20 Best Books For Learning To Read (2022 Updated)

I have an early reader, getting stuck on phonetic exceptions and I was hoping this would help (at least help me to guide them). This is a systematic guide using early childhood principles of repetition, and repetition doesn’t work for many neurodiverse learners, and no gifted learners.

It’d be great for tiger parents wanting their kids with zero phonemic awareness to start school ahead of the pack, or kids with special learning needs who need to take a step back with lots of simple repetition.

I fell asleep on the first page, and if my child had seen it they would have looked at me like I had 2 heads and wouldn’t have finish half of the first lesson.

My dad taught my sister and I with this book (college math and highschool math proff. ) and we were reading above a college level by 7th grade. My dad is your typical boomer, so electronics was never part of our childhood, and they were used as an incentive.

He swears by this book and would until the day he died. He taught in an underprivileged school district, and had a 12th grade student who could not read. My dad used this book and at the end of the student’s 12th grade year, they could read.

We gift this at every baby shower, he recommends this to strangers on the streets, and family.

Over the past 25 years we have been teaching our kids to read using this book. The eldest learned quickly in K before we moved. First grade, and a poor teacher/district set her back to not being able to read.

We concluded it was our fault for allowing others to control our children’s education. We decided to homeschool. When we founds this reading book, it was almost instantly helpful. She took to it rapidly sometimes taking 2-3 lessons a day.

By the end of that summer after 1st grade she had regained all her lost reading skills and was now easily surpassing children in the neighborhood in 2nd, 3rd and even 4th grade. Fast forward 20 years and we are still using the same, ragged book, and it is still effective.

Four other children have learned to read using it. Each retained and grew in reading skills well beyond equivalent public school peer grade level all their childhood and even the 12year old reads above college grad level.

We are now using this same book to teach our two youngest children. The 7 year old reads better than public school kids 2 years older than he is and the 5 year old is becoming very impressed with his ability to read words where he once just saw random letters.

Every day is a new discovery for him and his brother now just sits and reads actual books, without pictures, as often as he reads those with. To those advocating that this is not “advanced” and suggesting other programs for older children.

I say they are wrong. Each child will be ready to read and to learn to read at a different time. But, think about it, if the child has trouble reading “advanced” is NOT what you want to throw at him or her.

This set of lessons teaches the child to use one of the greatest advantages the human brain has, pattern recognition. The child learns to recognize distinct patterns in the highly variable English language.

It uses a slightly modified written symbolic representation of those sound patterns to make them easier to recognize and learn. It then moves the child, once the patterns are learned through a logically simplified process of normalizing those new pattern recognition skills so that they can then read unmodified text with the same confidence and accuracy as they could the symbolic text.

It’s a really ingenious method that has worked for and continues to work for all seven of our children, each with distinctly differing personalities and learning types. The older (now adult) children are already fighting over who gets the book for their kids.

We plan to buy a copy of this same book for each of them.

This is just another Minnie Mouse for all things Minnie. My granddaughter loves it. Is keeps her engaged and more eager to learn

Brooklyn loves her new story book with sounds if her favorite cartoon character. I highly recommend this book, lots of enjoyment and laughter

I bought this for my one year old granddaughter and she love it. The sounds are adorable. Shipping was fast.

the books are fantastic and very easy for little hands, the pictures are helpful for my 5-year-old to pick up cues, guess what the story is about and spell out the letters sounds to try and read. absolutely love these and couldn’t recommend them enough.

the books are interesting which adds to the love of learning. Have also purchased level B, C, and D. Vey happy, highly recommend.

I purchased this set because my 6 year had trouble with her reading. So I did some research about what should I do to help her. Then I came across this book set on google and immediately I purchased it.

This set is awesome! It has 25 books in it with pictures to encourage my daughter to read and it also has a guide for parents to help their kids to improve their kids reading. My daughter loves this set and her reading has been improved and she’s now more confident in her reading.

I’m very happy.

Books are just under 15x15cm, most have just a few words on each page, very clear and simple. My kid loves them, she gets a kick out of pointing to the words as she (at this stage mostly uses the pictures to guess) what they are.

Easy enough that they can be remembered after a read through by a parent so the kid can have a go after. She was so proud when she “read” one front to back! Is starting to sound out and recognise the words.

I remember books like this at my school when I was ever so small. They are great. 100% recommend.

A wonderful book allowing the readers to have fun while teaching young children to follow directions. I purchased this book from a school book fair one year not realizing how much enjoyment my family would have reading this book.

I have never seen my grand children laugh so hard as we sat around the table and enjoyed following the directions inside this book. I can still “see” the reactions the younger ones had when they turned the pages to find out what the result of following the directions given to them revealed.

I recommend this book for pure fun and for teaching younger children how to follow directions without teaching them to follow directions. We love to read books and learn something new. This book provided a fun and interactive way to learn the concept of following directions every child needs to learn to follow for everyday life to ready them for their school journey.

It has been loaned to others to enjoy as well. We still read this book today after five years receiving the same teary eyes laughs we had from the first reading adventure.

This book is enchanting. When I read it, I was delighted by the clever device of the book, and enjoyed the interactive nature of it. But this was nothing compared to the reward of reading it with my grandson.

He had so much surprise and joy when we turned each page! (The book asks the reader, for example to shake the book. Then, when you turn the page, the colored dots that had been neatly in a row are “all shook up” on the next page.

) For me this was clever, for my grandson, it was MAGIC. He’s a rambunctious child, Santa had brought transformers and trains. But he asked to read the book with me more than once, and then requested it from his dad at bedtime.

It was a HIT!.

A great product that is better then any app you can download. It also helped my grandchild understand that not everything is so much technology based. She had to use a dvd player and follow along. She’s doing better with her reading now.

Looking to purchase the next set for her summer break.

Great home school reading tool for little ones. My niece cant wait to read. She wants to start right now! Great product. Received quickly. Thank you.

I bought this Level 2 because the Level 1 was so great for my 5 year old son. He gains confidence through reading at a very simple level and has fun learning to read because the lessons and books aren’t too advanced.

The DVD is a great addition to the book lessons and my son LOVES placing the stickers after he has completed a lesson. Already purchased the First Grade Level 1 for after my son has finished this level.

GREAT PRODUCT!!.

This author is great for kids aged 2-5. This particular title is fun for littles learning about colors or for those who already know the combinations but want to take it to the level of actually mixing.

If that’s the case, I like to give finger paints along with the book as a gift so that they can actually try things out for themselves. If you prefer the no-mess route, the book on its own gives the reader the opportunity to “mix” colors and see the result.

I bought this as my three year olds loved ‘Press Here’ by the same author. They responded just as excitedly and told me it was ‘magic’. It’s very entertaining and a fun way to teach secondary colours and colour mixing.

Perfect present for 3-5 year olds.

Started with my 3 1/2 year old son – he loved it and picked it up very fast. It’s really easy to follow as a parent and the dvd is such a fun learning aid. Now at 4 he’s already reading and we’re only on level 1.

Excellent learning tool for all young budding readers! :).

We have a 3 year old who’s been asking to read. Started him on HOP and it’s working great. Thanks HOP! You changed our lives for generations! (Or it might. We will find out in a few generations )

So far, so good; we just received it and started on it. I am uncertain if our son is dyslexic but since local school district kicked him out because they determined “he is autistic”, I am totally on my own to determine how to educate our disabled child.

So I’ll give this a chance.

My review would probably be better if there were new batteries in this toy/book – I could’ve captured how it works in video. My daughter is three and probably autistic (we are in the process of evaluating) and she really took to this toy, pouring over it daily til the batteries wore out and the pages got sticky.

It has helped her with her vocabulary a little bit and even though she doesn’t talk much she knows how to spell “Scout”, reciting “S-C-O-U-T” on many occasions during play. So it’s in English and Spanish, and I think it says words and plays music if I recall (I really need to get new batteries and get this thing working again, my daughter still plays with it without batteries).

It also seems to spark an interest in reading. It’s a great toy to buy your child, and would make a great gift if you’re looking for something for a baby/toddler. My daughter gives it 5 stars so I do too.

I’m not sure how this learning book has so many good reviews. I like the concept of the book but It’s as if the touch buttons are way too sensitive and it can’t process what’s going on. Sometimes my baby touches 2 or 3 buttons by mistake and the toy plays the sounds all together and I think that is very confusing for a toddler that is learning words.

I’m very disappointed that there is no option to press the picture and get just the object word, you will get the sounds like in the animals, the dog barks, the cat meows, but the horse makes a gallop sound the frog makes a weird jumping sound or the giraffe makes a weird sound.

I personally don’t have idea how a giraffe sounds. I expected to find the most common animals like cow, rooster and when the baby touches the animal , to say the name of the animal and then the sound.

Definitely not a good purchase!.

Fun book!! Great way to teach children about pets/animals, colours, the body, mealtime, clothes, activities, outside, vehicles and opposites. Each page has interactive pictures that your child can touch and learn from.

Above the volume/on off button, there’s a switch with three categories words, fun facts and fun sounds. They have different sounds and songs your child can sing along with. If I could change one thing about this book is that when you set the book to fun facts and go to the page “animals” all the animals apart from the elephant has a “fun fact” when you’ve pressed the picture.

I find that odd because there’s loads of facts about elephants. The page doesn’t even give you a fact about the animal, it just tells you the colour of the animal. I know it’s a book for kids but they’re not really learning any facts about the animal.

Just the colour of it. Apart from that my daughter enjoys this book and uses it nearly everyday😊💕.

Positives: My baby loves it! Clear picture and Sturdy board book for small price. Hard to tear by the babies! Negatives: Small in size. But, if you want bigger the same book, you can find for a little bit more higher price! So, don’t complain about the size because under $5 comes Not that big size you might want! We have no complaint about the size.

Nice book, nice photos but the words pajamas and car are used twice. The word dog and puppy are used but they are the same animal. The word cat and kitten are used but they are the same animal. There are plenty other words that could of been used.

Our little granddaughter started Kindergarten and was doing really well with learning to read. Then the virus struck and it was the end of school for months, at a vital time in her education. The school was providing work but she needed more.

She was flying through it and we didn’t want to slow her progress. We bought another series of beginner readers, up to level three and then discovered these beautiful little books at just the right level.

So, as she returns to school, her reading has improved dramatically. We will keep supplementing her school books with additional little readers, until she is happily picking up whatever she wants to, and reading.

Perfect to help my nephew with learning to read. He loves the books. Some interesting stories. Very good for the price.

I have a four year old and we started the Littke a Reader series and glad we did. He’s never been thrilled About reader despite how interesting or fun I try and make it. These books are great for beginners.

A lot of sight words, rhyming, pictures go along with stories/words so they can put two And two together to fill in the word they may not know or sound out AND THEY ARE SHORT reads. Saves pre-schooler from crying and moms sanity.

My son love theese books. He was struggling to read, but because the pictures are relatable to the words he is able to figure out the difficult words or atleast try. It helps with his sight words as well and because her feels like he is doing well he now wants to read them all the time and attempt to read other books.

This is 25 books with roughly 7 pages in each. The words are very repetitive which helps them to memorize words. I would recommend along with a few eight words flash cards.

Excellent! My 4 year old loves doing these books and activity book with me. Buy them when target does a B2G1 free promo and the value is well worth it.

Was pretty good I would recommend this to other persons interested in getting their little one jump started in the early years. It’s easy for them to read and attempt to comprehend. It shows because the little ones give you an amazing illustration in there own words which helps in remembering the sight words and where to use them.

I bought these because they said kindergarten. But, didn’t realize until they came that there were many different options. The kindergarten ones are kind of advance with a handful of book series before them.

I should have bought an easier series for a new 5 year old.

Bob Books are great for new readers. I was looking for a book that focused on three letter words and simple pictures that tell the story. These books do it and now the new edition of ‘Sight Words’ are great since in Kindergarten these words are being introduced at the same time.

The characters stay the same from Book 1 Beginner Reader to the end of the series. I am definitely saving these books for my 11 month son from my 5 year old son.

These are terrific books and flash cards. The words in each book are repetitive, and the sentences are short, so my child picks up the words quickly.

I bought this book thinking it would be filled with simple words you would expect to be part of your baby’s first 100 words spoken. It does have a lot of what you’d expect as far as animals and objects, however I feel some of the words aren’t what I would expect.

For example, there is a picture of a stuffed animal labeled as “soft toy” and on the same page is a tower of fabric blocks labeled “soft blocks”. Not at all what I would think a baby would say. I would’ve loved to see a page of body parts (eyes, nose, mouth etc)—nope, but there are three pages of animals.

The first page is “colors” but instead of just labeling the colors, a colored object is shown and labeled (blue ball, brown goat). In all, my daughter does like the book, but I bought online and if I would’ve seen it in store and had the opportunity to look through it, I wouldn’t have purchased this book.

This has been a favorite book of my child since a young age. It’s good for babies as well as toddlers and beyond. Lots of pictures and themes (though a few of the pictures are not what I would have chosen—may be duplicative or hard to understand).

The only book my baby will sit through. He LOVES to pat at the pictures and has favorites on each page. I love the size of the book. With it being so big he cant just try to eat the corners while I try to read to him.

We started off with How to Teach Your Child in 100 Easy Lessons, which so many people swear by. My daughter HATED that book. We barely got through the first few lessons before I decided to give this book a try.

This book is so much better. We have been working on it for about 4 months now so I can now confidently say that I 100% recommend this book. My daughter is only 4. 5 yrs, so in order to not overwhelm her, we just do 1 page a day, 4-5 times a week.

We are about 1/4 of the way through the book and we are seeing great results.

We couldn’t love this book enough. this was the only book we used to teach our toddler son to read. We started when he was late 3 and finished shortly after he turned 5. He was reading a little before lesson 8.

We would let him color the pages as a reward when he finished reading. The book does not teach comprehension, but that’s a super easy fix just by asking your child questions about each story or asking them to write short summaries or sentences after they read as they move through the chapters.

Easy steps to follow for kids and adults. I have used this for both my boys when they were in preschool and both are reading above their grade level. I can’t say enough good things about this book. Go at your own pace for your child.

The pages are not overwhelming. I even learned a thing or two.

This Pete the Cat’s Super Cool Reading Collection is exactly that – super cool! The illustrations are bright and colorful and just plain cute! The sentences are simple and have the repetitive style that help kids learn.

My 5-year-old grandson loves Pete the Cat and I can’t wait to share these books with him!.

We received this package so fast. My son likes the 5 books that includes this package. He is in Kindergarden and he likes this cat. Also, i have always found this type of book comfortable and easy for my son learn to read.