Step-By-Step Reading Guide (70-Page Printable eBook) review
Printable phonics practice for a 5 to 7 year old who is still stuck sounding words out
By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-09-23.
Is it worth it?
You sit down with your five year old and a school reading book, and it goes the same way every night. They know the letters. They just cannot pull them together into a word, and by page two everyone is fed up. Or you are teaching a class and three kids are clearly behind the rest and you have no time to build extra material from scratch. This is a worksheet pack, and it is honest about that. Around 70 pages of PDF that you print. The sequence is the useful bit: starting sounds, then blending within one word family at a time, then sight words, then very short stories with a question or two. That structure means you can pull one page a day without deciding what comes next. Day to day it is about ten minutes. Print two or three pages, sit with them, let them circle and match. The puzzle pages (mazes, word searches) they can mostly do alone while you get on with something. What it will not do is teach you how to teach reading. There is no parent guide mentioned, no audio, no lesson notes. If your child has a diagnosed difficulty like dyslexia, this is practice, not intervention, and a specialist is the better spend.
Pros
- Sensible order, sounds then words then sentences, so you are not guessing what to do next
- Short pages suit a five year old's attention span
- Unlimited printing, so it covers siblings or a whole class
- Prints fine in black and white, which keeps ink cost down
Cons
- Worksheets only, no teaching guidance, audio or parent script mentioned
- Ages 5 to 7 is a narrow window, and a confident reader will outgrow it fast
- The page never states the price, the exact page count (it says roughly 70) or the refund terms
What you get
A PDF of roughly 70 printable pages, A4 or Letter, downloadable straight after purchase. Inside: blending pages for CVC families (at, ig, op, ot and so on), sight word tasks using words like the, we, see and she, starting-sound pages for A to Z with picture matching, plus word searches, mazes, unscrambles and short read-aloud stories with a couple of questions each. Print as often as you like at home or in one classroom.
Before you buy
- Check the price and the refund window at checkout. Purchases through ClickBank normally carry a money-back period, but confirm it rather than assume
- You need a printer and paper. Filling these in on a screen is not really the point
- Look at where your child actually is. If they are not yet solid on letter sounds, start with the A to Z pages, and if they are already reading simple sentences this is probably too easy
Who it suits
Parents and homeschoolers of 5 to 7 year olds who want cheap, structured daily reading practice they can print and use tonight
