she reads 🙂
Hurry Up, Franklin (Franklin (Scholastic Paperback))
and
Oscar the Grouch’s Alphabet of Trash
Knew all those boxes of books were going to come in handy at some point 😉 She wanted to know why I wanted the titles, and I said I was blogging that she’d read them all by herself.
“Mummy, I had some help!”
Yes, she did ask me about 5 (we counted) different words from Franklin. 😀 I consider that to be a bit of a triumph. Apparently we prefer books with lots of bright pictures and fewer words on a page, so that’s what we’ll stick with for a while.
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The Drina books are on Fran’s shelf, but she hasn’t attempted them yet, so i’m not surrised the daunted Big! Those books look much more appealing anyway – Maddy isn’t close to being that independent yet.
No, not Drina. I bought her some red fox ballet chapter books, can’t think what they are called. Nice thin books, heroine is called Weezer I think. Ah yes, it’s these: Good Luck, Louisa! (Red Fox Ballet Books)
But when we got them, they don’t really do much in the way of colourful piccies, and I think that’s what she really misses.
Oh, and I thought Maddy *was* getting there with independent reading?
We’ve had the picture issue here too, Abbie’s only recently started being happy to read books without pictures. And Josiah definitely still needs them, there is something weird in his mindset that says ‘if the page is full of text I can’t read it’, never mind what the words actually say!
It’s as if there’s some process that goes on whereby they need the pictures to help them link the words to their imagination, until they get more fluent with their own reading that they can imagine the pictures at the same time that they’re actually reading the text on its own, iyswim – does that make any sense at all?
I think that makes some sense 🙂
I definitely think that fluency is part of the issue, I just was struggling with how you build that up without practising. But she appears to be happy to practise with these books now, so we may be making progress.
She’s very happy with herself today 😀
Hey, tell her it still counts and Good Job!
I did! I pointed out that she had asked me about 5 words and read several hundred…and she got all pink and self-conscious. It was ever so cute 😉
No, Maddy thinks she can’t read. She gets Fran to read things for her. In fact, she can recognise a lot of words remarkably well and string sentences together, but that isn’t reading, it’s words. You start reading when you are 7. Who am i to argue??? 😉