Biscuit 12-Book Phonics Fun!: A Box of 12 Mini-Books Featuring Short and Long Vowel Sounds (My First I Can Read)

My grandson loves Biscuit! You can't go wrong with phonics. So happy I found this. Can't wait till he gets it on Easter.

My daughter absolutely loves dogs so I purchased the Biscuit book set to get her excited about reading. We started her on First Little Readers and Bob books which were great for my other child but didn’t work as well for my younger (age 4). Although she read them, she didn’t enjoy reading them. But with the Biscuit books, she would get the little box out and already have the next book out and ready to read. She read 5 books in one sitting the other night!She enjoys reading more now and is progressing, but I wouldn’t say these are true beginner books as they have big words (7 letters long), multi-syllable words, and blended consonants that a beginning reader would not be able to figure out on their own. The illustrations are simple and cute but do not really provide any clear context clues to how to read the sentence.These are good for emergent readers but not absolute beginners.ConstructionThese are mini-sized books that are 5 inches x 5 inches, perfect for little hands. There are 12 pages in each book with alternating text and illustration, so it’s really only 6 sentences per book. I do like that these books are numbered so my daughter would remember where she left off and likes to put them back in order when she’s done. It’s also great that there is a word bank in the beginning that we would go through all the words out loud before starting the book.

I bought this set for my kindergartner. I was finding most of the "beginner" books I was getting for her (and even those provided by her school) were just a bit too hard for her. These books are great. They contain sight words as well as simple phonics words. Most of the books revolve around a certain letter sound (for example, short 'o') and the first page lists most of the words that will be used in that book (separating them into categories of words to sound out, new sight words, review sight words, and fun words). The pictures do sometimes give a visual cue for the words, but not so much that I consider it a huge issue.The books are numbered and I would recommend reading them in order as they do tend to build on words from earlier numbered books. The second in the series was the first book that my daughter was able to read completely on her own and I think that was a very encouraging moment for her. She also loves Biscuit and enjoys the cute but simple stories and pictures.I was expecting these would be board books, but they are actually floppy little "booklets." They are very small, simple, and short. The box seems like it will probably get ripped up fairly quickly. Despite this, I would highly recommend this set for anyone who is just starting out with reading - particularly those who get frustrated or overwhelmed with longer stories or books with a lot of difficult words.One more thing - prior to getting this set, we had a couple of the regular Biscuit books. My daughter enjoyed me reading them to her, but I was not too crazy about them. Just about every page ends with "sweet puppy" and "woof woof." It got a little old. These little books don't have that problem.

these are just what I was looking for, I am teaching 3 children 4 years of age right now to read. I am using the Bob books level 1 and 2, a variety of scholastic readers including phonics and sight word readers, Phonics Practice Readers level 1, and Now I'm reading level 1. all these books are coming together nicely, butFor one of the children many of these books are too difficult and aren't moving at a slow enough pass or they just have too many words in them that frustrate him. Except for the Bob books box 1 set, those he can read pretty well.these little Biscuit books are just right for him.An example:Book 8 short eBiscuit and the nest1. An egg fell from the nest.2.Get help, Biscuit!3.Woof! Biscuit went for help.4.The little girl saw the egg.5.She set the egg in the nest.6. "You are the best pet, Biscuit!"I like that they aren't all phonics based, They are more natural reading, after reading with the child a couple times, The child can point to the words and work on reading it themselves.I like that they are little less reading than the regular Biscuit books, which would be a nice next step for your reader.I am using the following sets with this child:-Biscuit phonics fun (I can Read)-First LIttle Readers A boxed set-Sight word readers scholastic boxed set-Bob boxed set level 1-zac the Rat: Starfall boxed set(Also available to veiw on-line for free)With the two 4 year olds that are more advance I am using along with the above sets.-Now I'm reading level 1-Phonics Practice Readers level 1(the first 10 books)-these are alittle expensive, but very nicely done.I am also using printable emergent readers and leveled readers that I have found on-line. Hubbard's cupboard has some nice onse. Along with Making learning fun.

My daughter is really struggling with reading, and these books are definitely helping. They were recommended by her teacher. I like how they help with phonics. For example, one of the books focuses on short e vowel sounds. Right in the beginning it spells out for you a bunch of words to read together so that the child grasps the short e sound. So it might list words like: get, hen, well, egg. I'm making that up, but just trying to give you the idea. Working through them, my daughter is more confident in reading. I am seeing improvement. The stories are ridiculously easy by adult standards, but I feel like they are extremely focused to "get the job done" and make the goal and the path to get there clear to kids in a logical way.

Bought for my five year old for learning the short vowel sounds. These are very good books for children just learning to read. Very simple, no difficult words! They are not bedtime story type books (unless you want to read them that way) but rather a teaching resource (as most phonics book sets are). There is not much text on each page but that is fine for beginning readers as it's not too overwhelming and gives them success!! I used them along with sturdy letter tiles to build the words and sounds that he was learning in the different books along with some word families flash cards that we have. He also did a small amount of writing of the words/sounds in his exercise book. This was all really simple and quick to do. I don't think you really need to do all this if you don't want to as you could just buy the books and read them together and leave it at that. I still think it would help your child with reading. My son does read quite fluently now for a six yr old. These were a valuable addition to our collection of reading resources. The character (Biscuit) is very endearing and my son just loves this little puppy and all the antics he gets up to. IMO it's a good starter as once they have mastered this there are plenty more Biscuit stories to go at for when they are reading more proficiently and they have already been introduced to the character. We have also purchased the Biscuit Storybook Collection [Hardcover] which he also loves and reads without any help.Update: I also notice that there is (soon to be available) second set of books that teaches the long vowel sounds.

I bought these for my 5 year old reluctant reader. She doesn't seem to find them particularly interesting even though she loves dogs and the pictures a quite sweet. I've struggled to find anything that she will read to be honest but I have to agree that these really are very dull. She likes quite complex stories to be read to her and she also loves verse and poems. I think its very difficult for new readers to grasp the sing song nature of poems when they are reading it themselves and its hard for books to be interesting enough using simple words. I've tried a variety of books including joke books and I've had the most success with the red nose readers by Alan Ahlberg. These combine humerous pictures and play on words which seems to appeal to her much more than these books. Also in some of these books there are really very few words so easy for her to read and because of the pictures they hold her interest. Having said that she hasn't spent a great deal of time reading these either. I find once she's read a book once she loses interest and wants to read a new one.I also bought the biscuit hardcover story collection which is a lovely book but again she has shown little interest. I tried reading a line and getting her to read a line for one of the stories and I read some of the stories to her at her insistance. She hasn't asked for them since. The stories are a little more interesting than these books though and my 2.5 year old quite like them so this book will be used more.

awesome set of books

My 5 year old is loving, loving reading these. Much more productive in terms of learning than the readers that come home with her from her SK teacher

Excellent difficulty level. Average of 3 or 4 words per page. My 3 year old is loving learning how to read with these.