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shmokes:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 06, 2012, 01:03:05 pm ---How did the ending of Charlottes web go over? It was super sad for me and I was sad for weeks.

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She was sobbing. It was my first time reading the book too (though I knew the story of course). It would have been embarrassing reading aloud in the company of adults cos they'd have noticed the subtle, involuntary cracks appearing in my voice. But she got over Charlotte's demise and for a long time she was naming her toys after Charlotte's little spider babies. She looks back at reading the book with great fondness and if I were to suggest rereading it she'd jump at the chance.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: DillonFoulds on March 06, 2012, 01:05:34 pm ---I'm impressed, sounds like you have a strong little reader. Someone mentioned Beverly Cleary, maybe you could also consider Judy Blume? She's a writer in the same vein as Beverly, but maybe more oriented towards boys. The "Fudge" series was a favourite of mine growing up.

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Thanks. Yeah, she's amazing. We've never formally worked with her on reading. But since the day she was born I've read stories to her every night before bed. My wife has always been half-cross with me about it because my story times typically run up to like 45 minutes to an hour or more, and my wife is always like, "Jake! You can't keep her up that late." But, of course, she's only half-cross. The other half sees how much Maddy loves books. And now she's just a phenomenal reader. She got her first-ever report card from school like a month or two ago. It said that she's surpassed the reading benchmark for the end of first grade. She was only halfway through Kindergarten. I'm extraordinarily proud of her.

It's so easy with reading, though. Like . . . I don't know how I would so effortlessly teach her math or music. She's in violin lessons, for example, and we explicitly practice the violin. I mean, I suppose we also explicitly have "story time", but it's not the same thing. Story time is a highlight of the day. It's a super fun thing we do every night before going to bed. It would be much harder to do that with something like, e.g., math. I mean, even if I started when she was very very young, I just don't know if I could ever make a before-bed "math time" the same kind of amazing experience that she'd look forward to every day. And it seems much more difficult to teach without explicitly teaching it, i.e., "Two plus two is four. Two plus three is five." Shrug. Maybe that's just for lack of trying, I suppose.

elkameleon:
I'm a big fan of Shel Silverstein's 'Where The Sidewalk Ends', what a great collection of poems and illustrations!

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: elkameleon on March 06, 2012, 01:42:23 pm ---I'm a big fan of Shel Silverstein's 'Where The Sidewalk Ends', what a great collection of poems and illustrations!

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His recordings of his poems are excellent, btw...   :cheers:

EightBySix:
Quite old fashioned, but still popular for a reason are Enid blyton books....

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