Customer Reviews

Spectrum Reading, Grade 1 (Spectrum (McGraw-Hill))

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I'm homeschooling and I could go on the road with the Spectrum books. After trying several different curriculums, I stumbled across these books in the bookstore. They were an answer to prayer. There is an answer key in the back, so I haven't had to haul around a huge teachers edition. These books, all of them (we homeschool a 1st grader and 3rd grader and we use Spectrum Spelling, Writing, Reading, Language Arts, Vocabulary, Phonics, and Math) are exactly what we needed. My first grader LOVES the reading books. We ordered both, the regular Spectrum, and the one written by Mercer Meyer with the Little Critter characters. Childrens books (especially the ones written at her level) are SO expensive, and these reading books come with so many stories, and they have exercises for reading comprehension. I REALLY can't say enough. One thing I'd like to see them do? Add science and social studies/ history and geography to their mix... art and music while we are at it!!

I'm homeschooling a first grader and we started this book last year and he LOVES it. My son has some challenges in reading/writing but for some reason just breezes through these lessons happily.

The book mixes stories with quick comprehension, writing, and vocabulary questions that keeps each lesson feeling quick and interesting.

We recently lost our first copy of this book on a recent road trip, and I had to replace it fast - all the other reading curriculum books in my box left my son confused, frustrated and cold.