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

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.

Great product, exactly as described, and arrived quickly. Very happy with my purchase and would definitely order again

I work as a teacher's aid in a special education middle school classroom. Our class is a self contained, MID class. Our students range from abilities, but they are all lower intellects. They all have troubles with reading and read at beginning levels. I'm a former elementary teacher and when I started working as an aid last year, I suggested that we use phonics reading sets to work with all of the kids. I collected a few sets last year and we had some success with them. I wanted to get something new for this year, so I found this set. One of the biggest issues with our students is finding material that is interesting to them. They are teenagers and a lot of the phonics sets are too babyish for them. These books are fun and interesting to them. We're not reading things like "see the cat". The stories are engaging to them. Most of the vocabulary is okay. They do struggle with some of the names of the turtles, but some of the kids are familiar with them already, so their prior knowledge helps them. I wish there were more sets like this with the appeal to older kids.

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

My kindergartener has really disliked reading until these came in the mail today. The BOB books were so painful for him to get through, but he ripped these open and started eagerly attempting to read them right away. He finished the first book and asked for another, then went and read one to his little sister. My child is competent with most phonograms but struggles to sound words out and put them all together. This was the motivation he needed to keep going. These are great for early readers who are familiar with phonics but haven't had alot of practice actually reading. There are a few longer words, but the list at the beginning of the book helps if you go over the words first before your child attempts to reads.

Great educational content for kids..

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

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.

The nephew LOVES it and so did I! It's a wonderful gift for a small adult and a big child! Don't break a small adult's heart by not knowing the names of their favourite ninjas so here's a quick summary for the big children= 1 Donatello=Purple eye mask 2. Raphael=Red eye mask 3. Leonardo=Blue eye mask 4. Michelangelo=Orange eye mask 5. Splinter=The ninjutsu rat (you) 6. Shredder=The supervillain (Wolverine cosplayer) 7. Krang=The supervillain who is a brain-like Alien but never call him a Utrom because even he didn't call himself that. Do you get it, parents? No? Use this as a reference guide if your child gives you dirty looks for confusing the turtles because they're named after the four most famous Renaissance artists and Antonio da Corregio wasn't included because he's Teenage mutant ninja Waldo, perhaps... Donatello was Italian and Italians love their Purple Garlic. Raphael starts with an R so that's Red. Leo, like the guy in the Titanic movie... He drowned in the blue sea so that's blue. Michelangelo... Angels like to eat oranges so that's orange. Have a nice day.