All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits

[hquek]

hi XEK3, mine are based on the likes/dislikes of 2 boys - the elder one tends to be more into grosser stuff (slime squad that type of series).


if your girl is into more dainty stuff, you may want to go for those magic pony series types of books. i see them all over the place in the JS section. Sorry, we’ve never read these and hence I can’t make any proper recommendation.

oh, you may want to look for this series of books by Lois Lowry…it’s called Gooney Bird Green (not sure if my spelling is off). About a little girl with her idiosyncracies and independent ways in class. very good and fun read and there is some introduction to english words and way of writing. Very fun read altogether.

[XEK3]

Hi hquek, thanks…the series books by Lois Lowry sounds interesting. Will keep a look out for it.


Your recommendation for the boy’s reader is helpful as it give me an idea for what to look out for my boy.

BTW, sounds silly to ask but what does JP section and JS section stand for?

[hquek]

that’s a good question, it took me a while to learn this also. Library classifies kids books into the following:


JP is for picture books (not so many words, loads of pictures and colours).
JS is for early chapter books and books with some pictures in them.
J is for the older young kids - more pages, little/no pictures.

oh yah, oh yah, that reminds me of another author that’s pretty good also. Terry Deary. he wrote the horrible history series. I quite enjoyed his short chapter books set in historical (eg egyptian/roman times), and I think he did write some stories based on greek mythology. May not appeal to trendy youngsters (I’m partial towards history).

[Busymom]

XEK3:

Hi all, do you have any recommendation for good and interesting books for K2 girl?


Browsing through the previous thread, it seems most kids are able to handle chapter books by the age of 6-7. My girls is still reading pictures books. Is there any good interesting entry level chapter books which will is suitable to introduce to her? And where can I buy them?

Thank you.

My DD was very hooked on the Magic Tree House series (and evil me used those books to get her to do something that was very mundane). It has interesting storyline and at the same time, imparts general knowledge.

If your girl likes fairies, another series is the Rainbow Fairies series.

Actually, to move from picture books to chapter books, it's good to start off with certain readers such as Step into Reading and Hello Readers. There are also some very thin chapter books with coloured pictures. May attract girls to want to read them.

Certain titles from Roald Dahl are good too (and extemely funny):
- The Enormous Crocodile
- The Magic Finger
- Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

[chrismei]

Busymom:

XEK3:

Hi all, do you have any recommendation for good and interesting books for K2 girl?


Browsing through the previous thread, it seems most kids are able to handle chapter books by the age of 6-7. My girls is still reading pictures books. Is there any good interesting entry level chapter books which will is suitable to introduce to her? And where can I buy them?

Thank you.

My DD was very hooked on the Magic Tree House series (and evil me used those books to get her to do something that was very mundane). It has interesting storyline and at the same time, imparts general knowledge.

If your girl likes fairies, another series is the Rainbow Fairies series.

Actually, to move from picture books to chapter books, it's good to start off with certain readers such as Step into Reading and Hello Readers. There are also some very thin chapter books with coloured pictures. May attract girls to want to read them.

Certain titles from Roald Dahl are good too (and extemely funny):
- The Enormous Crocodile
- The Magic Finger
- Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Does ur gal has problem understanding the story? There are many new words and i have to explain the story to let her understand better.

[Busymom]

chrismei:

Does ur gal has problem understanding the story? There are many new words and i have to explain the story to let her understand better.

Not really. They have to be ready to read these books. Heard before that if there are more than a certain number of words that they can't understand in a page (sorry, can't remember what it is but have an impression that it is 13 or so...), then the book is too difficult for them.

Try The Enormous Crocodile. It is a very thin book and therefore less intimidating, plus there are nice coloured illustrations on the pages.

[AceTutors123]

Busymom:

chrismei:

Does ur gal has problem understanding the story? There are many new words and i have to explain the story to let her understand better.

Not really. They have to be ready to read these books. Heard before that if there are more than a certain number of words that they can't understand in a page (sorry, can't remember what it is but have an impression that it is 13 or so...), then the book is too difficult for them.

Try The Enormous Crocodile. It is a very thin book and therefore less intimidating, plus there are nice coloured illustrations on the pages.

I read from MOE's new English syllabus guide that a child's reading fluency will be disrupted if he cannot understand more than 90% of the words in the reading material. It's best to assign reading material for which the child knows about 95% of the words. Pretty interesting stuff.

[XEK3]

Thanks Hquek for the explanation....I usually just go straight to the kids department without really look at how they segregate the books.... :oops:

Busymom:

My DD was very hooked on the Magic Tree House series (and evil me used those books to get her to do something that was very mundane). It has interesting storyline and at the same time, imparts general knowledge.

If your girl likes fairies, another series is the Rainbow Fairies series.

Actually, to move from picture books to chapter books, it's good to start off with certain readers such as Step into Reading and Hello Readers. There are also some very thin chapter books with coloured pictures. May attract girls to want to read them.

Certain titles from Roald Dahl are good too (and extemely funny):
- The Enormous Crocodile
- The Magic Finger
- Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

I will try you the books as you have suggested. They sounds interesting. Yah, i do have the concern that there are many words which my gal do not understand. Have to probabaly read together with her .....(sounds like i will ended reading to her... )....

Can all these books be easily found in Library? Otherwise which bookstore carry these books where i can go and buy?

[Imami]

I have a strange feeling that my child is reading far better than I know… There are two types of books at home - those simple one’s that he reads on his own and those chapter books more appropriate for primary school kids. Because his proficiency is not there yet (I thought so) and yet he prefers more sophisticated story lines, I read those chapter books to him. The magic tree house and the geronimo Stilton series are some of those I am reading to him.


Recently, I found him "reading" some chapter books quietly. He can’t be looking at just the ten or so pictures for one hour. And he is flipping page by page. But when I asked him, he said he could not read those books as they were to difficult for him.

[Busymom]

XEK3:

I will try you the books as you have suggested. They sounds interesting. Yah, i do have the concern that there are many words which my gal do not understand. Have to probabaly read together with her .....(sounds like i will ended reading to her... )....

Can all these books be easily found in Library? Otherwise which bookstore carry these books where i can go and buy?

Yes, all these books can be found in the library or you could buy them from places like Popular, MPH, Times, etc. Not too sure about Step into Reading or Hello Readers (we bought ours from ebay). Giving you a link for you to see how they look like.

http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/books/step/books/books_step3/

Also, giving you a link of a few thin chapter books:

The Enormous Crocodile:
http://www.amazon.com/Enormous-Crocodile-Roald-Dahl/dp/0142414530/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347013159&sr=1-1&keywords=the+enormous+crocodile#reader_0142414530

The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch
http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Packed-Lunch-Colour-Reader/dp/055256480X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347013334&sr=1-1&keywords=packed+lunch+for+dinosaurs+jacqueline+wilson