Kindergarten Reading Readiness Workbook: Activities, Exercises, and Tips to Help Catch Up, Keep Up, and Get Ahead

my kid find it easy and interesting. .this book is a good start for understanding .i am very pleased to buy it

My kindergartener is a little behind on skills because I did not put him in preschool. I got this hoping it would catch him up. We sat down for 15 min and went through nearly 1/4 of the book.It does provide a fun way to practice writing letters and letter sounds, but it really is more practice for preschoolers instead of kindergarteners.

I highly recommend. My 5 year old grand-daughter loves this book. We keep it in the kitchen and she grabs it just about every time she comes over. It keeps her occupied while she waits for a snack or a meal. No more requests to watch t.v.! She can complete the exercises with minimal direction. And, as she completes each page, she knows to write her name at the top and wait for her "teacher" to grade it with a star. I will definitely order more Sylvan books for her.

We use these to supplement our home school activities. Very clear, concise instructions, great color pages and images, answers in the back, such a wonderful resource, especially for the price. I DO wish the pages were perforated, that is about the only complaint I have. The past 2 years we have used these, I just take an evening and gather all the Sylvan books we have bought and take a couple hours tearing out the entire book being careful not to rip pages in half as it can be easily done if in a hurry, hole punching it and storing it in a 3 ring binder. That way, all year I do not have to be tearing out X amount of pages per day or week etc. and they are all handy and ready to go. I would pay extra to have them perforated! haha But despite the extra work (which technically isn't all completely necessary but we've found it impossible to use without at least tearing out the pages) I still highly recommend these lesson books.

My 4 year old loves the "challenges" of this workbook. It presents a systematic approach to learning sounds of consonants and vowels which my little one finds fun and absorbing. However, some of the pictures are not clear. For example, the mouse and the rat were very similar. A mop puzzled him: "What's this? Spaghetti at the bottom of a stick?"