What are your children reading?

[Mandabplus3]

I would have been surprised if he wasn't a fast reader! I would bet he is faster than me, lots of practice at an early age is bound to get results.
personally I don't see guessing as a problem early on, provided at least one reading strategy is used to get an answer. Whether that Is phonics, just looking at the first sounds, looking at the picture or grabbing a word from memory. So long as it makes sence of the book it's still reading. Obviously within reason, reading for accuracy is something that will naturally increase with experience and exposure. I still occasionally have my oldest read aloud to me, so she can learn to pronounce some new words. ( ok it's me checking up on her  )  My two learning to read now ( at what point do we stop saying learning to read and decide they can read?  ) are both quite creative and certainly not perfectionists. They will both guess away, my serious Virgo would always sound out every word she didn't know.  I wonder how your second child will differ. You already see the differences, with systematic phonics instruction it will be interesting to see if he guesses at all.
So spiderwick isn't for us yet. We do read the dark fairy tales but as a comparative study, I doubt they would survive a dark novel, bunch of sensitive flowers that they are 

[eschlem]

The E.B. White books are great for introducing chapter books.  Started with Charlotte's Web (watched the film starring Dakota Fanning), then Stuart Little, and now we've started The Trumpet of the Swan. 

We'd go through a chapter, or part of a chapter per night.  I would begin to read while underlining the sentences, until my daughter wanted to take over.  Then she'd read a paragraph or two. 

[Tanikit]

I don't want to turn this into a phonics - sight word debate (we have threads for that and I believe in both methods preferably together) but I think BOTH phonics and sight word readers get to a stage where they must guess - they are guessing based on a number of things:

1. grammar - does this make sense and does it agree with my in built grammar and language knowledge (esp in first language readers)
2. Does it follow the phonics rules I know - even sight readers often do look at first letters and possibly even last letters (there is that passage that people read when all the words are spelt wrong but they still manage to get meaning from it - I think only the first and last letter are correctly spelt)
3. When sounding out - have I heard a word that COULD fit the phonics rules (broom with a short or long oo sound - I can only know this if I know the word) so it is an auditory vocabulary issue.
4. Context - If I write: The cowboy rode his h____. No one will suspect the word is hat or happy. If I write: The cowboy rode his h_______ horse then you would be left guessing based on previous context - it could be happy, horrible, hurting and many more, but perhaps the passage before was all about how mean the horse was and then horrible would make more sense.

When a child uses ALL the different techniques it will result in better reading with more accuracy - they should mentally be able to use ALL of them to check themselves: I think that word is "happy" - it makes sense, it is phonetically correct, it agrees with my grammar (I need an adjective there and happy would fit) and it sounds like a word I have heard before, not like some nonsense. Using all techniques also encourages comprehension.

[Tanikit]

My DD has finished book 10a of Ladybird and is now reading Peter's Good Idea.

[linzy]

My almost 6 year old is reading the Wizard of Oz trilogy. He is on book two now. He's read almost all of the Andrew Lange Fairy books. For Sciency type reading he is also reading the Burgess Bird and animal books.

My 2 year old is mainly reading bob books, but is really starting to take off with fluency.

[cliffwill88]

My daughter Chloe is 3 years old now, turning 4.. her favorite is Little red riding hood,..other than that.. hmm, other story of Princesses and Barbie.. she enjoys watching the illustrations while her mum or I is reading the story.. It has been our everyday routine to read to her that book.. 

[Skylark]

We are going through Russian classical poetry now with E (3 yo) and Russian folk stories with A (1.5 yo) -- it's been a fun discovery journey.

Right now we just reading and re-telling stories, talking about them, eventually we want to start reciting some poetry pieces

[Tanikit]

We are now reading ordinary picture books: How did you make that web; Amanda's butterfly;
Paper Bears and the Golden Key; and she read Good morning, Good night to her sister independently.

Skylark - reciting poetry sounds like a good idea. I think I need to get my DD learning some things off by heart too.

[Mandabplus3]

All three of my kids are currently OBSESSED with the magic school bus series. ( scholstic)  The books thankfully come in two different levels ( at least) so my oldest reads the novels and my middle reads the story books and my youngest helps me read the story books. This week it seems to be skeletons and more bees! I think it's time we went to see the bee hive again.
They watch the movies endlessly ( love YouTube!) and can all explain light spectrum and the rainbow, digestion, beehives, rain forests, wind.....amazing learning in them. Anyway if you haunt tried them yet, do!

[Tanikit]

She's reading more books independently now though still books well below her reading level and much shorter than the ones we read together:

The Bravest Dog Ever: The true story of Balto
Nate the Great (this is also below her reading level, so she flew through it but she enjoys having some easy reading)
A Puppy for Annie

[Eliana]

My 2.5 year old loves her Pete The Cat books by Eric Litwin. Can't get enough of them. She also loves the Little Quack books.

[Korrale4kq]

James is almost 2.5. I read to him about an hour a day. He is a sight word reader, (phonics  isn't completely  clicking yet) and his reading ability is higher than his speech. He is/was speech delayed and is improving rapidly. He can read mostly words, and sentences up to 3 words. Beyond that and he is overwhelmed.

I read to him.

Lots of Little Golden Books. The collections are very good value. Animal Tales, Farm Tales, Friendly Tales etc... We read the whole collection in one sitting.

Anything by Iza Trapaini. I caught him the other day reading "resting in the sun". It is the last line of the Itsy Bitsy Spider.

The Usborne Stories for Girls (Boys)  He says he likes the pink book better than the blue book. Trying to locate affordable versions of the Usborne Classic stories for Girls (Boys)

The Big Blue Beginner Book... He just started to like this book recently.

And the most surprising is an old set of encyclopedias for children initially printed in the '70s. Sure, the content is a bit dated. But they read well and learning about the concept of pollution is the same to him right now. All he got from it right now was "yucky air".

Stuart Murphy's Math Start Series level 1 series. We are using them for math. They cover a lot of basic concepts. Sorting, patterns, amount, skip counting and more.  Sadly I bought them, and he is surpassing them too quickly I might need to go to level 2.


James now "reads" a book to me before nap and night time. Most are one word concept books, but he is using them to improve his speech mostly.  He also has been slogging through the Preschool Prep  Sight word readers and a few other miscellaneous High Frequecny readers that I mostly write myself.

[Tanikit]

She's now reading books in the car anytime we go anywhere - since these books are independent reading (I cannot help her at all since I am driving) I choose books well below her level and pack the car with them - the 16 month old loves diving into them too and the two of them spend any car trips reading and "reading." Its cute to watch.

These are the ones we have been reading together:

Wombat goes Walkabout
Meet the Molesons
Rumplestiltskin

[LDSMom]

If anyone's interested, we put out an ebook this weekend thats phonics based - its the first in what hopefully will be a series. It's free today if anyone's interested and is .99 normally. http://www.amazon.com/Penny-early-reader-phonics-ebook/dp/B0087B5OQY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1340048603&sr=1-1&keywords=penny+and+jack - Please let me know if you have any opinions on the font size (does it need to be bigger) or if I should have a version with font on a different page without the picture.

My son is reading everything in sight - its amazing how quickly they take off. I think he's at a second grade level and we started with phonics 1 yr ago using DadDude's cards. My son is 4, and he's started reading in Spanish now too. Very exciting!

[Mandabplus3]

Congratulations! LDSmom. We downloaded it and read it strait away. My son loved it! He had a giggle and even read me some of the words.
That boy is starting to drive me nuts! He knows so many more words than he will actually read to me! I keep catching him out. He will shout out a word from a utube clip, or read a word on TV, if I am too slow reading the page he will read it ahead of me. He just won't do it on demand yet   
I think the font size is great ( we were using an iPad), I reckon some of the mums with younger kids will want words and pictures separate. I suppose if you are using an iPad you could increase the word size by zooming in and thus the picture would be gone from site
Anyway can't wait til the next one is ready

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