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Phonics Ages 4-5: Ideal for home learning (Collins Easy Learning Preschool)
£3.80
Level: EYFS
Subject: English
An engaging Phonics activity book to really help boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning! Fully in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child’s learning at home.
Combining useful English practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Phonics practice book helps to boost your child’s confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.
Included in this book:
- questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at school
- colourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at home
- helpful tips and answers so that you can support your child’s learning
Covers phonics phases 2-4, which your child will meet in Reception.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Collins, Second edition (25 May 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 24 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0008617937 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0008617936 |
| Reading age | 4 – 5 years |
| Dimensions | 21 x 0.2 x 29.7 cm |
by JD
If this is what the national curriculum prescribes, I suppose we will have to go through with it – and be grateful when the child gets to the stage of being able to read without all the unnecessary, confusing and distracting detail here.
She’s just five: can she give a name to a picture book-style anchor, igloo or fort (or a cork that looks more like a beach sand pie)? Is she in any sense wrong if she thinks the picture is of a butterfly, not a moth, or a frog, not a toad?
But it’s OK, disabled people are represented. NO IT ISN’T: the sole representative of the disabled has fallen out of her wheelchair!
And MUST you associate the word ‘fear’ with spiders?
Yes, adult supervision, and quite a lot of discretion, is definitely needed.
Features Collins get ‘right’ include a series of stars to be coloured-in as each page of the book is completed, a certificate of achievement at the end of the book, and a page of ‘answers’ to help the adult sort out what some of the most mysterious pictures are intended to represent. (Spoiler: the pot, such as just might have been used by owners of dip pens 100 years ago, turns out to represent ‘ink’.)
Come on, Collins, you can do better than this!
by Peter Piper
This book is good for learning and for practising phonics. Perfect for my 4 year old. This book is well written and easy to understand.
It has 24 pages.
by Lost John
When teaching children, I think it is important that at the younger ages you need to go with what they want, you mustn’t force them. My 3 and a half year old is not yet in primary school is taking an interest in writing and how words are formed (copying her sister’s spellings), so I thought it would be good to nurture that.
Admittedly she doesn’t quite have the fine motor skills to get the letters perfectly in this book yet, so I am using a whiteboard pen and encouraging her to try and write the groups of letters. I think that later it is possible I will duplicate some pages and try her with a pencil and the drawing activities.
I see this book as an activity that is meant to fit alongside the way in which the teachers will teach the kids. Not everyone will get on with the way they do it in school (apparently no-one multiplies numbers in the same way in which I learnt to do it).
by Pringles
Reading and writing are so important, and the sooner you start the better. This is a great book to use with your child to develop early reading skills. The answers are provided in the back of the book. It is important to repeat the exercises to embed learning, so it would be better if the pages were shiny so that they could be written on using a whiteboard pen that can be wiped off, but you can use a soft pencil and an eraser instead.
On the bottom of the left-hand pages are helpful hints for parents and at the end of the book there is a certificate of achievement!
One of a set aimed at the 3-5 year age group, including Cursive Writing, Vocabulary, and two further writing books. Each book is based around the National Curriculum every child will experience in school.
by Mr. A. Tanca
Well made little book.
My nephews, who are 3 and half years old, seemed interested and enjoyed going through it with their mum.
It is similar to what they do in nursery, I understand.
by Mum
Got this phonics book for my daughter as she starts reception soon and I wanted to make sure we can practice phonics at home as well. Very well made and easy to follow as a parent.
by A
This is not full phonics coverage, or it does not look full to me but it is a very decent book and will see your child through a few moments that require attention at Reception level. It is colourful and should give a child a feeling of ‘organised’ learning. Not bad at all.
by Pringles
As an amateur, I found phonic books to be a fantastic learning tool for early readers, as a beginner, I did find some aspects a bit challenging to understand, especially when it came to explaining certain concepts to my child. Nonetheless, with some extra research and practice, I was able to navigate through it.
Great starting book to help child to progress through.
It’s been a rewarding experience for both me and my child!