The Complete Book of Phonics [Paperback]

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Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Complete Book of

The Complete Book of Phonics teaches children in kindergarten to grade 2 key phonics skills that they need to know as they learn to become independent readers. This 352 page workbook contains lessons that involve children in the process of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Children also learn to recognize consonant and vowel sounds. Creative activities guide them in the blending of sounds and in exploring familiar sound patterns.

Additional literature and helpful suggestions further enhance and cultivate children’s appreciate of reading. This workbook also includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions.

Over 4 million in print! The best-selling Complete Book series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information about a single topic or subject area. Containing over 30 titles and encompassing preschool to grade 8 this series helps children succeed in every subject area!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: American Education Publishing; Revised edition (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561892076
• ISBN-13: 978-1561892075
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete Phonics Program for a Fraction of the Cost, April 29, 2006

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K. Alphs (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Book of Phonics (Paperback)

This is the third book in the "Complete Book" series we have utilized in our homeschool. The book is a hefty 352 page phonics program kindergarten through second grade. The lessons teach the consonants, vowels, blends, diagraphs, phonograms, letter sound correspondence, patterns, decoding unfamilar words, spelling and pronunciations skills. There is plenty of coloring, cutting and pasting sprinkled throughout. The book is child/parent friendly with clear, easy instructions to follow and is printed in full color. We have utilized two other "brand name" phonics programs in our homeschool, but this is the winner hands down!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent buy, February 8, 2006

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Zahida Meeran (Hightstown, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Book of Phonics (Paperback)

It is a very good book for a kindergartener to learn phonics and to start reading. This is the only book I have been using on my 5 year old and we are able to learn really quick. It is very well arranged and worth the money.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Complete? Not exactly., August 22, 2006

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Lydia Joyce - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Book of Phonics (Paperback)

This book is appealing to children who adore bright and colorful workbooks. Its low price for an inch-thick full-color workbook is its main attraction.

However, its content is badly lacking! First, it is repetitive, going back over the same sounds in the same way multiple time. It is deceptive, trying to convince a parent that it contains three years' worth of phonics work when it doesn't move into the latter part of K until 2/3rds of the way through the book. It is full of errors--as a typical example, on a page that is supposed to be about the short A, "baby" is one of the words that the child is supposed to read. Yeah. Right. There are fewer than a dozen types of exercises, which are recycled in endless repetition. The pictures are sometimes so ambiguous that I have to look in the answer section to try to figure out what they are supposed to be. It handles many topics very poorly--for example, it doesn't teach long vowels until several hundred pages of exercizes, and then it throws FOUR different ways of making a long A at the child on the same page! It doesn't cover anything but one sound for each consonant, some basic blends, and simple long and short vowels--nothing in the least bit tricky, and nothing beyond the first grade level.

As a supplement, used with caution, for a good reading program, this has some value. My son is fond of worksheets, goodness knows why, and the ease of this book gives him confidence in his reading. But as a primary resource, its usefulness is very, very small.