Five year old DD has been sent home with an Oxford Reading Tree book about Bands. It has pages of text about the drummer "laying down the beats", Destiny's Child not paying their own instruments, the formation of the Beatles (with long lists of their hits), Gnarls Berkley's first single getting to number one etc etc
DD is 5 FFS.
She does not know what a single is, has no concept of the charts, lists of names of Beatles songs bore her to tears, the fact that Mick Jagger has been in The Rolling Stones for 50 years is incomprehensible to her.
These books are aimed at y1 kids. What is wrong with fairy tales stories that might actually catch their imagination?
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to think reading scheme books should be about subject interesting to young children.
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JesusChristBenton · 04/12/2011 13:00
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