Short-Vowel Pals Paperback – May 1, 2009

Entertaining stories. Cute illustrations. Once children have mastered short vowel sounds and basic consonants, they can easily read these books and feel a great sense of accomplishment. Each book focuses on a specific short vowel sound. Both as an educator and as well as a grandparent, I love these books. I have both sets. I wish there were more. A great companion to the Bob Books. In my mind, they are superior to the Bob books because the illustrations are superior as are the stories themselves.

My child is learning to read with these books

My daughter’s preschool used Starfall and then she continued to use it at home in kindergarten. This set was exciting for her because she already knew the characters and she has success reading them. I love how they are decodable which encourages her to use her phonics skills. Her kindergarten focuses a lot on sight words, which made it where she would default to NOT using her phonics skills. We have used this book set at home to reinforce the need for her to sound out words and to help her gain confidence in her ability to decode words and read stories.

Illustrations are very well done. Stories are cute and contain proper grammar. I'm glad I got these!

So glad I got these for my kindergarten classroom. They might not be the best quality illustrations, but they are sturdy books that are very readable for my students who need practice blending CVC words. I've already recommended them to all my fellow teachers.

We use starfall in my class and these books are a great compliment to it.

Bought these books for my grandsons. They have enjoyed learning to read words from these books. I would highly recommend these to anyone that have young children in their household who are learning to read. Not disappointed with my purchase.

These are great books for beginning readers. The stories are cute and repetitive without being overly so. My granddaughter loves these books. She especially likes the characters that appear in the other books. I'm going to buy the long vowel sounds set next.