I Can Read Phonics (My First I Can Read) Paperback – 10 May 2011

Bought to encourage my 8yr old autistic son who loves books and stories but is behind with his reading ability. He is currently into superheroes, so although I read the reviews I bought the set anyway.First, I must state that I agree with everyone saying its not really phonics or following the way the learn in phonics. However, there are lots of pictures and minimal wording. The subject matter is engaging and my son loves his set. It makes him want to read. As yet, he cannot fully read them independently, but that doesn't stop him from enjoying the books on his own. When we read them together, sometimes he will read the whole story, with help from me. At other times, we will share the reading, ie. he will read the words he can and I read the rest. Or lastly, if he just wants to enjoy the story, he will ask me to read it.I'm happy with the purchase as it's encouraging a love of reading. He saw the Spiderman set at his sister's school book fair and asked me to buy that for him too.

My son (4-5yrs) loves to read and loves all super hero's especially Batman. This pack is very well package and can be carried any where and there is also space in side for a snack and pack of cards/small toy figure, whoopee every boys dream. A boy in his class has been struggling with his reading (it's boring!). So for his birthday I bought a set for him.Yep you got it he loves batman. Though some of the words are a little difficult and above their level of reading they both persevere with sounding out the words, and yes the little boy is starting to enjoy reading, result. The books have a picture on one page and text of one or two simple sentences on the other. The stories are simple and each books promotes a theme such as, be good, have good friends, friends help each other etc. Also Superman and Wonder Woman make an appearance. I would like more of these sets for the same price but beware some of them are very expensive why I don’t know, check out Spiderman as an expensive example. All I can say is 'DOOM' on those suppliers you should be ashamed of your pricing parents can't afford them remember our children are your future customers.*******Definitely an item I would recommend, and if the price is right I’ll buy an extra set for the school libuaury*********

these books are a god send. My 4 year old boy started reception in September. He has not grasped the phonics or reading and we have struggled so much to get him interested. I've got to admit that the Biff, Chip & Kipper stories wouldn't grip me either - but that's not today's review!We'd bought various apps and other books but they'd been flat out rejected by my son. then I came across these and thought they would be worth a try.Am SO pleased I did. Each little book focuses on a phonic sound and introduces a new aspect of batman. Everything from meeting his enemies, and learning about the batcave to finding out about the gadgets etc. Each book only has 5 short pages - so you can quickly read through these and then spot the familiar words and learn some new favourites such as joker, penguin etc.My son is gripped. And given how much he'd refused to get involved or do any reading before - this is amazing. .We're going to buy more in the series, they're worth every penny!

These are excellent little books, great for young readers and I would recommend them.As all kids are unique and learn at different speeds and have varying abilities it is hard to say whether these books would be good for your child. when it comes to reading, age is not the issue, ability is and instilling a love of reading is important too, it should be fun, not a chore, and with batman, wonder woman and superman it should be fun!I would recommend these if your child loves batman and is 5+. Mine is only just 5 years old at the time of writing this, it was his birthday last week. They are a little advanced for his current ability but he loves batman and loves looking at the pictures and describing the story he sees, he also likes having his older brother read them to him, his older brother is 9 and autistic with his own learning difficulties and he reads them perfectly well independantly. it's lovely watching the two of them share these books.

I bought these for my classroom many years ago to encourage the boys to read. These were great as they got the boys (and girls) really keen to go into the book corner to read. Even some of my more reluctant readers were really excited about these books and they linked up well with the photos I was teaching so they were able to practice what I was teaching in a fun way. I would recommend for people teaching children to read or if you have a reluctant reader that likes superheroes!

These books are very disappointing. The author's idea of phonics is peculiar to say the least. Since when was "friend" an example of a short "e " vowel sound for beginner readers? She suggests sounding out the words - impossible to do for words like friend, knight, guys, laughed, touch, search etc.Very simple words given as sight words, but many of them are not sight words; for example in, him, and, at, it, can and several others are not sight words and can be sounded out.Children are enthusiastic over the subject and pictures but soon find reading the stories an uphill task and quickly lose interest as there are far too many difficult words.Children still learning words like "at" and "it" are not going to make much headway with a sentence like " Sounds like one of Poison Ivy's evil schemes."With a bit more thought these stories could have been written so that beginner readers could read most of them by themselves. Several of these stories have been condensed from longer versions and at only 6 pages per story there is not much plot left. 4-6 year-olds would probably not notice a lack of plot in an even simpler description of the pictures but they would have had a real sense of achievement had they been able to read more of the books.