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

My 6 year old grandson loves these books. Great for any child that likes the Ninjia Turtles to get them interested in reading!

My son loved reading these! They seemed very beneficial for him & helped make reading interesting!

Vienen los 12 mas el instructivo, Son pequeños pero me gustan porque se pueden llevar en el bolso, además son cortos y explicativos

My son loves them, and he is always excited to read them. They are his go to read.These phonics sets normally are for beginner reading.These do include bigger words like character names, and other words a new reader wouldn’t be able to sound out. The main four turtles are a given, but there is villains that are only in maybe 4 episodes that are mentioned. Unless your kid is obsessed with the turtles I don’t suggest as a first read.I do highly suggest the book set though they are super cute short stories with 3 to 4 words on each page. It’s a quick bedtime read for your kid. Or if you’re wanting to get your little ninja turtle excited to read highly suggest it. We do learning actives pretty often, and I normally reference these books, because they are definitely super fun for the little kiddos. Not what I would expect out of a phonics book, but they definitely are my little ninja turtles favorite turtle books.

I was struggling to get my almost 6 year old to practice reading over the summer. It was always a battle and I really just wanted it to be enjoyable for him. Over the summer he got really into TMNT and I wanted to leverage that interest to get him to read. These books are easy enough (he isn't intimidated/discouraged) and I like how they focus on specific sight words and letter sounds and provide enough repetition to make it stick. Each book has a different story and different phonetic focus. My son will easily read us a couple of these in a row willingly, no fuss.

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

My three and five year old Grandsons love these books

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.