READY, SET, READ! Introduce your child to the letters of the alphabet with this fun and colorful box set from the experts at Random House! Inside you’ll find 12 leveled storybooks featuring friendly animal characters, an activity sheet, and a helpful parent guide. Perfect for early readers just getting started! Kids will learn to: • Recognize lower and uppercase letters A-L •Identify beginning word sounds • Connect beginning sounds and words THE READING HOUSE is a step-by-step learn-to-read program that takes kids aged 4-7 from letter recognition all the way up to independent reading. With four distinct stages, choosing the box set that’s just right for your child is simple. The sets in Stage One: Getting Started introduce children to the 26 upper- and lower-case letter pairs in the alphabet. The simple stories, decodable words, picture cues, and bright, colorful artwork make it easy to raise a confident, happy reader!

"Contains 16 picture cards, each with it's own image and touchable texture. First Words features common animals like fish, dogs, and cats, as well as household items like keys and shoes, and vehicles like cars, tractors, and fire trucks. The back of each picture card has word translations in Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, and phonetic spellings to help with pronunciation. There are also questions about the related animal or object. A guidance card for parents and caregivers, which has tips for learning games and ideas for additional language activities, is included in the pack."--Adapted from Amazon.com description

Cards help your child learn basic words. Each card presents a word, plus a colorful picture representing that word.

Each card shows a picture of a familiar word, its alphabetical spelling and breakdown of its phonetic components, with one card for each of the 44 basic phonemes in English. Synthetic phonic learning is the process of reading by sounding the individual sounds of a word and then blending them together to read the word as a whole.

Double-sided picture cards designed to help young children associate written words with common objects and activities. For preschoolers.

Cards feature full-color illustrations of objects that are examples of hard and soft consonants, long and short vowels, and initial blends.

"Brighter Child® First Words Flash Cards offer children a fun way to practice their first words to prepare for school. The set features 54 cards that help reinforce phonics, letter recognition, and reading readiness skills with full-color illustrations. A special card also offers creative game ideas designed to reinforce learning." --Publisher's website.