Where should my child start?
Three questions about what your child can read right now. It takes about thirty seconds and ends with one recommended book.
Answer each question in turn. Follow the first one that matches your child.
Can your child read simple words such as cat, bed, pig, hop and sun without needing a picture?
Can your child read common digraph words such as ship, chat and thin?
Can your child read words with beginning or ending blends such as stop, frog and camp?
CVC Words Workbook
Short-vowel practice that moves a child from sounding out single letters to reading and spelling CVC words on their own.
Why this one: Three-sound short-vowel words are the first thing a child can read entirely by decoding. Until those are steady, every later pattern sits on sand.
Consonant Digraphs Workbook
The step after CVC: six digraph patterns where two letters spell a single sound, practiced one pattern at a time.
Why this one: CVC words are working, so the next real obstacle is two letters making one sound. Teaching sh, ch and th as units stops the letter-by-letter stall.
Consonant Blends Workbook
Words where consonants sit side by side and both sounds can still be heard — stop, frog, camp, hand.
Why this one: Digraphs are secure, so the remaining trouble is usually two consonants in a row — easy to drop or swap. Blends get practiced in position, beginning and ending.
Your child is ready for connected reading.
If CVC words, digraphs and blends are all comfortable, the next step is reading whole sentences and short stories rather than single words.
What to do now: First Decodable Stories Workbook is the next reading book in development. In the meantime, the blends book is still useful for fluency practice, and the free sample pack includes sentence reading.
This guide is for choosing among Wrenford Wordway workbooks. It is not a reading assessment or a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.