively more difficult. It’s been easy to use and has a lot of educational topics.

I got this to work with one of my students over the summer. It is great. He is special needs so this is challenging but easy enough for him to not give up. If you are teaching someone to read this is a good start. I pair it with the Dick and Jane first readers. Some of the pictures are hard to figure out but that does not happen often. I will keep using these.

I am loving the contents, but perforated pages would have been great. I ended up tearing all of the pages out, trimming them and putting them in a 3 ring binder so the pages will lay flat. I don't think it would be such a big deal for older kids, but the younger ones learning to write seem to struggle.

This book is fantastic. It has 19 different activity formats, so your child won't see the same activities repeated frequently. - Structure: The first page of each week starts with an introduction the new skill. And there's a checklist for children to keep track of their progress as they complete the following 4 pages of the week. The other pages keep reinforcing the skill at hand and the last page of the week is a review and there are 5 stars to color and rate self-progress. - Difficulty: The book advances with the student, assuming the child is a kindergartener. Mine is interesting and going through the pages with ease. - BIG NOTE TO PARENTS: Your child will need help in reading the instructions. There are whole sentences in the early pages assuming that someone is helping the child. See the picture I added for page 14 as an example. The child is working on letter sounds, so of course is a child who can't read yet. This is a book to help you help your kid. Was my review helpful? let me know!

I love the layout of the pages. Main lesson and follow up questions to assess skills.

Great book to get kids caught up. The exercises are fun and concise,so they don't lose interest.

My young son is gaining confidence by the day. He struggled prior to get this book. Know he is able to read the directions with little assistance and we are just 40 pages into it. You have 5 pages per learning activity and by the 5 page of his lesson, they really grasp the lessons learned. Job well done…👍👍 Note: as a parent… you have to practice with them… This isn’t a book just to let them figure it out. You will see results but you need to engage with the learning.

Perfect progression through the reading sounds. Good for supplemental learning for an English speaker but isn’t learning to read in school (in French school). Helps to learn the English sounds to clarify reading learning.

My son is enjoying learning new rhyming words everyday.

Good

From an Australian perspective this is mediocre. Not bad, exactly. But full of American things (and other stuff) that will probably confuse young Australian kids. Many of the "bad" examples (for Australian kids) are related to cold & snowy weather. Mittens, snow hats, snow sleds, scarves.... The "school" has an American flag in front, so my kids had no idea what it was. One of the pictures is of a (I think?) a school crossing guard holding a stop sign ("stop" rhymes with "mop") ... But I've never seen a crossing guard looking like that in Australia so my kids had no idea what it was. Lots of pictures are pretty vague (for a kid). A pack of gum looks like chocolate unless you already know it is supposed to rhyme with "drum". (Does anyone even chew gum anymore?) Kids need to know that one mouse is "mouse" but multiple are "mice" and thus rhyme with "dice", which is the multiple of "die". The "mop" looks very much like a "broom". As a very early exercise kids are supposed to unscramble "onon" based on the hint that it rhymes with moon and is spelled the same forward and back. There's also a picture of a clock, so I guess it assumes they can tell time? (Also "wig" is used constantly as a rhyme for "pig". What kid knows what a wig is??) Overall I don't feel this is really a great book for my kids, aged 4.5. But isn't that about when you want kids to start on phonics? And if they don't know phonics how do they understand the concept of "spelling" to know how moon is spelled? Then you have that this is clearly an American book for American kids. You can work through it with very hands on parental involvement but there is way too much "oh, sorry kiddo that's a sled, that's why you couldn't figure out how to do this exercise".

This is one of those book you should get for homeschooling or just for review. Its laid out wonderfully and written in a way that is super super easy for kids to follow along with or as a parent teach your little one. There is a great balance of questions per page with pictures, it doesnt feel like your getting a big book with only 3-5 questions per page. Its a really good one!