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Title: Superphonics (Superphonics Storybooks) by Ruth Miskin, Gill Munton ISBN: 0-340-77351-0 Publisher: Hodder Children's Books Pub. Date: 20 September, 2001 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent series for teaching children to read
Comment: I discovered the Superphonics series, by Ruth Miskin, when I was teaching college in London with my family for a semester. My oldest children were 3 and 5, and I was looking for something that would help me in teaching them to read. I had gone through standard phonics books in the United States and used lots of supplements that seemed like the best things available, but nothing could really grab the attention of my children and present information in a simple and easy way. The Superphonics series did that, and literally in a matter of weeks with these products they were reading full sentences. The books begin with what seems to me to be the most natural approach: rather than teach children how to say the names of the letters, teach them how to say the sound that they most commonly represent. And then, associate each letter with an easy-to-understand picture of an object that both looks like the letter and whose name begins with the letter. "a" is a tilted apple, "b" is a boot, "c" is a curled up caterpillar, and so on. Subsequent books teach kids to read groups of words, by means of rhyming games. Each exercise, and each lesson, embodies activities and pictures that call upon a number of different learning styles and modalities. And the illustrations are top notch, easily appreciated by children, and not annoying to parents (like myself) who don't like to see kitchy or "branded" illustrations in the books they read to their children. I can't say enough about this, and am glad to see that it is now available in the United States. (It wasn't when I looked for it here after I came home. You are still not likely to find it in major book chains, whose lines of educational products are largely dominated by the major publishing houses.) If you have young children or if you are an educator, I strongly recommend this series by Ruth Miskin.