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  1. My experience is that one never outgrows Lego. My husband is 37 and plays with Lego at least 8 hours a week.
  2. I have All About Homophones. It is not designed to write directly in it. You have to photocopy the graphic organizers and the worksheets are not perforated. Her intention is that they be photocopied. So I would say, yes, there is lots of photocopying, but the entire book is for grades 1-8, so it is to use in a 7 year period. Perhaps taking that into account it wouldn't seem like so much photocopying.
  3. "Home For a Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown. My parents read to me a lot when I was a toddler, then at some point they stopped. I didn't read much as my reading comprehension has a lot to be desired and I find it so frustrating.
  4. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! These suggestions are wonderful and will keep us going for a looooong time! Now I just have to gather up the books! DS7 can read all the words, but the text in books and the length of books is often overwhelming for him. Sometimes he reads so fast that he trips over his tongue and leaves out small words, and sometimes he stops to sound out CVC words, so I'm not sure what "level" of reading he should be in. Although he can read "grade 4" words, he is definately not at "grade 4" reading level. Awesome response to a newbie's question! Thank you all for taking the time!!
  5. My 7 yo son just finished The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading. He can decipher words beautifully and his fluency is coming along nicely. His problem (not actually a problem, but I'm looking to help him grow here) is that anything longer than a grade 2 picture book tires him when he is reading it. I can physically see him getting tired from all that brain work, which is fine....mental work is tiring. I would like to get him started and excited about reading chapter books on his own (or reading to me since he refuses to read on his own) but all the choices I have found at the library are too difficult (print too small and overwhelming) or junk. It seems like our only choices are Captain Underpants, or early chapter books put out by Disney or Star Wars and the like. I would really appreciate some suggestions for first chapter books, or books that help transition into chapter books and how to ease him into them. He gets easily overwhelmed by a whole page of print, even though he is able to read difficult words. I'm also not sure if I am pushing him too much in expecting that he should be able to read for 15 minutes straight. He has great comprehension when he is reading (I think so anyways, but my comprehension isn't the greatest lol). We have are using the Scholastic reading levels as a guide to pick our books from the library and are currently doing GRL I, which is Grade 2 stuff, although at the end of TOPGTTR, it says that you are reading Grade 4 Level words.
  6. I didn't read all the replies (okay...I didn't read any of them...) but FIAR did not work for us because my boys found the repetition boring. They didn't like reading the same story 5 days in a row and they didn't like talking about the same story 5 days in a row either. Of all the curriculum I have used for my kids, FIAR was the most disliked, which surprised me. Too much repetition. My boys love the books they use though, just not every day for a week.
  7. I don't have a cell phone. And I even live up North in Canada where the winters are brutal. But I'm also in a big city and a payphone is never really *that* far away. Even after having a car breakdown out in the the middle of a highway by myself 30 minutes from a major city in the dead of winter at 10:30pm, I still view cell phones as a luxury item.
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