shawthorne44 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 We are at the point in DD's reading where she is reading one Bob-type book to DH every night at bedtime. It is so adorable to listen to! The books are actually from Level 1 of "Now I'm Reading" which are positively scintillating compared to the Bob books. The trouble is that although she can read the words. She looks at the pictures instead. So, the book called "Wet Legs" has a drawing of a chicken. She reads it as "Wet Chicken". Is there another brand that doesn't have pictures, but still has super simple words? Or maybe the picture on the page following the words? Or maybe another tack? At the moment we keep having to redirect her to the word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nature girl Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 We did Progressive Phonics at that level, I pulled the stories up on the laptop and just scrolled down to the text below the image so it was all she could see. (The pictures are cute/funny, so they definitely would have been distracting.) When she'd finished reading I'd scroll up to the picture so she could look at it and talk about it and the story, to make the whole thing more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 You could make your own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I made our own, using the words she knew, names of family members, friends, pets, etc, one sentence per page. She loved to draw (still does), so if she could read the sentence she got to illustrate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I just bought Reading Pathways by Jossey-Bass. It has the pyramid style of reading. For example, Bob Bob had Bob had a bag. Bob had a big bag. etc. this was on page 17. Not a lot of pictures. More like a boy hanging of the pyramid. the boy is seen throughout the book. I also like books by Nora Gaydos. I can't speak for the whole series, but I bought level 2 under Learning to Read. So, it'll have a picture of a monkey on the first pageand under it it says "The monkey". Then on the next page it'll have the monkey with cake and under the picture it'll say "The gray monkey and cake". or something like that. I second progressive phonics. This one is free. :) Good luck. I know it's tough finding the right one. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Make my own? What a novel idea! Maybe I could get her to help write it. I am pretty sure it is Nora Gaydos that wrote our books. They are pretty cute. Maybe I will post-it-note over the pictures until she has read the text. They are pretty darn cute pictures. You guys are so inspiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I also used a "magnetic" photo album, so we could put in our own text, pictures, photos, etc as well as change it up as we wanted. That made it easy to personalize. You could even let her make her own---have a set of written sentences and pictures or photos to go with them and let her match them up to make a story. If you want to work on sequencing as well, you could have her put the sentences in order herself rather than setting it up for her. You could also put the pictures in order and have her match the words to them. Lots of possibilities. The albums are cheap at the thrift store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Does McGuffey have readers at that low of a level? Like CVC words with only short vowels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Having her illustrate a book she narrates might help with another issue that shouldn't bother me, but is. She likes to make everything one color. Usually purple. Just broad streaks of colors. Maybe if the start was a blank page she wouldn't do that. She can draw a certain area just as well as the other kids in her preschool sunday school class. She just chooses not too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMRB Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 It might sound silly, but with both kids, we used a napkin to cover the illustrations until after they read the text. DD is too good at using picture cues, so it's absolutely necessary for her. When we started covering the pictures, we found out where she truly was on her decoding skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 The Blend Phonics Decodable Readers don't have pictures and can be downloaded for free. http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/blend_phonics.html edited for grammar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I See Sam are fun to read, and entirely phonetically decodable. They have simple black and white pictures, but they are intentionally drawn so that they don't give text clues. They are free to print here, though you can by them bound too. http://www.marriottmd.com/sam/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrale Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 I love preschool prep readers. Both the sightword and phonics readers are good. You can cover the picture easily. It was what I had to use for my son so he wasn't always guessing. I can't recommend them enough. My son still reads them sometimes, even though he is a chapter book reader. http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/bks.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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