Simple, affordable, yet complete reading program; everything you need to teach your child to read.

A phonics program that is effective and Catholic! Not expensive, complicated, or time-consuming. This entire program costs only $28.95. It contains a Parent's Guide, Catholic flashcards on stiff cardstock, worksheets corresponding to each story in Levels 1 & 2, and forty-five 8½"x11" sheets which are to be folded into quarters to form little booklets. These booklets are color-coded and marked to indicate the appropriate reading level. Each booklet contains some words from a new phonics concept and an illustrated mini-story using words learned up to that level. The brief stories include "We Hope to See the Pope," "Blessed Sacrament," "The Found Rosary," and others.

Little Stories for Little Folks is a complete reading program that begins with letter name and sound recognition flash cards, pre-reading exercises that teach the children how to blend sounds into words, followed by stories, worksheets, and MORE in the step-by-step Parents’ Guide. Each element contained in the LSLF package leads the child step-by-step into reading on his own!

The child who just wants to get down to the business of reading will be pleased with this program's approach and quick results. However, children who do well with concepts put to song, or using games and workbooks, could still use this program as an inexpensive Catholic supplement to a more intensive phonics program. Mrs. Nicholson, a homeschooling mom, has kept the price unbelievably low.

From the author: "Teaching word families is probably the most gratifying way for a child to quickly discover that there are patterns to words and that they can read a LOT of words even when they are just beginning. Nothing breeds success like success! Drill, with the exception of flashcards in the pre-reading stage, can seem so pointless and dry to the child that it is almost self-defeating. They want to READ! The best way to practice sounds is within words within sentences within interesting, short stories!"

Pre-K through 1st grade: 4 levels, 45 stories to fold into booklets, bound Parents' Guide, Silly Willy Sentences activity, worksheets, and Catholic flashcards on stiff cardstock. Shrink-wrapped. Fourth Edition.

See also Little Stories for Little Folks’ companion workbooks: Catholic Heritage Handwriting, Level K and Level 1. These workbooks provide story-by-story phonics practice as primary students copy and reinforce letter combinations and words that they have just read in Little Stories for Little Folks. Children master reading skills even more rapidly when using these companion workbooks.