Reading does not arrive all at once. It arrives as letter sounds, then letter combinations, then rhymes, then word families, then the moment a child recognises a whole word on sight and looks up to check whether you saw. This workbook walks that order deliberately, one activity at a time, across 64 full colour pages.

Silver Dolphin wrote the Ready to Learn series to the Common Core State Standards and had each level checked by early education specialists, so what a child practises here is what their classroom will ask for. Sight words and comprehension tools are introduced alongside the phonics rather than after it, which is how children stop decoding and start reading.

An answer key sits at the back and a Certificate of Achievement at the end. Pair it with the Kindergarten Math Workbook and you have a summer of practice for eight dollars.