BEST BOOKS FOR BEGINNING READERS is an annotated list of early reader books (for Pre K - 2); includes information on evaluating books for reading difficulty/level; from various bookstores.

The BOB BOOKS series is available from Report Card, Scholastic, various bookstores, etc.

BRAND NEW READERS series (Candlewick Press) are 4 book sets; from various bookstores, etc.

DR. MAGGIE'S PHONICS READERS are available from ABC School Supply, Lyndale Books, School Specialty, etc.; related resource guide also available.

Early reading materials are available from various educational materials suppliers, bookstores, including Chinaberry Book Service, Demco, Follett, Harcourt, McDougal-Littel / Houghton-Mifflin, Modern Curriculum Press / Pearson Education, Perfection Learning, Scholastic, Scott Foresman / Addison-Wesley, SRA/McGraw-Hill, Steck-Vaughn, etc.

EASY WORD PHONICS READERS are available from Usborne and various bookstores.

GET READY ... GET SET ... READ is a basic series of 7 phonetic word family-based beginning readers (publisher - Barrons) for ages 4 - 7; from Home Learners' Catalog, etc.

The HELLO READER Funny Tale Phonics series, by Judith Bauer-Stamper, is available from various bookstores.

I CAN READ A RAINBOW selections are available from various bookstores.

LITERATURE LINKS TO PHONICS: A BALANCED APPROACH (Teacher Ideas Press) is a 150 page reference book which helps determine the reading level of over 450 children's books; from various bookstores.

LITTLE BOOKS FOR EARLY READERS is a 4 level series of 60 books; from Educators Publishing Service.

THE LITTLE COMPANION READERS, for ages 6 - 10, is a series of 10 small books with large type / black and white pictures; from various bookstores.

LITTLE READERS, Short Vowels and Long Vowels, for grades 1 - 3, are available from Educational Stuff Inc. and other educational materials suppliers.

PATHWAY READERS, for grades 1 - 8, were created for the Amish community and stress character building; accompanying workbooks and teacher books also available; from Education Connection.

PHONETIC READERS (a 10 book set with follow up activities) and PHONETIC FIRST READERS are available from Lakeshore Learning, etc.

Popular early reading materials include DR. SEUSS selections, LITTLE BEAR books (by Else Homelund Minarik), FROG AND TOAD books (by Arnold Lobel), P.D. Eastman's books (ARE YOU MY MOTHER?; GO, DOG, GO; etc.); from various local libraries, book stores, educational materials suppliers, etc.

SING, SPELL, READ & WRITE provides a set of 17 storybook readers correlated to their reading program; from International Learning Systems.

START TO READ phonics based reader series (School Zone Publishing Co.) is available for 3 skill levels; from various bookstores.

WE BOTH READ series (Treasure Bay Publishers Services), for grades K - 3, are children's books (fiction and nonfiction selections) that are designed for the child and parent to read together -- parent reads left side page, student reads right side page; from various bookstores.