Via RSS feed.November 27th, 2009
Found Readers She Likes!
Some of you might know that we’ve had some problems finding readers that my daughter (6) would actually ENJOY practicing with. She hasn’t been liking the little “Bob Book” style readers – she’s not too keen on the black-and-white line drawings, and the small format. She hasn’t been liking our big reading textbook. But what she does like are some used Scott Foresman Reading readers that I got used on Bookmooch that came with some other titles I’d mooched.
What I don’t understand is how these fit into the whole system. What I have are softcovers from 1987 that used to belong to a school. There isn’t any instruction, just full color illustrations and simple stories that my daughter really likes to read. When we encounter a word that uses a rule she’s unfamiliar with I just informally teach it to her verbally, and this has really been working well. Now if only I can figure out how their leveling system works, and how I can find some more of these!
Measle loves the stories in “Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons”. Have you tried it?
I’m glad you found some great readers. I made the mistake of getting my kids whatever would encourage them to read- Bionicle, etc for my son, Barbie, etc for my daughter. I’ve had to wean them off those poor quality books. I bet your 1987 readers are good ones! I still have books from when I was a kid.
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Yes, I second “Teach Your Child to read”… We also read the Dick and Jane readers. God bless you– your testimony was beautiful!
Thanks Faith! I think we might get some Dick and Jane titles!
Celee – the type of readers we’re using are very simple, stories about ducks, frogs etc. They aren’t as advanced as the Bionicle type would be I imagine – my little brother devours the chapter books (we don’t really go in for that though either). I’m wondering if Abeka’s readers might be a good choice, their website looks good.
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Jennifer, school-based readers almost universally follow the format of PP1,PP2, PP3, P, 1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 4, 5,…They all also almost universally make it hard to tell which is which at first glance. However, look at the spine, or the back of the book near the ISBN. Are there letters, numbers, Dots, Squares… There probably is a code on them if you know what you are looking for
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