We've loved the Emerging Readers' Set! It is the perfect bridge between phonics and long chapter books. I especially appreciated the bite-sized readings paired with the comprehension questions in the Appendix of the Beyond guide. Two of my dc have been early readers as well, so we did LHFHG along with the Beyond Emerging Reader's Set. Though my dc could easily read the first books in the set, we did them anyway to continue to work on building comprehension, and to continue to help them to be very confident in their reading. The comprehension questions are all based on Bloom's Taxonomy - which is a pyramid of comprehension levels that get progressively harder. In short, they are well-thought-out questions that I wouldn't be coming up with well on the fly myself!
They do a lot to build and improve comprehension. Here is a link to the Emerging Reader's Set:
http://www.heartofdakota.com/emerging-reader.php
As the pp said so well, the Emerging Reader's Set consists of your choice of 1 of the 2 Bibles plus the other 13 books for a total of 14 books. Since one of my little guys was on the young side, we got both Bibles and extended the Emerging Reader's Set by a few months. However, 1 Bible is enough for most dc. (Plus, I couldn't make a decision which one to get.
) I think "The Beginner's Bible is harder, if that's helpful. The Emerging Reader's Set increases in reading level difficulty as you go, and can be started at any point in the set. I'd encourage you to do the entire set though unless your ds is way past Amelia Bedelia, etc. (though my oldest ds was reading much harder books than "Frog and Toad" and "Amelia Bedelia" when we began the set, he still loved them, and I thought they were good to do to cement his oral reading and comprehension, and to continue to keep his confidence high). But, you'll know best what you want to do! HTH, and this IS such an awesome community on this board - I'm glad you are now a part of it!
In Christ,
Julie
