Kumon Grade 1 Reading (Kumon Reading Workbooks) Paperback – June 15, 2010

These kumon books have helped a lot to my son! Practice makes excellence! Great price, self pace without having to pay the monthly fee from Kumon. Also, I found this book at Barnes ans Noble and the price was tripled.

Best quality and learning tool!

My son is going into 1st grade and finished this book the summer vacation prior. He struggled a bit with reading during kindergarten but this book started off easy enough that he felt confident and enjoyed working on it. His reading and writing improved quite a bit by the end. The book is made of good quality paper and illustrations are colorful and easy to understand. We plan to purchase 2nd grade reading and have him work on it in during 1st grade. I would recommend going up a grade.

The basic layout is the student reads a passage and answers question for comprehension. The main focus is sequencing and vocabulary. It's ideal for honing those first grade reading skills.

While this is a good book, I do not think it allows independent work true to the Kumon Method unless your student is a confident reader. I used the Sight Words series in oder to get my son through this and the Grade 1 Writing. They recommend the Rhyming series but I did not find t as helpful as the Sight Words series. All my kids use Kumon and it this was another good one.My son is a 5yr old homeschooler.

I used this for my 4 year old daughter, who is in PreK 4. She was able to do most of it without help, although I had to read some of the passages to her toward the end. I find Kumon reading books to be more appealing because they are in color, very straightforward, and are a good supplement to a first grade vocabulary program at home. I taught her to read the first grade words, and this was a good addition to going more deeply into the first grade vocabulary. The books are very reasonable priced, and most importantly, I didn't have to persuade her to do them. Definitely recommend.

I have quite a few other workbooks which I have tried with homesccooling my first child. I discovered the Kumon books and really love them. My daughter does too - they are not as simple (and annoying to her) as the other books (school speciality, Learn at home... Those are OK, and i use them as a supplement to Kumon) Her reading and writing skills have jumped ahead since using the Kumon books, and only after about a month! This was after several months using other workbooks. I am very impressed, and have bought other books in the series. The math books and maze books are great too.Great content, Excellent quality paper too.

i have heard a lot about the institution so when i saw these workbooks i was hopeful, i didnt know it would be as amazing as it has been. My kindergartner, though he had started to read was very independent and always needed to be reminded to stop wasting time and finish his work, he also had to be explained for an extensive amount of time as of what was needed of him after helping jhi, with just two chapters on this book, all i had to tell him was, its homework time, and he would automatically take out the next chapter and do it in timely manner, also being able to grade himself gives him more motivation to keep getting more score. i am done with this book in a month and now i am ordering the next ones.. thanks kumon