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Originally Posted by issybird
How old is she? Maybe some of us could come up with possibilities. Does she read at age level? Above? Below? I envy you. I think reading kids’ book with a kid is one of the great pleasures.
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She's nine. I believe her reading level is very high. She's never had issues reading the words on anything I've given here. But comprehension took some work. At home, she never read.
When she got here, we started with short picture/story books. Whatever the appropriate term is for Jumanji, Zathura and the better half's old Care Bears books (which my niece tore through in a few days). She loves Shel Silverstein's poetry books.
We progressed from there.
She loved the first Captain Underpants, so I bought her the next seven. In between she watched the TV series. So she took forever to read the rest of the books. Curse you Netflix!
Roald Dahl, she loved James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and The Fantastic Mr. Fox. She slogged through Matilda and decided The Witches looks too scary. We're planning on reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory together.
She borrowed Coraline from the library and loved it at first. But then decided it was too scary. Quite honestly, on that one I think she was too familiar with the movie and so soon the novelty of reading the book wore off.
She enjoyed Raina Telgemeier's books. I borrowed another graphic novel, Roller Girl which she said was okay, yet she laughed whenever she told us about it.
We read Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona, which she enjoyed, but wasn't crazy about.
We typically read an Encyclopedia Brown story every night. These are short, five page kids detective stories. At the end, they ask you to figure out how Encyclopedia solved the case and you have to flip to the end for the solution. This gives us a chance to talk over the story and search for clues.
I loved those books as a kid myself, so her enjoyment of them is a treat. We're on book 9 now.
If in that mess you can come up with some recommendations, I'll take them.
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The library is a colossal loss. I was talking with the woman across the street the other day who’s a professor at the local university, and she was bemoaning her seven-year old’s reading level. I have yet to find a kid who is resistant to being let loose in the library (with a little informed influence from the adult at hand). FWIW, she may find books with girls set a flame. Good on you; you’re giving her an incalculable gift in reading.
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Yeah, before Coronavirus, we took her to both the library and Half Price books. I really miss that.