Reading 3 year old wanting more of a challenge

bylromarha

Lillibet wrote: »

Give him Lord of the Rings, half of it's in Elvish & should be challange enough to keep him occupied for a while!

Sorry, couldn't resist, I'll get my coat.........

I'd have to prise it from my husbands cold dead fingers:rotfl:

bylromarha

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

I'm sure books are waaaaaaaay better (in terms of variety at least) than when I was a child!

That's the thing I need to know-what is there out there now which I would have missed as a child? And loads of great ideas on here which are extremely helpful, so thanks and more are welcome!

kimberley111

in w h smith you can buy the Oxford Reading Tree books which they have in schools,they are fun and bright coloured.i recommend these books,my kids love them.

bylromarha

Welshlassie wrote: »

You mentioned Jolly Phonics earlier, I was wondering what this was??.

I signed with DS, then DD. both understood from about 8 months, both started signing back around the year mark when they had enough control over their arms to get them to do what needed to be done. it's quite sweet at times the way they use the signing. They sign more, you say no, they sign more a little fiercer, you say no more again, they're literally clapping their hands with the pressure of sign shouting!

Jolly Phonics is a system a lot of schools have been using for a number of years to teach phonics. You say the sound and do an action at the same time. eg you mime playing a drum while saying d d d d d d (not dee, the letter name) Appeals to a broader range of children as they're doing something physical to help learn as well as speaking.

it's fab and I love it.:T

poppyolivia

Lillibet wrote: »

Give him Lord of the Rings, half of it's in Elvish & should be challange enough to keep him occupied for a while!

Sorry, couldn't resist, I'll get my coat.........

I'm getting my coat too, my 3 year old son is chewing the heads off his power rangers and showing me his bum all the time....he thinks books are things to chuck at me!!;)

Mimosa_Miminski

What about Topsy and Tim books? My 4 year old loves reading them, and also the Usbourne first experiences (about going to the dentist, new baby, moving house, etc, also ladybird fairytales (My 4 year old loves the enormous turnip, 3 billy goats gruff, and goldilocks), Usbourne apple tree farm series also have gentle content.

Savvy_Sue

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

I have two girls whose reading age is beyond their chronological age and had a big problem finding appropriate books at around the age of 6. There seems to be a big jump, especially if they aren't keen on Harry Potter ('too scary') or long books/classics along the Black Beauty and Pippi Longstocking lines. My eldest seemed to have a year (that's what it felt like) of not really reading anything well written but one set of fairy/magic kitten/horse books after another. She enjoyed them though which ultimately is all that matters.

DS2 felt that anything DS1 could read, he could read too! So he read CS Lewis's Narnia books at 7, because DS1 was reading them at 9. He then read Lord of the Rings at 9.

So, bylromarha, you have about 6 years to prise LotR from hubby's cold dead fingers. :rotfl:

Gingham_Ribbon

What about some non-fiction, bylromarha? Is he interested in dinosaurs or cars or trains or something that he'd like to learn more about independently?

We tried the Little House on the Prairie books with our 4 year old but he was a bit upset by the chapter on killing the pig. (Raising a veggie seems to go like that sometimes!) but maybe that wouldn't bother him? They're lovely stories. Maybe the long winter would be one to avoid for now though.

Your son is in a fantastic position for the future, provided he gets a confident, dedicated teacher when he goes to school.

bylromarha

He loves his "things that go" book.. Knows more about the space shuttle than I do-not hard though!

Went to the library today and he was a pain for the rest of the day as all he wanted to do was read his Percy books and Shrek books and the rest...he didn't know where to start or when to stop and detect his mother was getting frustrated at being ignored.

Horrid henry all out at the main city library-librarian told me they were extremely popular-will need to reserve one I think.

mrcow

bylromarha wrote: »

Horrid henry all out at the main city library-librarian told me they were extremely popular-will need to reserve one I think.

If he's liking Horrid Henry, then the Sprinters books are all good too. Not many pictures though. Also, something that my son reads all the time is the Beano - he has a stash of comic libraries from when my brother was a boy and you can pick tons of stuff like that up off of Ebay.

I think the trick is to just try stuff out. It works well for us.

My son is in year 1 and is reading The Hobbit at the moment.
I didn't think he'd be interested in it as it's a little different from his usual books and it's going to take a few days to read (he normally churns through a book in one go no problem), but he seems to be really enjoying it.

lol I may lend him my copy of LOTR next....or will that make him a nerd?