Outstanding moments of discovery await your child with the Horizons 1st Grade Phonics & Reading Student Reader 2: The Deer in the Woods. Watch your homeschool child walk into new adventures and improve reading skills as he learns to read with 80 delightful, phonics-based short stories. Emphasizing godly character qualities and strong moral values, each entertaining story in this fun-filled reader reinforces phonics rules taught in lessons 81-160 in the Horizons 1st Grade Phonics & Reading Student Book 2. As a result, your child will be able to sound out new words, improve his reading fluency, and increase his reading comprehension. Eventually, he'll have so much fun as he reads each story alone, he'll want to reread them several times over!

But there's more! Easy-to-read font is gentle on young eyes and colorful illustrations keep your child captivated. What's more, each story in this fun-filled reader has exciting comprehensive and review questions located at the end. So why are you waiting? Discover this amazing homeschooling reading curriculum resource for yourself. Add a copy of the Horizons 1st Grade Phonics & Reading Student Reader 2 from Alpha Omega Publications to your shopping cart today!

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