Reading 3 year old wanting more of a challenge

apples1

The books from our daughter's bookcase that we have read to her - she now reads herself. Could you not just use the books you already have?

bylromarha

ShockingPink wrote: »

Sorry I did think after I'd posted that you're probably not working at the mo.

i didn't make it clear-no worries:D

Carmina_Piranha_3

the gobbolino book was reprinted a few years ago. my son had an audio cassette version too, but i can't find it online. gobbolino was my favourite from the storyteller series - i even named my first rabbit gobbolino :rotfl:

there are some sad bits in the book, nobody wants him

ann0024

Welshlassie wrote: »

You sound like you have done a wondeful job with your DS. My DS is 10 months old and i have been reading to him since he was 4 months old, as I really want him to have a love of books as I do. He sppears to be incredibly bright (well as far as you can tell at that age) and so I want to ensure that he is stimulated as much as possible. We have been signing with him from birth, and although he definately recognises the signs and associated words he hasn't signed back as yet.

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

Currently I read a range of disney stories to my DS which I collected as a teenager specifically for my children when they arrived. I am really enjoying reading them to him now.

Best of luck finding more books for him, I'm making a list of those mentioned for when my DS gets to that point.

Find our more about Jolly Phonics from this site.

malli_2

Rachie_B wrote: »

agree with all the above

my eldest son now 12, was reading at age 2.5 ( signage,food labels etc ,then at 3 when starting nursery ,books)
and @ age 5 had the reading age of 11

he LOVED the percy park keeper and mr men books
and the Julia donaldson books are a fave with his little brother

Wow!! reading age 11 when only 5!!!

My DD who turned 5 last month is on stage 10 in ORT and her teacher(private school) told me she is ahead of everyone in her class. How do you know the reading age, do you buy books at each stage and see if they read it or is it the level they are at school? Thanks.

fernliebee

Great to hear of little ones reading! I think it's a love of books that encourages this, as if they genuinely love something children can do anything!! Amazing creatures that they are

I could read at 3 and my mum also had problems finding things for me to read, and also in getting the school to let me read suitable books. I used to love a series of books called "stories for 4 year olds, 5 year olds etc. They are designed to be read to children but I liked reading them myself. Not even sure if they still do these but they are age appropriate and a bit of a challenge. I also used to love reading the 6 year old books when I was 5
Also another vote for Dr. Seuss!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=stories+for+3+year+olds&x=0&y=0

Lunar_Eclipse

malli wrote: »

Wow!! reading age 11 when only 5!!!

My DD who turned 5 last month is on stage 10 in ORT and her teacher(private school) told me she is ahead of everyone in her class. How do you know the reading age, do you buy books at each stage and see if they read it or is it the level they are at school? Thanks.

A lot of schools test them and thus assign them with a 'reading age', based on national (average) benchmarks.

The most able readers in my daughter's classes finished Reception at around Level 11 of the ORT, which I think is the level for an average 7 year old in the UK (year 2). However, if they only/mainly read books from the ORT scheme, they advance much quicker than reading a variety of books - which is not the same as being better at reading if you understand me. ORT are 'easy' to read. Children start to predict the way they are written as they know the characters etc. Thus our school/s used several schemes simultaneously.

Both my children finished, or will finish as is the case with the youngest, the ORT by the end of Year 2 (level 15/16). Your daughter will probably be reading things like Roald Dahl next year.

bylromarha

Update on my little boy:

In Reception, currently on Stage 9 ORT, reading age of 8.5 years. Had a whistle stop tour through Biff and Chip, which was great. School are sending him to year 2 once a week for their guided reading session.

Cannot get him to eat/sleep/dress due to reading any words around him taking priority. He has a real love of reading which is great to see in such a young 'un.

The Horrid Henry I read was horrid and Henry got away with it! So no Horrid Henry until he's matured a bit and can understand subtleties of humour. He's currently loving the Faraway Tree (as am I) and OH has insisted he reads The Hobbit next. DS is excited about the thought of more dragons and goblins, as is OH.

Liney-my mum binned all my Storyteller stuff! BOOOO!!!!!! No Gobolino and the creepy Chinese pig farm for DS (or me!)

Malli-you can assess a childs reading age using a test. Salford is a common one that schools use. It's reading sentences, counting mistakes and following the instructions to calculate the child's reading age. The school should have a Salford or something similar they use, so I'd ask your teacher for more info.

LittleTinker

bylromarha wrote: »

Hi all

My 3 year old is a fluent reader. He's bored of his picture books and wants something he can use his bookmark in!

My concern is that I don't give him books which are scary for his actual age. I want to give him literature which is fun for him to read and not give him nightmares.

So I'm looking for titles of books that are friendly with their concepts, and are relatively easy to read and understand.

Thinking along the lines of the Faraway tree...Roald Dahl a bit too dark at this age IMO...any other titles you can suggest I pick up in the library?

thanks

Fluent reader who is bored of picture books?

Fluent in pictures then?

I dont understand. Is she fluent in recognising what each picture is so therefore you think she can read the words?

And I have a very very very very very old copy of Gobbolino the Witches Cat on my bookcase :-))

malli_2

:rolleyes:

bylromarha wrote: »

Update on my little boy:

In Reception, currently on Stage 9 ORT, reading age of 8.5 years. Had a whistle stop tour through Biff and Chip, which was great. School are sending him to year 2 once a week for their guided reading session.

Cannot get him to eat/sleep/dress due to reading any words around him taking priority. He has a real love of reading which is great to see in such a young 'un.

My daughter said that her head teacher (when her class teacher was off sick last week) sent her with her reading book to Year 2 class. I couldn't understand why at that time.

Although she is a fluent reader in stage 10 ORT in Reception, we have to cajole her to sit to read she just wants to play . Apart from her reading book, we don't even read anything else. Also she hates to be different, she wants book with few words like rest of her friends:rolleyes: Just to please her, the teacher kindly sends an extra little book with few words

Do you friendly folks do any ICT things with kids, please?? I'm looking for ICT ideas. Yesterday I taught her to use the keyboard, showed the bits like backspace, shift, enter key etc. While I was upstairs she had typed a small essay about our trip to Disneyland.:p Any kids friendly software apart from games out there? Thanks.