My son is keen to read books like his big sisters. We have many sight word readers and first learn to read book sets. ( easily 80, but I teach so…) what we don’t have is a set of very basic, mostly sight words books with large print. In order for him to notice the differences between the similar words (the, they) he needs bigger print than standard. Has anyone found any they can recomend? Or am I making my own again, sigh.
If I can’t find any I will use some of our story books with large print and just load the unknown words into little reader for him to learn but a set of sight word books would let him feel like he is doing home work like his sisters 
They’re not sight words books, but the BrillKids story books are the best ones out there IMO. A second runner up is Preschool Prep Sight Words Easy Readers set 1, 2, and 3. If you really still need them bigger yet, you could enlarge them for your own household use only. Scan the books, enlarge, print them out to fill 8 X 11 card stock, and slip into plastic page protectors. Although, that requires a little bit of work that I know you are probably trying to avoid.
Here is the level 1 kit: http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/p/msw1/level1.php (Click screen shots to see the pages). My daughter is reading one of these books on the front page of my youtube channel (link below) if you want to get an idea on the actual size, and my son is reading some of the BrillKids storybooks if you wanted to see a “sample” of the inside pages of those as well.
Best of luck!
I bought those easy readers level 1,2 and 3. My boy likes most of them… especially sharing day … its the suspense before she guesses correctly that it’s a flute ! It’s not unusual to read through 10 or more of them before bed.
The best thing about them is how handy they are… they are quite small books, so you can easily take them anywhere.
On the downside they are a bit dull (to me more than my boy) and the text is facing the pictures rather than being on its own page… i.e. competing for the child’s attention.
I have a spiral binder and each holiday or event that comes up, i make a book on the computer and bind it. It takes about 40 mins to arrange the photos and text, but they are well liked. I’ve also photographed and typed out a couple of books , but it took too long.
Books by Stephanie Blake have nice large clear text.
“Enough inigo enough” and “nose is not toes” by Doman are both good.
Thanks
I would love to see more of what is inside the books by brillkids. A few internal page shots on this site would be helpful. I saw your son reading the “I can see a…” I think that’s what it was. So are they all simple like that? They would be great ( but probably short life expectancy). I can’t find your daughter…
I also liked the preschool prep sight words ones. They seem a bit harder from the screen shots, but the size is perfect for 3 and 4 year olds. Purely because they are cheaper I will get those first and see how we go.
I have many resource to make up my own books for him…and I will do a few photo books of him with “look at me I am …” “Jaykob is …” my girls loved these. I can get them printed for $10 in a proper photo book about 3 times a year. But you are quite right I was looking for a zero effort, super quick solution this time 
Oh I am sure we have some Stefanie Blake… It’s a big bookshelf 
The Peter and Jane Keywords boxset (Here on Amazon UK
W is really in to writing at the moment … so the book C in the set where you get to fill in some gaps appeals to him.
I found those yesterday at the local book shop. I liked the print and repetition but the story lacks interest. If he was 3 I think he would love them but at 4 I decided they would probably bore him. Yet another advantage of teaching them younger…they are less easily bored by simple story lines. I will however get the Peter and Jane books from the library as a one time read he may like them enough. Plus he will get a kick out of being able to read a library book…something he hasn’t yet done
Thank you again
Also check out Pebble Books as originally recommended by KristaG. I saw some at my library and remembered her original post, they are indeed very good non-fiction books for beginning readers level PK-2 according to the publisher.
Just my 2 cents – Peter and Jane book were way too boring for both of my kids. Also the number of words introduced was very little. They dont mind simple story lines at all, but somehow they both ( at 3 and 1.5) did not like those, they would read almost any book, they just love reading period. I was surprised, since I always thought quite highly of P&J series. So I would say - first get them from the library to check them out before buying the set.
We did some self printed books, and they loved those. I need to make more.
LR deluxe book set – at first they were skipping the reading part, because they were too excited and impatient to flip the picture open :rolleyes: But once we had the routine down ( using their pointer finger to follow the words, etc), they did great. Words are clear and sentences are short, but not ridiculously short, and there is a story line to follow. Also having 25 story books from Deluxe set + 10 Aesop’s Fables makes for good variety of uniformed books, which works really good for us.
In fact we followed the idea and created some self-made books in the same manner – text + flip open picture – in Russian :yes:
We also liked some of the Harcourt books, not all of them, but some are really fun. I would suggest to skip K level, grade 1 level probably is a good place to start. http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/tl/Elem/pdefs/assessments/Harcout%20Book%20Levels%20K-6%20Assess.pdf
Hope this gave you some ideas…
Do you have a kindle? I’ve been working on a set of early reader e-books that will loosely follow words in the flèche word list. I am about to release the first one and could use some feedback on the format. I’m thinking of having two versions of the same book in a single download. One version will use a good sized font at the bottom of each picture, the other version will have very large font on a page by itself, with the picture on the next page. Thoughts? When it’s done I’ll send out the link for a free download. Thanks for any advice.
Well I don’t have a kindle but I have the kindle app for the iPad…will that work? I Also have an android but it isn’t working today…I would be happy to look at it for you and give feedback. There does seem to be a lack of early readers in digital format…
When my dd was just starting to read in her own, I found several Boots Lift the Flap books by Sara James. They are very simple, one short sentence per page books. What I really liked about them is that the letters are over 1/2 inch tall.
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Preschool Prep readers are available for Kindle…just download the free Kindle App to your IPad, and you can access any Kindle Product (and more!) from your IPad! The only irritating thing is that sometimes the E-version is actually more expensive than a physical copy…but not always, and no shipping, waiting and all that. Plus, you can have it in under a minute!
Forewarned: this can be quite addictive and WAY TOO Easy!
Oh i know it’s dangerous! I can carry well over 400 books in my handbag! The only down side I have found is that it’s a bit hard to loan them to friends
Preschool prep on kindle hey? Hmm I wonder if he will be happy with that, I like the idea personally. As I always have the iPad with me. He was asking for books to read though. I will ask him any practice it good practice
I would be really interested in those books as well, I dont have a kindle, is there any other way to get them?donwload? tnks
Thanks for sharing! These are great! Now I wish I had got the Kindle Fire. :happy: