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If your kid was reading well as a preschooler, then what books did they enjoy?

 

It's increasingly difficult to pick books that are appropriate for his development. He reads a lot of nonfiction and has a new interest in fiction, but I don't want books with violence, mean words, or naughty behavior as he's in stage where he mimics and repeats everything.

 

 

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Gosh, it's been a long time, but here's something a lot of people forget (I don't know if you're one of them): Most picture books are written for adults to read aloud - so they're more difficult to read than easy readers. If he's been moving to easy readers and simple chapter books you can put him back on picture books.

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The tip I got that was most useful to me was to look at lists of "books to read aloud to your X year old" or "best audiobooks for an X year old". Those usually have content appropriate for an X year old, but reading levels that expect parental involvement.

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The Kingdom of Wrenly is a great book series that your kid might enjoy. My son has loved it and we have even passed it around to friends with great reviews.

That's off the top of my head, but I can go look at his book shelf later. What books (or what level) is he currently reading?

 

 

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What worked best for our three-year-old readers was to go to the library and pick a large variety of picture books. He could pick what he wanted to read, and it was indeed great for building vocabulary when his stamina wasn't sufficient text-only books. Mine particularly loved action books like "Don't Push the Button" or funny books like "The Easter Cat." You can go as complicated as you want with picture books, including some very long ones as stamina improves. Obviously, anything by Mo Willems, Dr. Suess, Julia Donaldson, etc. will be suitable.

 

Oxford Reading Tree library has a wonderful set of free ebooks for reading on a tablet or on the computer. Both fiction and non-fiction, and my boys have loved the characters.

 

Early chapter books tend to have very simplistic vocabulary, and there's no need to rush into those. 

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My preschooler liked Scholastic's Branches Series. Larger type, lots of pictures, and chapters. They were a great bridge for my kid to a typical chapter book. He was ready to read chapter books, but still wanted pictures. But he also didn't want to read picture books, preferring those for evening read aloud time. I still struggle to find books for him to read, the good reads list above will help me I'm sure. My 1st grader is now reading on a 4th-5th level.

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Look at Sonlight's curriculum for P3/4, P4/5, and Core A. The content is suitable for young ages, but the reading level is intended for parents to read aloud to the student, so they would be appropriate for an advanced reader.

 

Other literature based curricula with preschool packages intended to be read aloud by the parent would be good places to find recommendations.

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My daughter has loved Little Bear, Arnold Lobel, The Kingdom of Wrenly books, and a lot of picture books. She has also loved Curious George books which are at a mid second/early third grade level. I use the Lexile website a lot. You can search via lexile measure and then limit by age or content. 

 

I  got her this series for Easter and it seems right on her level. My DD can decode at a 4th grade level, but doesn't always have the stamina to do longer chapter books. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943147094/ref=pe_861660_138883610_fxm_4_0_n_id

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Geronimo Stilton has several great series.  Some are chapter books and some are comic-book style novels which my DS started getting into at about 5 years old.  At that age he also devoured The Littles series.

But I'm also going to say picture books are where it is at!  We love the Elephant and Piggie books my Mo Williems (sophisticated humor).  Bernenstain Bears, Little Golden Books (especially the older ones from used book stores), The Day the Crayons Quit, Dragons Love Tacos, Robot Sauce are a few that come to mind and books that the whole family enjoys.  And, of course, any classics that you loved as a kid are still around.  Don't skip them!

  

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