Kids

[TheHamburglar]

So may oldest is in 2nd grade & is the youngest because of an August birthday & skipped kindergarten. She should be in 1st grade. She just took a lexile test that puts hers reading at a 7th/8th grade level.

Does anyone have a good book series to start with her? I gave the background above because while she is a very advanced reader, she still has the maturity of a 7 year old. If we give her something too complicated that she can read the words but doesn’t know what they mean, she asks us a question every paragraph & she gets frustrated. I know some people will say just challenge her, but we still want reading to be fun for her & not turn her off to it. She did like The Magic Treehouse a year ago & knocked 2-3 of those out a day & was done with the series in a few weeks. She’s still getting random books at the Library at that level but she’s getting bored with them.

Would she get the disc world books? I’ve heard those have a lot of references that she wouldn’t get.

[Spracne]

So may oldest is in 2nd grade & is the youngest because of an August birthday & skipped kindergarten. She should be in 1st grade. She just took a lexile test that puts hers reading at a 7th/8th grade level.

Does anyone have a good book series to start with her? I gave the background above because while she is a very advanced reader, she still has the maturity of a 7 year old. If we give her something too complicated that she can read the words but doesn’t know what they mean, she asks us a question every paragraph & she gets frustrated. I know some people will say just challenge her, but we still want reading to be fun for her & not turn her off to it. We’ve did like The Magic Treehouse a year ago & she knocked 2-3 of those out a day & was done with the series in a few weeks. She’s still getting random books at the Library at that level but she’s getting bored with them.

Would she get the disc world books? I’ve heard those have a lot of references that she wouldn’t get.

How about this brainiac idea: buy her a dictionary, or a tablet open to an online dictionary, w/e. 

[bucket]

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and/or Harry Potter?

[Kat Kid]

So may oldest is in 2nd grade & is the youngest because of an August birthday & skipped kindergarten. She should be in 1st grade. She just took a lexile test that puts hers reading at a 7th/8th grade level.

Does anyone have a good book series to start with her? I gave the background above because while she is a very advanced reader, she still has the maturity of a 7 year old. If we give her something too complicated that she can read the words but doesn’t know what they mean, she asks us a question every paragraph & she gets frustrated. I know some people will say just challenge her, but we still want reading to be fun for her & not turn her off to it. She did like The Magic Treehouse a year ago & knocked 2-3 of those out a day & was done with the series in a few weeks. She’s still getting random books at the Library at that level but she’s getting bored with them.

Would she get the disc world books? I’ve heard those have a lot of references that she wouldn’t get.

Is she in to non-fiction at all? A lot of books there depending upon her interests.

[TheHamburglar]

So may oldest is in 2nd grade & is the youngest because of an August birthday & skipped kindergarten. She should be in 1st grade. She just took a lexile test that puts hers reading at a 7th/8th grade level.

Does anyone have a good book series to start with her? I gave the background above because while she is a very advanced reader, she still has the maturity of a 7 year old. If we give her something too complicated that she can read the words but doesn’t know what they mean, she asks us a question every paragraph & she gets frustrated. I know some people will say just challenge her, but we still want reading to be fun for her & not turn her off to it. She did like The Magic Treehouse a year ago & knocked 2-3 of those out a day & was done with the series in a few weeks. She’s still getting random books at the Library at that level but she’s getting bored with them.

Would she get the disc world books? I’ve heard those have a lot of references that she wouldn’t get.

Is she in to non-fiction at all? A lot of books there depending upon her interests.

I think she’d enjoy non-fiction. Just trying to find anything that’s a level-up for her that others posters’ kids have enjoyed.

[MakeItRain]

Look at that fanningbrag! Have her read The Wretched of the Earth and report back to the board.

[TheHamburglar]

Look at that fanningbrag! Have her read The Wretched of the Earth and report back to the board.

[Kat Kid]

Look at that fanningbrag! Have her read The Wretched of the Earth and report back to the board.

Yes!

[WillieWatanabe]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

[catastrophe]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

[TheHamburglar]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

I had the books memorized, but so did my daughter with what pages went with what words. I would just recite & let her turn the pages, but she’d yell at me when my closed eye reciting got off schedule with her page turning.

[SkinnyBenny]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

This. I have absolutely zero recognition or comprehension of the very basic stories I read aloud at bedtime. Like immediately afterward.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

So may oldest is in 2nd grade & is the youngest because of an August birthday & skipped kindergarten. She should be in 1st grade. She just took a lexile test that puts hers reading at a 7th/8th grade level.

Does anyone have a good book series to start with her? I gave the background above because while she is a very advanced reader, she still has the maturity of a 7 year old. If we give her something too complicated that she can read the words but doesn’t know what they mean, she asks us a question every paragraph & she gets frustrated. I know some people will say just challenge her, but we still want reading to be fun for her & not turn her off to it. She did like The Magic Treehouse a year ago & knocked 2-3 of those out a day & was done with the series in a few weeks. She’s still getting random books at the Library at that level but she’s getting bored with them.

Would she get the disc world books? I’ve heard those have a lot of references that she wouldn’t get.

Anything by Kate DiCamillo starting with Mercy Watson
Nancy Drew
Boxcar Children
Beatrice Zenker

[Spracne]

I Am The Cheese, by Robert Cormier

[KST8FAN]

Any Billy Goats Gruff fans?  Mrs 8 used to narrate and was the voices of the troll and goats.


Tom

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[Sandstone Outcropping]

Any Billy Goats Gruff fans?  Mrs 8 used to narrate and was the voices of the troll and goats.


Tom

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Oh man. I loved doing the voices for that book. We even had a game at the playground where I would be the “big dad troll” and chase the kids back and forth over the bridge at the playground. They’ve pretty much outgrown playgrounds now.

[KST8FAN]

Any Billy Goats Gruff fans?  Mrs 8 used to narrate and was the voices of the troll and goats.


Tom

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Oh man. I loved doing the voices for that book. We even had a game at the playground where I would be the “big dad troll” and chase the kids back and forth over the bridge at the playground. They’ve pretty much outgrown playgrounds now.

Yes!  Troll lived under the slipper slide and the boys had to navigate the bridge and not get caught.


Tom

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[WillieWatanabe]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

I had the books memorized, but so did my daughter with what pages went with what words. I would just recite & let her turn the pages, but she’d yell at me when my closed eye reciting got off schedule with her page turning.

ms ww can tell when i'm not paying attention. I goof up some of the words and start ad libing.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

I had the books memorized, but so did my daughter with what pages went with what words. I would just recite & let her turn the pages, but she’d yell at me when my closed eye reciting got off schedule with her page turning.

ms ww can tell when i'm not paying attention. I goof up some of the words and start ad libing.

WW our girl is going through that same phase. her current favorite book is I Might Be Little, it has a bunch of flaps on each of the pages which i think is her favorite part. She also loves anything by Sandra Boynton but can be very finnicky like she will love it for a week and then never want to read it again for the next 2 months and then love it again.

[steve dave]

Books I can recite verbatim if called upon:

Going on a bear hunt
The entire little blue truck library
About 1/3 of elephant and piggie books

[steve dave]

Also elephant and piggie are the bitb

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Our almost 14 month old has really started to enjoy us reading books to him, which is great. What is not so great is he wants to read the same few books over and over and will scream if we stop. 

I’m to the point that for a lot of story time I’m thinking of something completely different like work or football while my mouth just recites the story. Complete autopilot.

I had the books memorized, but so did my daughter with what pages went with what words. I would just recite & let her turn the pages, but she’d yell at me when my closed eye reciting got off schedule with her page turning.

ms ww can tell when i'm not paying attention. I goof up some of the words and start ad libing.

WW our girl is going through that same phase. her current favorite book is I Might Be Little, it has a bunch of flaps on each of the pages which i think is her favorite part. She also loves anything by Sandra Boynton but can be very finnicky like she will love it for a week and then never want to read it again for the next 2 months and then love it again.

Miss reading those Sandra Boynton books. Have a video of our daughter reading Blue Hat Green Hat where she goes "WHOOPS!" really loud and the chuckles to herself. Not to get overly sentimental but those read-aloud times are precious and fleeting. Soak it up.

[steve dave]

Oh man, my daughter used to laugh her entire ass off at the whoops in that book. So pure.

[CHONGS]

Also elephant and piggie are the bitb

Can confirm.

[MakeItRain]

Also elephant and piggie are the bitb

Duck and Goose