As a reading teacher teaching children how to read, I had taught my beginning students how to decode long and short vowel words.
I went to the library to scout out books for the students to check out. The books for beginning readers had big print and few words on a page, but they were not decodable. Even books that indicated they were long or short vowel books had many words that were not long or short vowels.
The bottom line: There were no books available that children would be able to read every word without guessing, so I wrote my own.
The first edition in 2000 was called Hanson’s Read and See Books. Addressing the problem, the Santa Clara County Libraries in California bought them and according to the librarian in Mountain View,
A 2012 comment from Karin Bricker, Supervising Librarian Youth Services, City of Mountain View Public Library:
“At the Mountain View Library our copies of Lynne Hanson’s “Read and See Books” fly off the shelves. Parents and children appreciate the logical progression inherent in the structure of the series. They follow it easily to help their children learn to read. Children are excited by their quick progress. They feel a sense of accomplishment as they finish one of the short books and are excited to go on to the next. I have long wished that more books for these beginning readers had such carefully thought out phonetic approach. These do. These books are not flashy in format or production values but they help children feel good about learning to read and that’s what is important.”
The books are popular, and as the demand grew, I added more titles and extended the books to include vowels that are not long and short, which I call CLUES. The books are now part of the HANSON Reading Phonics Chart System and are called Phonics CODE Books (chart 3,4,5) and Phonics CLUE Books (Charts 6,7,8,9). The Phonics CODE Books have been updated and are available as electronic versions (.epub), pdf printable file, or hard copies can be ordered.
I went to the library to scout out books for the students to check out. The books for beginning readers had big print and few words on a page, but they were not decodable. Even books that indicated they were long or short vowel books had many words that were not long or short vowels.
The bottom line: There were no books available that children would be able to read every word without guessing, so I wrote my own.
The first edition in 2000 was called Hanson’s Read and See Books. Addressing the problem, the Santa Clara County Libraries in California bought them and according to the librarian in Mountain View,
A 2012 comment from Karin Bricker, Supervising Librarian Youth Services, City of Mountain View Public Library:
“At the Mountain View Library our copies of Lynne Hanson’s “Read and See Books” fly off the shelves. Parents and children appreciate the logical progression inherent in the structure of the series. They follow it easily to help their children learn to read. Children are excited by their quick progress. They feel a sense of accomplishment as they finish one of the short books and are excited to go on to the next. I have long wished that more books for these beginning readers had such carefully thought out phonetic approach. These do. These books are not flashy in format or production values but they help children feel good about learning to read and that’s what is important.”
The books are popular, and as the demand grew, I added more titles and extended the books to include vowels that are not long and short, which I call CLUES. The books are now part of the HANSON Reading Phonics Chart System and are called Phonics CODE Books (chart 3,4,5) and Phonics CLUE Books (Charts 6,7,8,9). The Phonics CODE Books have been updated and are available as electronic versions (.epub), pdf printable file, or hard copies can be ordered.
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