Product Description

The Fun with Phonics series offers the best and most fun way for children to learn the basics of reading, spelling and writing.

This fantastic pack has everything you need to engage your child with phonics and teach them the basics of reading. The pack contains five full-colour books that will introduce your child to the most common sounds that form a foundation to literacy.

This exciting pack also contains a 30-minute DVD featuring the popular ‘Fun with Phonics’ programmes as seen on Cbeebies. Through a mixture of lively, colourful and entertaining sequences, this unique DVD will support your child’s learning by bringing phonics vibrantly to life whilst clearly demonstrating how to voice, read and write the new sounds they are being introduced to.

In Fun with Phonics: Reading, your child will be taken through all 44 of the most basic phonics sounds that they will have to learn at school and will be encouraged to recognise written sounds and words towards being able to identify and read short and simple words on their own.

The pack also contains vital information for parents on understanding phonics, with advice on how best to enjoy Fun with Phonics: Letters and Sounds with your child.

Suitable for children aged 3-5 years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22361 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
I bought this along with the other pack, Letters & Sounds. I couldn't believe the value for money, to get 5 reading books and a DVD for Amazon's price of £5.99. The books are numbered from 1 to 5, so you start with the easiest sounds first. The characters in the books are bright green, and my 4 year old loved them. The added bonus of the DVD makes learning to read so much easier, and my child is always asking to watch it, so desparate is he to learn to read like his older brother. A great buy, highly recommended.

time-wasting con
I simply can't believe this rubbish is still being promoted. There are so many things wrong with it.

First, researchers have shown time and time again that reliance on picture clues is extremely counterproductive - it is a version of the "guess what is in teacher's head" method of "instruction" which has taken over since the 1970s. Do these people have no grounding in the psychology of perception?
Do they not know that to connect a stylised line drawing with a real-world object amounts to learning a language of representation just as much as learning the correspondence between letters and sounds is learning language. Of course children can learn to memorise this tawdry junk but it doesn't mean they are learning to read.

Secondly it is a serious mistake to assume that learners need to master all "42 main speech sounds" before moving to proper stories. The concept of single-phoneme decoding has long since been transcended by more logical methods which enable much younger children to progress to books with more interesting content at a considerably faster rate.

Thirdly, why on earth are so-called educators promoting television as a means to reading? It is obvious that reliance on televisual communication leads to shrinking attention spans and the demise of the written word.

If you really want to give your child the best start then look at a decent scheme.
Use proper books and let the child hold and read them herself. But start with graded real phonics story books appropriate to the level of phonic understanding. For example Jescott Bodkin's lovely illustrated books start at the point where the child has mastered only the first 22 letter-sound combinations producing real stories which only employ words which can be spelled with hard consonants and short vowels . At the next stage the books introduce combination sounds highlighted in a diffferent colour within the words ( a bit like Dr Seuss but not requiring adult assistance).

These are neither prescriptive (like Cbeebies) nor lazy and moronic ( never leave a young child alone in front of a tv set!!!) give them a well-planned book that they can actually read. Have a look at Bodkin's On Robin Hill On Robin Hill: A Red Level ELF Book (ELF Books) the scales will fall from your eyes.

Fun With Phonics Book
Bought this product for my 3 year old who likes to watch this on cbeebies.
We have had a great time going through the activities in this book and DVD, a great fun way of learning and lots to do and to look at to keep them interested. Good learning tool, Excellent value for money.