Bob Books Set 4: Challenging Vocabulary for Young Learners

Ju: This set is better than the previous sets, set 1-3. Better content and language level more appropriate for beginner readers. Repetition helps with retaining the learning, especially the sight words.

Canada on Nov 14, 2022

pam yaplepam yaple: Our grandson was struggling with reading and we began purchasing BOB books for him. These books built his confidence and made reading easier and understandable for him. I recommend these books to anyone with children just learning to read or children struggling with reading.

United States on Sep 25, 2022

Daniel M. Frey: Our kindergartner has read through the entire bob books series. He has mastered reading with confidence in a slow but steady way. The books build upon each other both in complexity and length and ease little ones into the world of reading.

We have tried a ton of early reader books and have found the most success with bob books and Rhonda’s readers.

We started with bob books and then in set three used both bob books and the Rhonda readers. Our son prefers the Rhonda readers at this level but they would have been a bit too hard to start with. I do think the Rhonda readers are a little easier than the last two boxes of Bob books so they complement each other well.

United States on Mar 27, 2022

Frank S.: I'm an American with a Japanese life and my 7 year old son was born and raised here in Japan.

I've bought a lot of English study materials, and the Bob Book series has been uniformly excellent in every way. 100% recommend.

Note that my kid at least wasn't self-directed enough to study by himself, except a few days he sat down to read the Bob Books. Instead, we had a mini "English Class" about an hour a day and worked through this material.

Japan on Sep 30, 2021

Melissa: I taught my daughter to read last summer using the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book. By using that book, she's quite far ahead a lot of "beginning readers" books.

However, I have been finding any character level 1 books (i.e. Fancy Nancy, Pinkalicious, anything you can buy at Target basically) to be all over the road in terms of difficulty and they do not follow ANY phonetic pattern at all. Words like "through" and "castle" will be in there instead of similar words with the same sounds like "frogs, dogs, bog" etc.

BOB books follow phonetic building, meaning all the books have similar sounds that kids can master and then build on (one book with all short a sounds, all short i sounds, etc.). You will not find random words that are way too hard and jarring for a five year old to figure out suddenly. We got the set 4, complex words. We had been given a few books from set 1 from a friend and those were a little too easy.

I so wish we had a few sets of these books immediately following using the 100 lessons book because that would have saved me a lot of headache in finding books she could actually read. I was using "Level 1" readers from local...

United States on Feb 07, 2021

Megan: nephew is getting interested in books decided to go with this one. Wish I would have seen this is for advanced readers. His dad will have to read the books with him

Canada on Nov 23, 2020

Paul Tobey: This product give beginning readers a lot of confidence. The books progress through phonetic skills getting progressively more difficult.

Canada on Jul 21, 2020

Sameer Kassam: Great beginner reading books for my 5 year old. Would highly recommend. Simple and short. We have found if the books are too long she looses her focus, so these Bob books are the perfect length. She feel such a sense of accomplishment after each book and is eager to keep going on. Also ordering and shipment from Amazon was easy and fast, thank you.

Canada on Jun 02, 2017

Juniper: I really didn't expect my daughter to cruise through the Bob Books as fast as she did. She's only 4 years old and didn't really "get" reading until we got her the first set. Within 3 months, she'd breezed right through sets 1, 2, and 3, and she's now reading this one-- "Complex Words," with ease. I'm absolutely mindblown by how fast and easy reading has been for her thanks to these books. We'd tried some practice-reading at home ("Hop on Pop" and so on) but something about the Bob books just got through to her and I'm amazed to see her easily reading the complicated words in this book. In three months, she's gone from only knowing how to write her name and 2 other words to suddenly writing little story-books by herself-- at FOUR! I'm so proud and amazed and I think Bob Books are 99% of the reason for these sudden leaps in literacy!

My daughter is bright and may be gifted, but she's not a prodigy by any means. I think this early, advanced reading is well within the reach of most children. I strongly encourage parents of preschoolers to buy these books, and they're likely useful for kindergarten and 1st grade students, too, especially those who might need extra help outside...

United States on Nov 20, 2012

texascutie: If you have a preschooler, kindergartner or even a struggling first grader you will not be sorry you purchase these books! My four yr old told me he wanted to read so we started with set 1 and I have all 5 boxed sets plus the Kindergarten sight words boxed set. Today my preschooler is reading at the same level my first grader was at the beginning of the school year; and my first grader was in the top 3/4 of his class! The books are perfect in every way. The start off using 3 letters a book, one sentence per page and gradually get more complex letter sounds and longer stories. My son WANTS to read and we read twice daily! I taught my now middle schooler how to read at age four also but I know it would've been a lot less stressful (for me) if I would have known about these books. My son practically taught himself to read these books! Just make sure that your child can recognize each letter and knows what sound it makes. We only knew short vowel sounds when we started these, now my son can read words like 'wonderful', 'bright', 'another', 'business' and more! DO NOT HESITATE, buy these for your child; and yourself!!

United States on May 14, 2012