Reception child - easy reading books.

[figleaf]

My little one has been at school full time now for 2 weeks prior to the holiday and this week (thur and fri). We have just started with reading books. Before the holiday we had an Oxford reading tree book - Floppy Flopppy which was moronically boring. The whole book is Oh! Floppy, No Floppy, Floppy Floppy. Last night we has Six in a bed ie Mum and Dad and Biff and Chip and Kipper and Floppy.
My little tot already knows 20+ of the sight words in the literacy strategy. He is also quite good at sounding out new words.
Should I say somthing or just wait till the 17th November when we have a parents meeting?

[LIZS]

We've had all those too ! Can you child also recognise those words out of context ? Perhaps print them off individually and play a few games. Personally I'd wait for parent's evening, there's no real rush. These books are used to reinforce classwork and to establish the basic characters/story/relationships and do become more interesting as they move to the next level.

[bonkerz]

We have these books too and some my DS finds easy but they do get harder. You can buy sets of these books to read at home and i find DS loves them! Its the magic key series!
/link{http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp/you can get them cheaper than this though}

[figleaf]

How did you manage to act interested and enthusiastic when its sooooooooo boring.

[bonkerz]

sorry try here

[fennel]

there's another thread the last couple of days in the Education section. people are recommending some other books for this level. Bob books or something. check it out maybe. it's called something like Jolly Phonics and Oxford Reading Tree.

i suggest you wait til parents evening but get other books in at home to read with him.

[figleaf]

Thanks Bonkerz. I found the ORT web page too. My tot likes the videos of the magic key but these books - snoozy.

[figleaf]

Yes Fennel I thought I would. He likes Dr Seuss and can read most of a lot of them himself.

[bonkerz]

Unfortunately as my DS school KEEPS saying. IT IS NOT THE TEACHERS JOB TO TEACH THE CHILDREN TO READ BUT TO PROVIDE THE PARENTS WITH THE TOOLS TO TEACH THERE CHILDREN TO READ!!!! My son only changes his floppy books once a week and gets bored after reading them twice so ive had to find other ways to help move him on!

[LIZS]

Our problem is that dd has "lived" the ORT already through her brother and Magic Key. She still takes pride in looking through her books but frankly we spend relatively little time on them at home. We talk about the pictures and "plot" and also got the relevant extended story pamphlet with those ones so the adult can expand upon the story which gives you more material to discuss, perhaps ask your teacher about that. We also have the Read at Home ones - elc had them on 3 for 2 recently.

We are currently on a different set of books (Rigby ?) which are more of a mixture of fiction and non fiction, emphasising different letter sounds and sight words.

[Gobbledigook]

Issymum suggested the BOB books to me and I just got mine from Amazon - they are definitely not hugely inspiring stories but teh point is, that they are phonics based and so at the earliest level a child with knowledge of just a few of teh 'sounds' can start to read. It boosts their confidence. Ds1 has read a couple 2 nights running now and he is just so excited when he can read it - I don't think it matters to him just yet that it's boring - for him it's not really about teh story, it's about working out what the words say and the satisifaction of getting it right.

[coldtea]

Floppy Floppy was my sons 1st reading book too!(He's in year 1 now).

What really helped my son to read was to have a whole stack of 'sight' words which i wrote individually onto post notes. I then stuck them on the wall & encouraged him to make new sentences. So for example, he would rearrange words to read...mum and dad went to see floppy. Floppy saw the ball.

He really loved doing this(still does!)and enjoyed making silly sentences too.