Our boys love these books! They highlight real kids doing real activities. The books progress very nicely and kids can learn to sound out the words which makes learning to read much easier. I would highly recommend adding these books to your reading program.
The Homestead Readers series has been such a sweet addition to my 5 year old son’s homeschool. He has built so much confidence while reading them, asks to read them daily, and has learned how to read with them. He loves reading about Grant and all of his adventures with his dad and brother. As a homeschooling mom, I have appreciated that these readers align with UFLI resources and that they are non-fiction. These are a fabulous resource and I highly recommend them to anyone who’s teaching their little one how to love and enjoy reading!
Highly recommend these readers! My 2 boys, ages 10 & 8, are reluctant readers but are willing to read these every day. The stories are realistic and entertaining. I’ll ask them, “What was Grant up to today?”, and they enjoy retelling the stories to me.
These are the best readers! While reading these readers, the phonics is taught gradually for the child to keep up, and help instill the phonic principles they have already learned. All the stories are exciting, sweet, and keep my oldest wanting to keep reading them. They are her first choice (and mine) for readers!
The stories themselves are lovely, and show the wide range of farm and family life. I am very thankful to have them, and I will be buying the next set for next year as we are nearly done them.
Homestead Readers use time-tested phonics which give children the decoding skills needed to become independent, capable readers. This allows them to decode new words in the future. Homestead Readers progress through well thought-out phonics steps to give a child mastery of one skill before moving on to another skill. Each book explains how to go about teaching a child to decode the words that use the new phonetic concept for that book.
Kids love to read about real kids doing real things. Catch a child’s attention with stories about horses, dogs, trucks, big machinery, outdoor adventures, and more.
