3The Kumon My Book of Reading Skills series will introduce your child to early literacy concepts such as vowel and consonant sounds, sight words, and more. The first two books, My Book of Reading Skills: Easy Phonics and My Book of Reading Skills: Phonics, will help your child develop phonics skills such as recognizing consonant letter sounds, short and long vowel sounds, and consonant combination sounds like "ch." The goal for this series is to teach children to identify the most common phoneme sounds and their sound-letter relationships, so they can easily sound out or decode new words as they read. Developing phonics skills is essential for your child to build a strong foundation in literacy.