amyinva Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 My 6yo son is dying to read some of the Star Wars, Lego, or superhero phonics readers. But the ones I've seen aren't really based on early phonics. Are there any fun boyish early readers that don't have a ton of advanced words in them? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stine Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Not sure if this is too below his reading level (they are very basic, but still have a story to them), but these were good for my Star Wars lover. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Phonics-Boxed-Set/dp/0545479525There are two different boxed set. We only had the first and after further reading instruction we didn't need the other set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I marked my up with UPP markings and made it phonetic, my son really wanted to read them, too. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/upp.html. I also divided the syllables for him in the few longer words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 If he wants to try them, let him. He'll have fun trying to figure them out :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduemeche Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 All of my boys loved the Big Nate series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2Five Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Henry and Mudge, Cam Jansen, Dinosaur Detective are the few I can remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternallytired Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 If he's past the Elephant and Piggie (which aren't really boy, but are pretty universally appealing--all 3 kids and even DH and I liked them!--and good first readers), my kids thought Fly Guy books were pretty cool. The plot lines of those strike me as more "boy" though my daughter liked them, too. They divide them ridiculously into chapters, each of which is about 5 sentences spread over 3 pages. Maybe that would be a draw to him; my older kids didn't have anyone they knew reading chapter books, so it didn't matter to them. I'm still having issue with the leveled reader business. I was trying to find some good books for my youngest to work on, but all the "beginning" level books seem to assume a lot of sight word knowledge rather than being truly phonics/decodable--and the licensed-character readers were particularly bad about this. I had this problem with my older two, so I was all proactive and made a list of the good options at the library...and then we moved across the country. :-( 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 In general I've found most of the phonics early readers not very phonics friendly. For example the set of phonics readers we have for Star Wars has each book focused on a sound like short a, but really they are all on the same level for reading and need quite a few skills. They are short though. They were the first non controlled readers DS could read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReadingMama1214 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 My daughter sounds a little behind your son, but she loves the Elephant and Piggie and Fly Guy books. We buddy read them for now since she can't read all of the words in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underthebridge Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Julia donaldson's songbird series and the Oxford reading tree are very phonetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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