Ted's Shed

Usborne Phonics Readers

by Phil Roxbee Cox, Stephen Cartwright (Illustrator)

Ted moves his bed into his garden shed, and then embarks on a major construction project to put the building on wheels with the help of his friends.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Teaching

16 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Sarah Hills · Rating 2 out of 5]

B’s book - not a family favourite and not reached for often. It does offer some simple words but the yellow duck is not well hidden in this book so B kept getting distracted by the duck rather than listening/looking at the story.

[Marc Sebastian Head · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my son's favourite, and by no means a classic. Apparently they're written to explore phonics, so there are many repeated rhyming sounds throughout, which I suppose will help him learn English sounds when he starts to speak, but otherwise just sounds a bit repetitive right now.

[Mom_reading_childrens_books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the series with its delightful illustrations, recurring characters and a rhyme and rhythm that make it fun to read aloud. For example, Ted cutting slices of wood and saying 'This wood is good, this slice is nice'.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent for those just starting to read. Not to long, lovely illustrations.
My daughter (5) likes to find the little duck on each page.

[Lex Redding · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sweet tale of Ted and his Shed.

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[Lev · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the end, nobody knew what he was doing, but he built a carriage and everybody was surprised.

[Himanshu Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Cute

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that these books require Maddie to slow down and pay attention to the vowels.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ted is such a ledge. He likes tea and cake and red. Some cracking rhymes in this book. The earlier ones in the series are so much better.

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Ted's clever plan. It's just a simple story.

- J, 6

[Danie Cutter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, easy words for children learning to read. Like the fact that while it uses phonics there are also "patterns" for the words eg Goose and Loose so is suited to pattern recognition methods of learning to read as well.

Have bought the whole series as daughter loves these. While the words are simple there's still enough of a story/action to keep her interested (just) while too many early reading books are three word sentences, one sentence per page and only a few pages per book.

This set of books is top of the learn to read books we've come across so far.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usborne Phonics products are specially designed to help children learn how to read. They incorporate fun and learning. Children learn so much when they are young and their brain is forming so quickly. By incorporating reading into the things that they learn early on, they are more likely to succeed. If you are interested in purchasing this item, please visit my Usborne Independent Consultant Website at www.ubah.com/s2995

[Sarah Ashburn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book for beginning readers. This book has similar sounding words and the words are pretty simple for young kids. I really like all of the Usborne phonics books because they would be great for small reading groups of young elementary students.

[krym · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the thought that when you plan and work for it, something good might just happen. :)

[Michelle Cropper · Rating 5 out of 5]

great for teaching rhyming

[Sarah A · Rating 4 out of 5]

another great phonics book for early readers. My daughter struggled a bit more with this as a few extra words thrown in that were more complicated. Still fun and clever and educational.