Product Description

This "Purple Storybook" will help children to learn to read using Ruth Miskin's highly effective Superphonics method. There are four levels in the Storybook series - Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. "Purple Storybooks" practise the sounds taught in "Superphonics Book 4". All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3874167 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

Review
'Children using Superphonics will move ahead faster than others in their class.' -- The Daily Telegraph (July 2000) 'Ruth Miskin's results - objectively tested against the rest of the country - seem to speak for themselves.' -- Sunday Express (November 2000) '...it [Superphonics] is the best.' -- TES (September 2000) Superphonics Storybooks from Hodder offer a welcome structure. -- Right Start 20020301

About the Author
Gill Munton is an experienced editor and writer of primary school material. She has written stories for reading schemes, workbooks, short stories and a number of differentiated texts, fiction and non-fiction. Gill was a managing editor before becoming a freelance writer and editor of children's and educational books in 1995.

Customer Reviews

An excellent series for teaching children to read
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.