Disney Princess: Reading Adventures Disney Princess Level 1 Boxed Set

If I could give these more than 5 stars I would. My daughter is in Kindergarten and learning sight words but had told me she “hates reading” and was being extremely obstinate any time I tried to get her to read with me. We had tried Bob Books, as those had been very successful with children I babysat years ago. She hated them. And no wonder, who wants to struggle to read books with no color that have no plot and no interesting characters? My daughter is not a huge Disney Princess fan, but I figured after seeing how she responded positively to a Step Into Reading Level 1 Rapunzel book that these might be a good choice. SO HAPPY!The sentences do have plenty of sight words and most are repetition-based with the similarly structured sentences on every page with only a few words or phrases changed. If you’re not an educator you might not see this as a plus. But it absolutely is because it enables the child to practice reading and recognizing the same patterns of words over and over again. Won’t they just memorize the sentence from the previous page? No. They can’t because the sentences are different and you can’t read the next page unless you know where the similarities start and end and you can’t know that without actually reading the sentence. For an advanced reader this is obvious, but for an early reader, not so much.The set also comes with 2 pages of Disney Princess stickers and a certificate. The way we used them is that after my daughter had read a book, she was able to choose one of the stickers (usually she chose the one that matched the princess in the book) and place it on the inside cover. After she had completed all of them once, we filled out the certificate, laminated it, and now she proudly has it displayed in her bedroom!She loves the books so much that she has continued to read them and stick more stickers in the inside covers. It makes her feel proud and shows how many times she’s read each book. Eventually we’ll run out of stickers and that’s fine.Now she says “I love reading! Reading is my favorite thing to do!” Ahh, how quickly things change. Certainly not going to remind her than not long ago she’s was insisting that she hated reading. I am so happy with this set and so proud of my child. I wish they had more sets.Overall, I highly recommend this purchase if your child is reading-ready (5-ish) and likes princesses. This set truly helped my child develop a love of reading. What more could a parent want? Buy this set.

Such great books for early readers. My daughters love these books and recognize the site words right away.

As an educator, I knew what I needed in terms of good "teaching to read" books. My daughter just recently turned four and these books are great for her. They use repetition within each book, so your child can become familiar with what each word is aka they can READ. The books are also simple, so using picture clues to determine the verbs and nouns is helpful in figuring out the words are that aren't commonly used. To parents: get some highlighter tape and use it to highlight those repetitive words (ex: 'She can' and 'with her') so that they can SHOW you they know the words. Use them as studying words for the week. You can also, another day, use highlighter tape to highlight nouns or verbs.Lastly, yes, it's annoying to see that in a children's book, they have kissing and marriage (Belle and Cinderella books), but as a parent, it's up to us to make an effort to have that discussion ("Yucky, Cinderella. She's a grown up but that's still not appropriate to kiss in front of others" is the conversation we had). She knows it's not appropriate to kiss or hug anyone other than family bc as a parent, it's my job to teach that. So, do I feel uncomfortable with my kid reading a book with Cinderella kissing the prince? No. I highly recommend this book collection to anyone who is looking to teach their child to read.

My granddaughter loves princesses and when she didn't want to practice reading, these enticed to read.Pictures and story lines helped with the predictability of the text. she was in first-second grade when she used these books.

I purchased this set for my twin daughters who just finished kindergarten this year. One of them is much more confident with reading than the other. So far, they have enjoyed these books a lot because they love Disney princesses. The text is fairly simple, but I do think some words are too hard for young readers. I was hoping these would have more decodables/words they can easily sound out. For example, I think the word "musicians" is a little hard for kids first learning to read and can't really be sounded out. Otherwise, the text is simple, and is pretty repetitive, and they overall feel pretty confident reading these. If your kid likes Disney princesses and you're looking for an inexpensive set of easy ready books, I say get these knowing that you'll likely have to help with with some words!

My grand daughter loves these books. She has just finished K4 and is beginning to read. She reads at least one every night.

Grand-daughter loved them.

A great set to use highly motivating characters while learning to read!

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Lovely pictures. Good little side stories with well known characters.

Bought for my Year 1 daughter who is suffering a few more weeks out of school due to year group covid closure. These are short books, not to be mistaken by parents as story books they can read to their child but very much simple, short repetitive sentences for the child to read (which is what I was after). I didn’t read the description properly so the stickers and certificate that come with the set were a welcome addition.You’ll get through the set quickly no doubt, but in my opinion this in an inexpensive set and helps to boost confidence outside of their usual school reading schemes. These books do NOT simply have all decode-able words/cvc words. That being said, this forces your child to think a little, look for picture clues to work out the word etc. Which isn’t a bad thing. Following this purchase, I went on to buy “World of Reading Disney Classic Characters Level 1 Boxed Set” and this set has strangely much longer sentences and substance to it, but is still titled Level 1?

I bought this for the purpose of bedtime stories replacement while on vacation since I didn’t want to take the whole truck load of books with us. This pack of princess books is great! Each book maybe only has six to eight pages and one sentence on each. My toddler can’t read yet but I can read it with her and show her the words and the pictures on the side. It goes by fast.

It's really about learning how to read but if you read the stories to your child, the writing is not enough: there is only 2 sentences per page.