Monday, July 23, 2012

Learning How to Read Next Steps: Disney's Adventures in Reading

In my April 15 post, Learning How to Read First Books, I listed websites that featured simple 1-page stories that my daughter could follow. While she was happy to finally read on her own, the novelty of these simple, repetitive tales soon wore off and she started looking for real books with real stories. Unfortunately, a lot of the Level 1 learn-to-read type books were still too complicated for her and frustrated her to no end.

Disney came to our rescue with their new Reading Adventures Pre-Level 1 set. Each boxed set contains 10 illustrated books, stickers, achievement certificate, and parent letter. The stories, while simple, are engaging to the little ones due to their familiar characters and themes like friendship, feelings, seasons, etc. I bought the Mickey Mouse set to start with. My daughter read through the whole set in two days and loves the books! It also gave her the confidence to try reading other, more complicated books using similar sight words. I'm looking forward to trying the Winnie the Pooh version next.

Both boxed sets are available locally, at National Bookstore.