This set of 12 simple andfun Fancy Nancy storybooks is an excellent choice to share at home or in thepreschool or kindergarten classroom. It's a fun way to learn to read and as asupplement for activity books for children ages 3 to 6. Enter into theworld of reading with I Can Read Phonics! In this set of twelve mini-books, Fancy Nancy's lively personality and the full-color illustrations make learning vital emergent reader skills enjoyable for parents and children.Phonics teaches children the relationship between letters and the sounds they make. A child who has mastered these relationships has an excellent foundation for learning to read and spell. According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, a child who has learned phonics has a method to recognize familiar words and "decode" unfamiliar ones.