What are your children reading?

[Tanikit]

Haven't updated in a while - my daughter got chicken pox and that slowed things down a bit, although even through that she did read some books.

Little Red Riding Hood (Level 3 of old Ladybird Read it Yourself)
The Enormous Turnip (Level 2 of Old Ladybird Read it Yourself) - we do go backwards sometimes as this seems to build confidence
We have started some of level 3 of Oxford Reading Tree though she will only read some of these books - she can read it all, but mostly I read to her and she reads some sentences.
Put me in the Zoo
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr Seuss - I also read most of this and she reads a few pages - again she knows all the words)
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish (Dr Seuss - same story these books seem to be too long for her and me)
Kate and the crocodile (Book 5 of another Ladybird Series - sorry tired tonight and don't feel like checking which)

She is also now reading more when we are out and about - she will read a lot of signs and even sentences written on shop doors or when we are at a restaurant and need something to do while waiting for the food then she reads the bottles of sauces or the specials. She is also showing and interest in what she calls "tiny words" - words written in very small font usually on an advert where I have pointed out the larger font.

I have started reading her a Disney encyclopaedia although I do paraphrase quite a bit - she learnt the word troglodyte and spelunking today and was quite happy telling Dad about caves this evening.
We also read her Balto, the bravest dog, Planet Earth (and Usborne book) and Cowboys (another Usborne beginner book which she loved)
We are reading 101 favourite Bible STories which is actually quite a difficult book for her age and again where necessary I will paraphrase, but she is managing it really well even in its original format.
We were reading chapter books, but put a hold on it while she was sick an will probably start again in the New Year as they took too much concentration from her.

Next year I will start homeschooling her full time since I will be on maternity leave. We have started teaching her to tell the time and are working on more basic math - she is showing more interest in numbers. I will continue the reading and expand in various ways on other subjects. Will also start teaching writing though I have no idea how she will do with this as up til now we have done mostly patterns and tracing but she is showing more of an interest there too.

[linzy]

My son (4 yrs old) is reading lots of series:

Nate the Great
Cam Jansen
Jigsaw Jones

and then whatever "school reading" I have him do

[Tanikit]

We took a break from reading for a while as Laurana was getting a bit restless with it.

She is now reading Book 4b of Ladybird Reading Series to get her back into it with words she knows well
Frisky and the ducks
The See-Saw (Stroyworlds series level 3)

[TracyR4]

We are reading 

Bob Books
Early Reader Books
Aesop Fables books from Brillkids
Dr. Seuss books
Early Reader books that I have
beginnger books from the library.
We do lots of reading together.  My daughter really likes Fancy Nancy and Pinky Dinky Doo

[Maquenzie]

My 4 year, 5 month old is going through the BOB books, 1 a night.  He's currently doing the Kindergarten Sight Words set. I didn't do early learning with him (or not like I'm doing with the baby now, or what's common here). He learned the alphabet/letter sounds about 6 months ago.

[linzy]

Mainly school reading for my 4 year old recently:
Capyboppy, The Gods Must be Angry, Caterpillars and Butterflies, Eggs and Chicks, Tadpoles and Frogs, Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?, Stone Soup and other folk tale retellings, Miss Rumphius, The Story of Little Babaji, Mary on Horseback,  The Bird Woman Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition

And then in his free time he has ben devouring "The secret of Droon" series. Its kind of like a less violent more young child appropriate Harry potter,

[Tanikit]

Frisky and the cat
Frisky wants to sleep
The lost coat

Is your 4 year old reading all those books for school or do you read some with him? I see a few are in the sonlight P4/5 (not sure what it is called now) curriculum - what school curriculum do you follow or do you make it up yourself?

[linzy]

We make it up for ourselves. Our reading list is a combo of Robinson curriculum, Ambleside online, Old fashioned education, Great books and Sonlight. He mainly reads to himself, sometimes the harder ones to me.

[Tanikit]

Laurana is now reading level 5a and 5b of ladybird key words and we are repeating the Dr Seuss books for repetition. I again took a break from the reading as she seemed to need more phonics than she had and I needed to sort out what I would teach her. We are now doing a phonics programme alongside the reading and she is reading some pages from a larger variety of books now too. I also started I can take away today (Dr Seuss early subtraction workbook) and found she is quite capable of reading the instructions herself.

[ShenLi]

My son is 4 years and 8 months. Books we have on our shelves which he has read by himself:

- Thomas the Railway stories (the original series by Rev W Awdry, not the dumbed down reprinted versions that are floating around a lot these days). He only reads the stories he likes though.

- We've a good collection of Dr Seuss books - he can read the yellow covers by himself. He also likes the Cat in the Hat Learning Library (Inside your outside, oh the things you can do that are good for you, etc.)

- He's gone through most of the Mr Men books (we bought the box set for him).

- He's read a few of the Berestain Bears books that I bought for him.

- various books about Dinosaurs, including his favourite currently - Nat Geo Dinopedia. He's mad about dinosaurs and will even read Wiki entries on the computer.

- recently, I started him on Roald Dahl. He went through The Magic Finger really fast so we went onto Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and now Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Initially he didn't want to read it but I promised to read it to him. Now he's so into the story that he starts reading without me. Whenever my younger son interrupts us, he'll take the book and continue reading himself rather than wait for me to get back.

We don't really follow a reading series - I think he's not really disciplined enough for that. He still enjoys reading basic stuff like "How do dinosaurs go to school?" And other times, he'll read more to his level. I don't make an issue of it so long as he reads on a daily basis. Even though he can read all the books on his bookshelf by himself, he still likes to be read to.

[Tanikit]

I have started reading The Magic Tree House Series to my 4 year old now - she is not ready to read them herself yet, but is learning a lot and enjoying them so I will carry on reading the ones I can get hold of and she can always read them again if she wants to. Most of the books I am reading to her now are chapter books with few pictures though she still enjoys some of the books I read to my baby and we also read more advanced picture books to her too.

I got book 6a of the Ladybird series for her even though I was planning at stopping at book 5 - she does have enough key words now and I did not teach her any of the new words in book 6 before letting her read it - there is something she finds familiar in those books that seem to keep her reading and I am not sure what it is - even though the books are harder than ones I would choose for her she seems to feel more confident reading them and had no difficulty with any of the new words. I have ordered book 7-12 (only the a series)for her too and will see what happens with these. I am about to start Little Bear with her next (we are still reading everything together)

As for the phonics she has done all the short vowel sounds and the diphthongs SH, TH, CH, PH, WH,, the ING, ONG, ANG, UNG sounds and QU and CK. Next week we will start with the long vowel sounds starting with the silent E. Because my DD has only ever really been taught the letter sounds and not their names I must first check that she does know the vowel names before moving on - I suspect she does know them though as she learnt them off starfall and from singing the alphabet song but I also have not even taught her what a vowel is, so we will be learning that too.

Her reading has advanced since doing the phonics and she is sounding out all words she does not know by herself now - since the print she is reading in some of the books is quite small I do occassionally have to help her as she loses her place sometimes.

[Mandabplus3]

The magic tree house is very popular in our house too! All of them love it. We bought a boxed set of the first 28 books of amazon for   About $60 au $2 a book! If the kids really like one of the stories we will buy the companion book on the subject an delve in deeper to the learning. Does anyone know of any other series like magic tree house that has a story based around true facts for children? We would love some more novels like this.
 I can recommend a few more books to try as I know it can be difficult to find appropriate content and that in between difficulty! In order of difficulty
Zac powers : has different levels great for boys who read early as it has large print
 fancy Nancy level one by Jane occonor for girly girls,  or any level one book in the I can read series these include batman books and every other possible interest!
Tashi : some hard words but they seem to be repeated, try to get the individual stories rather than the big book of as the big book is too big!
Billie b brown then junie  j jones for girls
Pearlie by Wendy harmer for girls who like pink!
Aussie nibbles wonderful individual stories
Rainbow magic series by daisy meadows, loads of books hear with a save the planet theme.
Magic tree house slots in here our top choice!
Roll Dahl books
 Famous five Enid blighton books
Aussie bites a harder version of Aussie nibbles
Aussie chomps harder again. By this stage your kid can read anything and you will be scanning books to ensure the content is safe faster than lightning to keep up with your kids reading appetite!

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Roll Dahl books

I just had to chime in and say Roald Dahl was one of my absolute favorite childhood authors. I was fascinated by Matilda, simply fascinated, and even as a child I loved the idea of this tiny little girl devouring stacks of books. Little did I know I would one day have my own Matilda.  I really look forward to reading those books to my DD before bed when she gets a bit older.

[Skylark]

One of the Books we have read on the regular basics over the last year is Beginners Bible http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Bible-Timeless-Childrens-Stories/dp/0310709628

My kids just love it, daddy usually reads it with them before bed. Our oldest girl went through it already and finished it for the first time a couple of months ago. We continue reading different stories from it, but were looking for some additional activities, and found this excellent resource:

http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Bible-Cards-James-Leninger/dp/B000AO6P6E

These are Beginner Bible's cards, they use the same art style and characters, as Beginner's Bible, but go more in depth on different stories, Bible facts, Characters. We just got them and started supplementing our Bible stories, and the oldest really liked it.

It actually build a bit like Bible EK cards, have fun illustration on the front, and then tons of interesting facts on the back. I was considering underlining some main fact and just reading those, but so far my girl liked us reading it straight.

I thought to share it.

[Skylark]

TmT, now I am intrigued and want to check out Roll Dahl books    I have never read them ( growing up abroad    )

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