All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits

[Serendipity]

http://www.kii-oo.com also has Usborne readers!

[Busymom]

If I want to buy some books from UK like the UK Bookpeople, which is the cheapest way to ship to Singapore?

[piglet and calf]

Hi all,


just want to say thanks to everyone here. I learn so much from this thread. Thanks for introducing all the great books and where to buy them.

I have been reading to my 2 kids since they were babies. At times, we can read the same book up to 10 times each session. For me, I will read to them as long as they take a book and ask me to read. I must say my effort pays off when my gal starts reading at 3.5years old on her own. She struggles alittle at first, but now she is willing to read to me when i ask her to.

cant wait to get those books introduced here…thanks

[Musings]

Hi need some help.


Does anyone know where to buy the Magic Tree House series of books in Spore? I am specifically looking at the non fiction books in the series - Fact Trackers.

Thanks!

[Blissedsher]

Dear parents , could someone enlighten me on this ? My gal is 2.5 years and enjoys me reading to her . Sometimes if she enjoys the book we can read it nightly . But after once or two times of reading she will repeat after me the parts she remember . Eventually she can " read " the whole book , but I think she is just memorizing it . Question is how do I teach her to read instead of memorizing ?

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi,


Continue reading to your child by pointing each word.

Show the child 2-3 word cards for recognition of words each week.Change and revise .

This was what i did.

[serenasgreenhouse]

Musings:

Hi need some help.


Does anyone know where to buy the Magic Tree House series of books in Spore? I am specifically looking at the non fiction books in the series - Fact Trackers.

Thanks!

Hi, Musings. You could buy the series from this website, http://www.bookdepository.com/There are no shipping charges. An example of a book on mummies costs $7.31.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Mummies-Pyramids-Mary-Pope-Osborne/9780375802980



Personally, I think this is a GREAT series.

[hquek]

Musings:

Hi need some help.


Does anyone know where to buy the Magic Tree House series of books in Spore? I am specifically looking at the non fiction books in the series - Fact Trackers.

Thanks!

Hi musings, the library does have them (and I see it on the shelves a lot).

If you want to buy, I did see a couple of titles at Page one still when I went last Sunday. they are having 50% off until 19 Feb (that's when they close officially). Not sure if you want to go check it out. I saw the books at the Children's english books section.

[micollh]

can i ask ? DD K1 teacher taught them to say "eh" for A but in leap frog and starfall.com it’s pronounce at "ah"… "eh" is very near to E sound… which is correct? DD teacher said the song " Ant on the apple, ah ah ah" is wrong… she said if you say A sound is "ah" how do you promounce ANT ? it’s "eh" n "teh"… ANT… can advise? cos this has confuse my DD she come back telling me teach said A is not "ah" but "eh" but "eh" is for E…

[Musings]

Everyone, thanks for the suggestions on where to find the Magic Tree House books.


I have discovered amongst the local bookstores, Kinokuniya carries the books.

But I have been buying online from Bookdepository.com. It’s much cheaper and has free shipping to Singapore.

I highly recommend the Magic Tree House books as a transition from picture books to chapter books. Thus far, my DS in P1 has been hooked on the books and finishes 1 book (average length of 70 pages) in one day.

The best part is the series introduces kids to wide ranging subject matters such as history of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient China, ancient Japan etc. The non fiction titles provide the historical facts and background of the story in the fiction titles which widens the kids’ general knowledge.

I have always found our primary school kids are not exposed to a breadth of general knowledge beyond English, Maths and Science unlike Western school curriculum which places equal emphasis on World History, Art, Geography etc from a young age. So I find the Magic Tree House series is a very useful tool to expose kids to these things!