I have used spectrum math 1 and phonic 1, and gave 5 start review. My son is slow in reading. Phonic 1 has been working great to teach him how to read words. This reading1 is not much helpful. It has some stories to read, think and answer, some worksheets to practice words/phonics and some complicated stories to read/think/answer. Stories are ok. Worksheets are useless. Pictures in the worksheets are not clear what they are asking. I just skip the worksheets and make my son read stories and talk about them. Basically, 30 of the book is waste.