For those of you who have used Short Vowel Stories to help teach your children to read, you’ll be glad to know (I hope!) that two more books are now available: Teach Me to Read Duets, Books 1 and 2.

I wrote all three books when I started teaching my oldest to read, and I used them with all my kids alongside other phonetic readers. Having taught piano for many years I knew that to teach a child to read music or books, you need to: 1) introduce new material slowly in systematic, bite-size pieces, and 2) give students ample practice to achieve mastery.

These books do not constitute a complete phonetic program. But they do offer additional gentle, incremental practice. Many of the stories are duets, where the student reads most of the lines and the parent reads lines with harder words. This allows the student to learn from the reading parent, and the stories do not sound overly didactic.

Here are some samples for you to look at:

Short Vowel Stories:

Teach Me to Read Duets, Book 1:

Teach Me to Read Duets, Book 2:

The illustrations by Kiara Rivas, a homeschooler, are really cute, aren’t they?

All three books are available at Amazon for $5.49 each: Short Vowel Stories, Teach Me to Read Duets, Book 1, and Teach Me to Read Duets, Book 2.

Is your child having a hard time learning to read? Or are you teaching a child to read for the first time? Check out these posts:

The Three Keys to Teaching Your Child to Read, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Hope you like them!