Set of 12 Pete The Cat Books

This set is a favorite for 4-7 year old students around the world.

This set of 12 simple and
fun Pete the Cat storybooks is an excellent choice to share with your beginning reader. It’s a fun
way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children ages 3
to 6. Enter into the world of reading with My First I Can Read! 
These 12 short full-color books feature repeated examples of short and long vowel sounds and common sight words.
Words with unfamiliar spelling patterns can we used to demonstrate same sound/different spelling patterns that students will encounter. Parents or teachers can front load these words as a pre-reading spelling activity.
For example:

sandwiches — stretch the word, help the child segment the word to count the Syllables  in “sandwiches”

On a paper or whiteboard, make a long line for each syllable.

Hovering over those two syllable lines, make a small sound line for each sound contained in each syllable.

__ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __

__________    _____________

Discuss the the plural ending of “es” and its two sounds. The schwa sound spelled with “e” and the /zzzzzzz/ sound spelled with “s”.

Discuss other plural words: fishes, buses, cats, why do some use “es” and some “s”?

Another great word to front load with segmentation, spelling and discussion is the word “banana”. Check out the two different sounds with the same “a” spelling.  Depending on dialect, the middle “a” represents either a short /a/ sound or a broad /ah/ sound. The first and the last “a” represents the lazy schwa sound.  

This set gives the young reader a chance to apply their knowledge of English orthography.

Each of the simple stories in this box set is designed to let kids practice reading while rocking out with Pete the Cat.
According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, a child who has learned to spell words has a method to recognize familiar words and “decode” unfamiliar ones.