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Seeking Picture Book Recommendations: What's Your Favourite?
I loved reading the responses to date. All suggestions remind me of wonderful times. But my favorite times were reading Beatrix Potter books over and over ...
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- Hello! My boys LOVE books and, like yours, drink in the words. They love repetition, so that they can "read along" or add in the words that I leave out. So FUN and edu...
- I second the vote for Sandra Boynton books! My kids (and I) LOVED her books, especially "Not the Hippopotamus" and "Moo, Baa, La, La, La". Any Dr. Seuss is also a mu...
- Anything by Eric Carle is wonderful we also like Goodnight Moon, Counting Kisses, Goodnight Gorilla, and my older son started enjoying dr. Seus books around the age of 3.
Good Books/Authors
Good Books/Authors. Hi Ladies, I am a teacher and I like to catch up on my reading over the summer months, as much as I can with a 15 month old by my side. ...
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- I'm reading James Patterson's Sundays at Tiffany's and am enjoying it. James Patterson is nice to read with a little one because his chapters are a couple of pages lon...
- Anything by Jane Green or Jennifer Weiner. I also like the Stephanie Plum mysteries by Janet Evanovich (One for the Money is the first one).
- Like another poster mentioned, the book "Water for Elephants" is an AWESOME book!! A few others that I recently read that were great: "Lottery" by Patricia Woo...
Starting Alphabet Recognition and Reading
Do read and keep reading books he likes and read for your self around him. He will get interested, promise!!! 1 mom found this helpful. Helpful? ...
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- first--don't rush. My first daughter could have cared less and didn't know the entire alphabet when she started kindergarden :0--fast forward to today, she is in fourt...
- Both of my girls starting at about age 2 started playing on the website www.starfall.com. Some kids need more stimulation, but it has been great for my kids. They ar...
- There is a leap frog magnetic alphabet set that when they put the letter on the thing that comes with it, the thing will play music and tell them what letter and what ...
Book Recommendations
6 Jun 2009 ... Book Recommendations - Keller, TX. I am in need of reading material. Everytime I go to a bookstore I get so overwhelmed and could easily ...
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- Terry Brooks is a really good author. He might fit with your style if you liked the Twilight series.
- I love books by Jodi Picoult. My favorite is My Sister's Keeper....couldn't put it down!
- I like Beth Moore, any type of self-help type book, Love and Logic parenting books, Christian books-parenting and self help type books. In addition, I like Gavin ...
4Th Grade Chapter Books?
My daughter is finishing 2nd grade this year but is reading at a 4.5 level. She is reading Magic Treehouse books but is bored with them. ...
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- Just like your other post.... Tale of Desperaux was one of my daughter's favorite books at that age but... she loved "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" even bet...
- Hi i am not sure what grade level they are but we loved the edge chronicles a wrinkle in time the narnia series strawberry girl are just some we enjoyed maybe they wil...
- I think it's more about finding books that interest them than about grade-level per se. My son is 8 and still enjoying Junie B. although he also reads Roald Dahl - he ...
Reading Suggestions for a 15 Year Old
I am looking for some books to suggest to my 15 year old sister to read. She claims she hates reading, but she has never really tried reading a book for fun ...
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- When I was about that age I went throught the same thing and I had the typical 15 year old attitude. My mom got me the book "A Child Called IT" by David J Pelzer, It ...
- It all depends on her interests, but I absolutely love the shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. She also has 2 other book that aren't part of the series but are awes...
- This may be too obvious, but what about the Harry Potter books. If you think she is too old, I'm 41 and I am dying to read the new one.
What Is the Best Way to Teach Reading?
You start reading the book to her and point to each word as you read (read pretty slowly so she can keep up with your finger). When you get to the word I in ...
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- I just started with my son (he will be four) by getting him to sound out the letters, and writing words down on his light sketcher. I figure the books can be overwhel...
- When my son was little I took a page from the Blues Clues show and labeled eveything in my house that would stand still long enough to stick it on. The label included ...
- Another 'fun' way to get them started is on the website starfall.com This site begins with the alphabet, then the children move to creating word families. There are ...
Good Learn How to Read Books..
(Goal is not to overwhelm him and make him not enjoy reading. We adults enjoy reading books like Twilight and Harry Potter, etc that are middle school age ...
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- J., how much does your son already read? What is he interested in? That should be your guide for what books to get from the library. When my son was a young p...
- One of my son's favorite authors in first grade was Cynthia Rylant. She wrote the Henry and Mudge series as well as Poppleton books. Here is a link to a website abou...
- I don't really know the level your child is reading at, but I usually suggest rhyming books like Dr. Seuss collection and then move on to Clifford, Arthur and Franklin...
Summer Reading Program
(Which is why many parents HATE those book-reading contests for pizza. .... The books are there about whatever he likes and reading is the important part. ...
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- Sounds like your 8 year old has your number. He should read in the morning after breakfast. BEFORE he plays, watches tv, or anything else. Tell him if he wants to p...
- I am sorry this is late...I am on vacation and am just catching up. I do not understand why an eight year old child needs to read ANYTHING over the summer that he doe...
- It sounds to me like you already know the answer, but you're looking to see if other people think the same way you do. A number of distinguished authors on the subjec...
15 Month Old Reads Books Upside Down. Should I Be Concerend?
All kids look at books upside down. I dont think they understand fully that there is a right way on reading books. They just want to look at the pictures ...
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- That's a normal and natural stage of literacy development!!! No worries
- It is great that she is interested in books and it is normal for a child to look at books in various directions. Don't change the way she holds the book just let her ...
- She's too young for this to be of concern, it will be years before she understands that it is important for words to move top to bottom and left to right, etc. This i...
