The Circus Mice

by Isabel Crawford

From the I Love Reading series a new range of first readers based on phonics. Ideal for those who prefer levelled content to help children progress toward independant reading. There are 7 levels within the I Love Reading series, each level has 8 books each with imaginative writing and delightful artwork

This fantastic new fiction reading series for children aged 5+ combines structured phonic progression with great artwork and fun stories. Phonics enables new readers to recognize the individual sounds of English and to blend them, building confidence to tackle unfamiliar words without relying on memory and guesswork. Developed under the guidance of an expert consultant, I Love Reading Phonics matches the phonics that children are being taught in school.

The Circus Mice is level 4 in this series.

23 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2013

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Reviews

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even Maddie read a bit of this one. Solid phonics reader.

[Tim Roast · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Circus Mice is an educational story. It focuses on words with i-e in them like mice, five and kite. The story starts on page 6 with the pages before containing all the phonics info. In that way I would say the book is designed for teachers. The story of the five mice at the circus is ok, and the drawings are good and in full colour. The story is short though.

It is clearly designed for you to buy the whole 48 book series (this book is level 4 book E) although I couldn't find the series as a whole listed on Amazon. Also some of the other books in the series aren't as good as this and you probably you can find a better series out there for teaching children to read than this.