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Get Set for the Code - Book B

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I purchased the ETC Primers A, B and C for homeschooling my 4 year-old. He loves the Get Ready for the Code books! We do about 6 pages a day and the activities on each page keep his attention. No boredom here! In fact if he had his way we would finish the book in about a week!

Primer B teaches the consonants p, j, h, s, n, d. Each letter has 12 pages dedicated to it. Your child will practice the shape of the letters, first by tracing the letter with their finger and then writing the letter in lowercase. Mixed in are pages with matching, same/different and coloring. There is one page for each letter that you will need the teacher's manual for the instructions. This series is excellent for children just learning the alphabet and letter sounds.

I love the A,B, and C books of Explode the code. My daughter felt such a sense of accomplishment when she finished book A and now looks forward to Book B every day when we homeschool. Although I am a certified Elementary teacher, teaching phonics is one of my weak areas and these books are really reinforcing the letter sounds for my daughter. I highly recommend these for PreK 4 or K. You do need the Teacher's guide for about 5 pages in each of the books. I bought an older version of book A and so I didn't need it. But, the newer versions omit the directions on 5 pages, unfortunately. For books 1,2, and 3, you don't really need the teacher's guide except for the Post Tests (or you could make up your own sentences for them to write down and pick one of the words for them to circle).

Save $$! You don't need to spend a ton on expensive reading programs to teach your children to read!

I have a degree in Elementary Education and have used the Explode the Code series to teach my three oldest children how to read and am now getting ready to start it with my fourth. My three oldest children were reading at the age of three years old. I was not pushing them... just working through the explode the code books with them and they took off reading.

I really like the way the series focuses on lower-case letters and small motor skills, in addition to providing a phonics foundation.

I highly recommend the series to everyone I know who is searching for something to help them teach their children how to read.

the explode the code series is fantastic and the A,B,C books are great warm ups for children just getting started reading and writing. I wish I'd discovered these books when my daughter was in pre-school because they were too simple for her in kindergarten. Each book focuses on a handful of letters and there is a lot of repetition, but that's good. The activities are interesting enough to keep your child engaged too.

We use the Code books to help our children develop their early skills. It's very basic but right on target.

This book is the second of three in a series for teaching the consonants. My preschool student looks forward to doing her "school work" each morning. Each lesson is straight forward and promotes sound and formation of the letter with a brief explanation of why upper case letters exist. The consonants are presented only as initial sounds in the first three books. The whole series of Explode the Code is a good investment for struggling learners as well as beginning learners who need a solid foundation in phonics. Explode the Code is illustrated by children and the pages are free from the typical "colorful distractions" found in many phonics teaching texts.

This is a wonderful series that teaches the youngest their letters and sounds at the same time! I have a friend who is a teacher and she said that she wished they would teach with this series because it teaches the letters and sounds together.

I love the Explode the Code and Get Set for the Code series. After years of researching (and purchasing) numerous reading materials for my kids, this is the one that I found worked the best for both kid and teacher (that would be me.)

Having a reluctant learner in the house has it's trials. After trying many other programs this one finally kept him interested and had enough repitition for him to retain the information. Kuddos to Explode the Code!