Phonics Power! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles): 12 Step into Reading Books

These books were perfect for our 7 year old grandson. He loves the Ninja Turtles and learning to read was easy with these beginning reading books.

I bought these for my 4 year old grandson and he loves them.

Perfect gift for my kindergarten grandson. He loves those Ninja Turtles.

Nice set. Smaller than expected, but definutely a quslity set as far as tesching sight words and long and short vowrl sounds and consonents. Keeps kiddos attention sonce it is tmnt themed! Comes in a nice little boxed set that makes it easy to clesn up and store neatly

Great educational content for kids..

This is getting my VPK son to start reading. Love the books.

Very thin paper, think magazine paper. But grandson loves this set.!

My sons (ages 3&5) love these books dearly. The way the words are laid out, on a blank page or at least separate from the illustrations, are appropriate for beginning readers or kids that can only identify letters and some words. The front covers are a bit difficult for a new reader to read as the letters of the title are stylized in the “TMNT font” and there is a lot of extra words on the front. I gave a three star rating because the stories do not always make much sense, a common enough affliction for these phonics books. But my kids have been exposed to enough cohesive narratives and rich characters to be annoyed by the storylines. For example, one story has the turtles being chased by droids in the van, but nothing about how they escape. Here is the text of that page and the next: “They get chased on the way. The van shakes! Oh, no! The cake! (Turn the page) The cake is okay! The turtles are safe.” My kids are never satisfied by this and other similar storylines and I end up making up what happens. In other books in the series the storylines are still simple but make sense all the way through. This could have been done better in all 12 books. Also, the illustrations are clearly reused several times - a small thing, I’m sure to keep the cost down. I’m not even sure my kids care. But I’ve seen better beginning reading series and phonics books that retain some integrity of narrative and put full effort into the illustrations; however, I haven’t yet found one for these particular characters. Overall, sufficient for what I purchased them for. I do appreciate that the narratives are tame and not too scary, important for the age range (preschool through kindergarten or 1st grade) at which the reading level is aimed. I also do not like that the letter a used is represented by a non-standard a, not the one taught in most writing books. My kids know that this a represents the sound the standard a makes, but it is unnecessary at this level and could have been fixed by choosing a different font.

These books are very small and thin, with simple stories, but for kids just learning to read they're very helpful. If your child is into TMNT then this set motivates them quite well. My 4 year old in reception uses these books to practice reading each night, and finds them much more engaging than some of the reading schemes from school, because it has his favourite characters in it. It's set out well so you can see which sound each book focuses on - like one focus on the short A sound, like jam, jab etc.. so those words will all get featured, and one will be the short i sound, others are slightly trickier sounds, and then you get a couple that are mixed. These are more specific phonic based than the normal step into reading books, and as mentioned they are smaller, so don't expect it to be quite the same as the other stand alone books, but it is a good set for kids of about 4-5 who are learning

I recieved it awhile ago and my kid loves it when we read to him, they are short stories so we read several at a time

コレクションとして購入しました。 日本人からするとphonicsというより絵を楽しむ感じです。 綺麗な発音の人が読めばphonicsの学習に役立つかなとは思いますが… 小さな冊子がたくさん入っていてお得です！

Great books - not too many pages, great graphics and easy to read for children who are learning.

Muy buen sistema de lectura. Mi hijo de 5 está fascinado con el set.