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EightBySix:
Quite old fashioned, but still popular for a reason are Enid blyton books....
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 06, 2012, 12:10:52 pm ---Judy Moody by Meg McDonald
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+1
My neices enjoyed these books.
SithMaster:
I have no mouth, and I must scream by harlan ellison.
The only novels I could suggest are ones from elementary school required reading (Island of the Blue Dolphin, Where the Red Fern Grows, and many others I can't remember) for something normal. I always liked those choose your own adventure novels (even better with the 3d image pages).
As far as math goes perhaps this Math Rescue with an incentive for high scores.
Dervacumen:
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Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
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Maddy loves Fancy Nancy. We only have one Skippyjon Jones book, but it's a regular. And it's one of the few non-chapter books that I still regularly read (as opposed to my daughter reading to me) because I do voices for all the characters. When Maddy does read it, it's hilarious to hear her subtly try to do the same voices.
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Skippy Jon Jones and Fancy Nancy were huge hits here, too. Just this morning my daughter was singing a Skippy Jon Jones song on the way to school.
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--- 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.
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Learning to read provides the foundation for reading to learn. What's better than that, really? Children your daughter's age aren't normally great at math, since there's no survival advantage to being able to calculate at that age. There is an advantage to being able to communicate effectively, though.
--- Quote from: SithMaster on March 06, 2012, 03:19:09 pm ---I have no mouth, and I must scream by harlan ellison.
The only novels I could suggest are ones from elementary school required reading (Island of the Blue Dolphin, Where the Red Fern Grows, and many others I can't remember) for something normal. I always liked those choose your own adventure novels (even better with the 3d image pages).
As far as math goes perhaps this Math Rescue with an incentive for high scores.
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Bought one of these just two days ago. An instant hit. I wrote my first computer adventure game based on this concept. Unfortunately, Zork had a larger following.
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 06, 2012, 03:18:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 06, 2012, 12:10:52 pm ---Judy Moody by Meg McDonald
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+1
My neices enjoyed these books.
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SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 06, 2012, 12:58:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on March 06, 2012, 11:52:15 am ---Barbara Park - Junie B. Jones series about a 1st grade girl.
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I read two of the Junie B. Jones stories recently. I sort of detested them. For one thing, I think the protagonist is a spoiled brat. She has a horrible attitude about everything. Page after page I'm thinking to myself, pretty much non-stop, "Oh god . . . please don't let Maddy get any ideas." Junie B. just an absolute spoiled rotten nightmare, nonstop. And the author bugs me with what I perceive to be constant little nods to the parent-readers, meant to have the parents chuckling to themselves about the silly way children interpret their world. Only . . . most of it doesn't seem authentic to me at all. It feels really contrived--not the least of which being Junie B.'s annoying speech patterns.
Moreover, it doesn't seem to me that Junie B. is the hero of her stories. Her bad attitude and dysfunctional behavior get her into messes and instead of having her, like, stop and think about the situation and overcome the conflicts, she just ends up being rescued by an adult or coincidence or something.
My daughter seemed to like them fine, though.
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I dislike those books.for exactly the same reason. Worse, in an interview with the author, she admits to having no desire to writing children's books. She continues for no other reason that it's a cash cow.
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