All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits

[jedamum]

jedamum:

Title: Books for 3-6 years old


Any good books for recommendation according to agegroups?
I'm currently interested in 2 yr olds and 6 yr olds category.
Plus..anybody have any idea what are the term for the following 2 types of books?
1. Books where there are different adventures depending on which choice you choose in which scenerio...eg Go to Pg 3 if you turn left, Go to Pg 5 if you turn right... this type of books.
2. Books where there is a 'magnifying glass' made of a colour translucent sheet. you placed over the book to look for hidden objects.

TIA.

Haha...didn't know that this thread was 'started' by me in 2008 when ds1 was in K2! Now he is in P3 and still pretty lukewarm to reading fiction. He likes to exchange his books with his classmates and read snippets of stories here and there. He prefers to read my (library) copy of Foxtrot instead of his novel!
Now that my ds2 is in K1, I am much wiser. With more time at hand to visit the library, ds2 benefited a lot because he gets to read everyday because I 'replenish' the (library) books on alternate days (almost). Because his attention is short, I choose books that has rhymes, and has short sentences so that we can read together. I never buy books again because he never re-reads his books (like ds1). he will even 'nag' at me if i accidentally borrow books that he had actually read before (so many books that i have lost track). Surrounding him with printed materials and cutting back on tv is one of the best decisions made in terms of getting him to like books. However, we paid the price as ds2 now needs glasses .
Sorry to OT!

[smurf]

Any idea how to teach or guide a child when the child recognise and read words, even know the meaning of words. But when asked to read a passage or a page from a chapter book, he doesn't understand the story line. :?

[jedamum]

smurf:

Any idea how to teach or guide a child when the child recognise and read words, even know the meaning of words. But when asked to read a passage or a page from a chapter book, he doesn't understand the story line. :?

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haha...
reminds me of my ds1 when he was in the trying to read stage (K2) and still happening now for his chinese! i now choose books that are a notch lower his standards so that he can at least enjoy what he is reading without being overwhelmed.
have to wait for Tamarind and others to share how they over come this.

anyway, I cut and paste tamarind's post from another thread:-

tamarind:

Hi hot,
You can try to let your boy read picture books first, choose funny ones like Curious George and Lafcadio the lion who shot back. These books have pictures on every page which are important in helping kids to understand the story. Then slowly move on to chapter books. I don't pause at every page to explain the meaning, unless my kids ask me questions. They read lots of picture books, so when they read long English novels without pictures, they can understand the story without explanation.

my ds2 (in K1) is only reading books with lots of pictures (and because he seldom re-reads them, i gonna visit the library many times a week)
. he will usually flip through the pictures and then 'decide' if he wants to read it 'in his brain' or wait for me to read t ohim. when i read them, he can link the pictures to the books. i guess in a way, picture books teach preschoolers how to imagine and link words to pictures so when they move onto stories without pictures, they will be able to imagine the story as they read.

[laughingcat]

smurf:

Any idea how to teach or guide a child when the child recognise and read words, even know the meaning of words. But when asked to read a passage or a page from a chapter book, he doesn't understand the story line. :?

Initially my K1 boy was like that. What I will do is, I will re-read the passage with my own expression and along the way I will explain to him what it means.

I will note down the words (be it English and Chinese) and then use it in our conversation for 1 week. Once he understood it, I will just let it pass.

Sometime he will use his new-found word in his own conversation as well. So that allows me to know how much he understood its meaning.

For instance the word \"ought\". I will explain to him that it is the same meaning as \"must\" and \"should\". So instead of me using the word \"must\" in our everyday conversation, I will use \"ought\" instead.

So one fine day when my K1 boy was \"lecturing\" his younger brother, I heard him used the word \"ought\". That is when I knew he knows what it means.

[sean wife]

Hi,


Like to have some advice on how to transition to simple chapter books from picture books. My kids are going to 4 in Sep, and I am thinking of introducing some simple chapter books to them. So far, they have read many picture books from the library, but they don’t like those which are too wordy too. If they see just a few sentences on each page, they are willing to read, but if they see whole big paragraph, they will wait for me to read first, then I will leave a small part for them to read. If I keep quiet and wait for them to start, sometimes they lose the interest and wander off…especially my elder twin, so it’s really not easy to find the balance between sustaining the interest and insisting that they read everything…They enjoy funny and humorous plots though.

1)\tAny recommendations on the simplest chapter books to start off with? I am thinking of those chapter books with still some illustrations. So far, the only ‘chapter books’ they have are the Mercy Watson books. They like them because the story plot is quite funny.
2)\tFor most chapter books, it will be quite impossible to finish off in one seating right? So does it mean we read with them or they read out few pages each day and we continue another day? How to know that they can remember the whole plot then?
3)\tDo we move on to another book only after we have finished one chapter book?

Thanks.

[sleepy]

deardear07:

Hi mummies,what r ur kids reading for k2? And p1?


Those strong in english tend to be reading chapter books by 5-6 already?

My kids like E.B.White, Kate DiCamillo and Enid Blyton books at that age.

[sleepy]

jedamum:

Haha...didn't know that this thread was 'started' by me in 2008 when ds1 was in K2! Now he is in P3

See how time flies :lol:

[phtthp]

can read Enid blyton books - targeted at K1 / K2 level, like:-


a) The Careless Kitten
b) The Tale of Flop and Whiskers
c) The Mouse and the Squirrel
d) The Tale of Cluck and Clopper
e) He wouldn’t go to sleep
f) ButterCup and the Moon
g) Reynard’s wonderful plan
h) The Newspaper Dog

they are sold at ElmTree(Tampines).
you may choose to buy either individual book at $3.90 per copy, OR 1 big storybook costs $7 - but inside contain 3 stories, from the above listing.

[hquek]

sean wife:

Hi,


Like to have some advice on how to transition to simple chapter books from picture books. My kids are going to 4 in Sep, and I am thinking of introducing some simple chapter books to them. So far, they have read many picture books from the library, but they don’t like those which are too wordy too. If they see just a few sentences on each page, they are willing to read, but if they see whole big paragraph, they will wait for me to read first, then I will leave a small part for them to read. If I keep quiet and wait for them to start, sometimes they lose the interest and wander off…especially my elder twin, so it’s really not easy to find the balance between sustaining the interest and insisting that they read everything....They enjoy funny and humorous plots though.

1)\tAny recommendations on the simplest chapter books to start off with? I am thinking of those chapter books with still some illustrations. So far, the only ‘chapter books’ they have are the Mercy Watson books. They like them because the story plot is quite funny.
2)\tFor most chapter books, it will be quite impossible to finish off in one seating right? So does it mean we read with them or they read out few pages each day and we continue another day? How to know that they can remember the whole plot then?
3)\tDo we move on to another book only after we have finished one chapter book?

Thanks.

Hi Sean wife, I started reading chapter by chapter - stories by Dorothy Edwards (my naughty little sister), AA Milne (Winnie the pooh), Paddington Bear (can't recall author). Each chapter is a story in itself and is fairly humorous. You may want to check out Lois Lowry (her Gooney Bird Greene is pretty funny and kind of teaches the child about writing, she has a 'Sam' series about a little boy and his exploits); and Kaye Umansky (The Jealous Giant, Stepsisters' Story).

Then I went on the series type like Magic Treehouse, Shoo Rayner (he has a wide variety of series that's quite simple and action packed at the same time - Monster Boy, The Just So Stories), and Terry Deary (his are mainly fiction set in real historical situations).

I got all these from our NLB - so no cost, except transport.

On reading, I first started to read to DS1 - 1 chapter a night. Slowly I got lazy and he got antsy (want to find out what's the next story), he started picking up the book by himself and now he's onto independent reading. There were times when he wanted to pull back - too many words. So I tried to find those picture type chapter books instead to tide over that period.

[micollh]

just want to ask, should i get lady bird peter and jane series to start to teach my DD (4 in Sep) to read. she knows the phonics of the letters already. how many books altogether, anyone got the series already? can share?


she is reading lady bird story books (stage 1/2/3) as night time story. but she never been asked to read yet.