All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits
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Hello caffelatte
Can describe a bit on The Number Devil?
The non-fiction books he reads is whatever that catches his interest at the moment and these are borrowed from the library.
I did a quick run through on Murderous Maths and found no love. So never introduce it to him. Although I can say that without any extra help, he is very good in math but not the exceptional case. Does your son loves math in order to enjoy reading Murderous Maths?
Never tried Horrible Science. National Georgraphic yes, but the magazine is mine. He asked me to read instead and explain. -
[quote]Books by Jeremy Strong (http://www.jeremystrong.com) [/quote]
This was a gift from dd's teacher. Both my kids don't appreciate the author's humor.
[quote]Junie B. Jones series (suitable for P1 - P3) [/quote]My daughter used to read this. She loves Junie's character.
[quote]I don't have the time or inclination to pre-read books (I have so many books I'm reading for myself at the same time! ), so I introduce children's books that are well-trodden by others and just cross my fingers that he takes to them.[/quote]Hey, same! But I need to read tons of work e-mails instead of nice leisurely books. Yeap, faster to introduce those well-trodden by others and since I know my kids well, easy enough to know which one they like or don't.
Yes, he loves Astrosaurs too. -
EN:
[quote]Books by Jeremy Strong (http://www.jeremystrong.com)
This was a gift from dd's teacher. Both my kids don't appreciate the author's humor.
[quote]Junie B. Jones series (suitable for P1 - P3) [/quote]My daughter used to read this. She loves Junie's character.
[quote]I don't have the time or inclination to pre-read books (I have so many books I'm reading for myself at the same time! ), so I introduce children's books that are well-trodden by others and just cross my fingers that he takes to them.[/quote]Hey, same! But I need to read tons of work e-mails instead of nice leisurely books. Yeap, faster to introduce those well-trodden by others and since I know my kids well, easy enough to know which one they like or don't.
Yes, he loves Astrosaurs too.[/quote]My son didn't like Jeremy Strong either.
En, if your son loves Astrosaurs, there's a good chance he'll like MM. It's the same thigh slapping, zany humour, judging from all that giggling when he reads. I think some of the concepts are easier than others, but probably a lot of it will be lost on him. But never mind - it's all in good fun. He'll stop when he really catch no ball. He says he now knows the secret to dividing primes - \"fractions!\". :rotflmao: He's wrong lah. But at least the books got him thinking. -
Blobbi,
okay set...if sequel comes out, update each other :celebrate:
The Alternative Story,
Thanks for your suggestions. I checked 39 Clues on Amazon. I think my son will love them.
EN,
click on the Amazon link I provided earlier, choose the red coloured cover and you can see some sample pages, editorial reviews and 73 customer reviews.
MM and HS - agree with Blobbi - it is the thigh slapping, zany humour that keep the boys hooked. My son is not exceptional in Maths either but he just loves MM. The fonts are small and I am worried about his eye-sight so I often remind him to stop stop stop and take eye breaks but he will be begging just 1 more page !
He picked up concepts like square roots, prime, infinity etc
I usually buy books online as it takes a long time to plough through bookstores to find books that I am looking for. I found 39 Clues on Kinokuniya web but only few titles left, no stock for books 1,2,3. Since this is a scholastic book, I checked scholastic website. They have the first few books in stock and now going for £1.99 each. I think if can share shipping with anyone ordering the mega pack, it will be quite a good deal. -
Blobbi:
My son didn't like Jeremy Strong either.EN:
[quote]Books by Jeremy Strong (http://www.jeremystrong.com)
This was a gift from dd's teacher. Both my kids don't appreciate the author's humor.
[/quote]How old are your kids? My students (mid abilities) in P4-6 enjoyed the books alot, especially \"The Hundred Mile Per Hour Dog\" and it's sequels. -
Yes, my son also didn’t like Jeremy Strong books.
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Hello everyone
Thank you for the follow-on replies to my thread.
For your information, we live in the UK, and my son is in Year 2. Year 2 in the UK is the equivalent of your P1 (as the age of his cohort is 6-7 years).
We use Singapore P1 and P2 assessment books for him, as they are very, very challenging!!!
I have taken a tip from Tamarind and purchased books that interest DS; I have got him Dr Who and Horrid Henry - for Christmas. Hopefully, these will help him.
Here in the UK he has a reading age of 11; I guess in Singapore where your standards are higher his reading age may be considered a little less than 11 - maybe 9ish!!
I have found some further tips that may be of use:
1. Photocopy a page of a story. Cut out the paragraphs and jumble them. Ask your child to read them and try to arrange them in logical and sequential order. This may trigger your child to consider the logical flow of a story.
2. Find some short stories online. Copy/paste to Microsoft Word and add sentences that may be out of context; it may result in a child deducing that some sentences may be incongruent with the gist and pace of the narrative.
3. When asking your child to explain what he has \"understood\", in the passage, ask the child what happened. Use the pneumonic \"SAR\". It's as good as any other approach!!!
S - Situation - what was the situation?
A - Action What was the action?
R - Result - What was the result?
4. Undertake both MCQ and open-ended comprehension work; start with small passages - do things in \"bite-sized\" chunks. -
Hi EN,
You can get 39 clues from most bookstores-Borders, Popular etc. From Amazon, you can get puzzles and games related to 39 clues.
Btw, you could just address me as TAS-short form for The Alternative Story.:)
Have you tried Spiderwick Chronicles?
TAS -
Hi cafelatte,
The website you mentioned offers 39 clues for a very cheap price! It is usually about $19. Are you going to order? Because I am interested in getting one set as our centre needs more copies.
I wonder if you have tried Spiderwick or Simon Chapman’s Explorers Wanted? It’s good too.
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mrswongtuition:
Tks Mrs Wong. He's young. So yah, could be he couldn't get the gist of the jokes back then. He received it as an x'mas present last year from my friend. So who knows - he might pick it up again later.
How old are your kids? My students (mid abilities) in P4-6 enjoyed the books alot, especially \"The Hundred Mile Per Hour Dog\" and it's sequels.
TAS, tks for the recommendations. Do you have any non-mystery, non fantasy stuff to recommend? I thought the obvious answer would be classic books, but he doesn't seem to like the easier Classic Starts either.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=classic+starts&x=0&y=0 The actual version is way too difficult for him.
He tells me he likes mischievious boy inventors who get out of trouble with science and invention. Anything along these lines? TIA!!
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