What are your children reading?

[LDSMom]

My son is 4 yrs and is currently on set 3 of the Bob Books, he's mastered set 1 and 2 and the kindergarten sight words set. He's also reading or attempting to read everything in sight which is just really fun! We just got Bob set 3 and he's gone through 5 of them a couple of times so far (he reads 2 books a day). It only takes a couple of read throughs for him to either memorize the story or the new words in the books. I'm just really proud of him. It's so amazing to have watched him go from sounding out flesche cards, to being able to figure out what the word says, to being able to say it faster without sounding each letter out, to reading a book, and seeing him read sight words. It's just such a fun experience.

[DadDude]

In the last few months, H. (now age 5.5), for his hour of reading in the afternoon, has been working on The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes, Harry Potter #2, Henry and Ribsy, Henry Huggins, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, and Ralph S. Mouse (we're on a Beverly Cleary kick).  A few weeks ago he got sick of chapter books and requested to read some old science books.  I had no problem with that so he re-read a dozen or more "Let's Read and Find Out" books, which are great.

Obviously, he's reading a lot more to himself than he was a year ago--but I'll be honest, that's only because I'm making him do so.  Now that he's five, I have fewer qualms about requiring him to do some stuff--although I still try to keep things as interesting as possible for him.  He doesn't object too much (most days), and gets into some of the books.  He is all excited about mice and motorcycles just now...

[Skylark]

We've been emphasizing on Russian reading for the last 4 month. And since we were visiting our family over there, we got more variety of books and also people to read them with, which made both of my LOs definitely more interested in Russian reading and literature.

We've been reading classical Russian poetry by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov; folk tales in Russian, children classics in Russian. We basically went all out Russian in the last 4 months, and we saw good results. We are not worried about English reading, -- she loved it always and wants to do it every time there is a chance, but getting them both interested and excited in reading in Russian was important, and I am happy about results.

[Mandabplus3]

Skylark you simply must check out the Rhoal Dahl books! ( I don't know how it is spelt and I am too lazy to go check)  They are fabulous and there are plenty to choose from my personal favorites are the BFG ( big friendly giant) and James and the giant peach. The BFG is great for a read aloud story.  Also Paul Jennings is popular with boys who have a twisted sence of humour ( full of lizard guts etc) great of you to help them be interested in their russion books.

[Skylark]

I definitely will! 

[Tanikit]

This web page gives a good list of books that can be read by early readers.

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/early_readers.htm

[linzy]

My son (Age 5.5) has been reading this month Dr. Dolittle, The wizard of Oz, Pinnochio, Ten and twenty, some poetry books and the Basher science books (he's read all of those over and over). My little guy (26 months) is reading the Meet the sight words volume one books.

[Tanikit]

I am trying to move now to read picture books that I read to her as a 2 and 3 year old with her. We started with Ruby flew too! today and she managed better than I had thought she would with a lot of vocabulary she has not read before. I am also working on fluency issues with her by making her follow words in a book with her finger while we play the book for her (on CD/DVD or even youtube has a few) - we did "The Tiger who came to tea" the other day. I am also getting her to read nursery rhymes and baby books to her sister with as much expression as possible.

[iwini]

My collections for my2.7 yr are some Indian mythical story books.
some animal dictionary book
she loves animals  so much
I also included baby animals book
safety rules,environmental studies
counting math book of Delhi publications
flash cards hand made  for counting numbers.
large drawing books included activity where she can read and scribble there.she is doing great.

[Ayesha Nicole]

For English, we got the entire Bob Books series, and we go through them on the Doman schedule (1 set of 5 books, retire the oldest, and add a new one each day).  They are currently on Set 3. 

For fun, the girls enjoy reading:

Big Blue Book of Beginner Books (Beginner Books(R)) [Hardcover]
P.D. Eastman (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375855521/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0679879277&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=102406EJFXMR4DS478BP

and

THE BIG RED BOOK OF BEGINNER BOOKS [Hardcover]
Pd and Joan Et Al Eastman (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/BIG-RED-BOOK-BEGINNER-BOOKS/dp/0679879277

to each other.  And it is a very a sweet moment when they read their bedtime stories to us, instead of us reading to them.    I also will get the additional book for them soon:

The Big Green Book of Beginner Books (Beginner Books(R)) [Hardcover]
Dr. Seuss (Author), James Stevenson (Illustrator), George Booth (Illustrator), Roy McKie (Illustrator), Michael Smollin (Illustrator)
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Green-Book-Beginner-Books/dp/0375858075/ref=pd_sim_b_1

and they read other books we have, but these are their favorites at the moment.

For Arabic, they are reading Classical Arabic from our holy book, the Qur'an, along with the English translations, and for Modern Standard Arabic (fushaah) they are rapidly moving through these very simple books:

http://www.noorart.com/shop_category/Word-Word-Series

And we will get them some more advance Arabic readers soon. 

[mypashmina]

Julia Donaldson books are well liked.

especially - Zog , a Squash and a Squeeze, the snail and the whale, room on the broom

I have started typing them out and printing them without the pictures, just nice big words. He seems to like them just as much.

In Swedish
Lilleman , Nej Inte Tadlekeren (not not the dentist) , and Mimbo Jimbo.

W usually wants his Mum to read to him in Swedish and Dad to read in English.  I translated Nej Inte Tadläkeren in to English, but W sort of melted and became upset and emotional and wanted his Mummy !  It was quite a strange reaction.

There seem to be quite a lot of kids books that are funny (for adults) in Sweden  (many of which seem to be translated from French).  Its hard to find funny books in England or English speaking.

[Tanikit]

Today we started A big ball of String. The nursery rhymes she wouldn't read the same one again today so I gave her "Boys and Girls come out to play" As long as she reads them at least twice I do see some improvement in her fluency but I wish she'd agree to read them for a few days.

[Tanikit]

We have been reading shorter books now and going through them relatively quickly:
You Can't Catch Me!
The Boy who cried Wolf
Clever Rabbit and the Lion
The Day the Sheep Showed up
Hre fluency is improving slowly and her reading vocabulary is advancing fast so I think she is sounding out words without saying the letters now - she just seems to know what they are. We are still doing shared reading most of the time.

[DadDude]

H. is into series these days:

Flat Stanley
Henry Huggins
Magic Tree House (again--he's now catching up to the most recent installments, and reading them only by himself)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (read by himself, requested the next)
Little House on the Prairie (loves it)

[fma001]

My 6 year old reads a lot of American Girl, Boxcar Children, Hardy Boys, Jigsaw Jones and abridged classics. I saw a boy picking out American Girl books at the library one day. Try them if you have boys. My daughter has learned so much history from them.

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