Are you looking for funny stories for your beginning reader? Silly stories using easy-to-read CVC and sight words? With silly pictures to make kids laugh? And learning activities to reinforce the phonics?
We’ve made them!
Years ago, when my kids were learning to read, that’s what I wanted. But I couldn’t find them. So I started writing them. My sister, an art teacher, made them even funnier with her cartoon-like drawings. We tried them out on our kids and later my students, improved them, and now they are available for you to use with your beginning readers.
The story themes focus on little kids’ lives.
• A six-year-old receives a yo-yo for her birthday, but her father wants to play with it.
• A baby brother wants to do what his kindergarten-age brother does, but he’s too little.
• A wild child makes a mess while the babysitter gabs on the phone.
• A preschooler talks his grandfather into playing with his toys.
• A five-year-old devises ways to hide her father’s bald head.
After each story are several pages of game-like learning activities to reinforce the words and ideas of the stories.
My sister, Anne Trombetta, the illustrator, and I, the author, are teachers with masters’ degrees. We’ve applied educational research to devise story lines, words, activities and art to engage new readers.
Please check out our early reader picture books. We hope you’ll not only buy them, but tell us how your little reader responded to the silly stories.