Scolastic Readers in French

 These books, from the "Les Mots-outils" series are pretty good, but they're random.  They're less for learning to speak French and more for learning to read in French.

I think you're supposed to learn the words by sight, which is ridiculous.  But whatever.

 Some of them, like the one above, are organized by level (you'll notice the A in the top, right hand corner).  The series to the right is organized by season.  Either way, it's a terrible way to organize the books.  I had to read each book to decide if it was at my daughter's level.

The way I'm teaching is by using a picture dictionary, or "Imagier", so that she learns all of her nouns first, and then we're putting together sentences by learning verbs.  These books tend to teach by common phrases, which may contain simple forms of common words, but may instead focus on adverbs, adjectives or prepositions while using a combination of verbs.  I really just want to stick to verbs, first.

These books from the "Les Premiers mots" series were much better for my purposes.  They tend to focus on one verb or preposition while varying the nouns.  My daughter learns the verb or preposition on the first page, and then she understands the whole book on the first read-through.

It's so hard to find these books to purchase them.  Some are on the French Scolastic website.