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- From: xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)
- Subject: Re: Teaching kids to read
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163735.27961@trentu.ca>
- Organization: Trent University, Ontario
- References: <dlhanson.32.727391690@nap.amoco.com> <1993Jan21.222945.6742@digi.lonestar.org> <TIGGER.93Jan26001538@satyr.Sylvan.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:37:35 GMT
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- In article <TIGGER.93Jan26001538@satyr.Sylvan.COM> tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan) writes:
- >So, what do you do if you have a child who WANTS to learn to read?
- Say, a child who throws a tantrum in a bookstore, yelling
- "teach me to read! teach me to READ!" :-) I know what you mean and
- there is no way we'll wait till she's seven. But I wouldn't have
- suggested it to her if she hadn't brought it up.
-
- >suggestions for a three year old with an active imagination?
-
- You can't go wrong if you get the Chinaberry catalogue. Lots of
- terrific books in there. Beth also loves all the Puddle Lane
- books, from the early reader stuff, which she is *just* starting
- to read herself at times (she's 3.5) to the much older stuff which
- we read to her. She also got SIX Thomas books for Xmas and is thrilled
- with them all. She has also just started "chapter books" -- right
- now we're reading Bedknob and Broomstick (yes, both singular, not
- how I remembered the title myself but there it is) one chapter a
- night and she loves it. That's supposed to be for eight year olds to
- read to themselves. She likes Noddy, though to be honest I don't (too
- sexist for me). Books from a series have the advantage of more story
- in each book, since they spend less time on telling you who everyone
- is at the start. And Beth plays imaginary games that involve the
- characters she has come to know, either through Thomas or through
- Puddle Lane. (One warning about PL: magicians and dragon-like monsters,
- toys that come to life, and so on, are integral to the series. They
- are not scary in any way but if you are against books that discuss
- such things as real, you will not like this series.)
-
- Kate
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