What is year 2 child - age 6/7 - reading? Or you to them?

[MrsPear]

Our old primary was non pressured and as long as you read something at least your reading type.

New primary pressured and all about levels. Anyway I mentioned that ds year 2 asked for gruffalo for his bedtime story and the look I got from the head and his teacher. I felt embarrassed tbh So what should I be reading to him?! And should I just cull all his books ? Is there a list somewhere ?!

Place marking!

DS loves being read to.
Swallows and Amazons series
How to train your dragon series
Harry Potter (first 2 only at 7.5 years)
The Paddington books
Magic faraway tree series
Swiss family Robinson
Robin Hood - not sure what version.

Swallows and amazons?!

Ds age 9 has only just finished that.

Harrypotter age 8 - and the last school said that was good!

I’m glad I didn’t mention Winnie the witch now!

My DS is 7 next month and has been reading Diary of a Wimpy kid recently. Before that it was Captain Underpants.

(But he still loves his Julia Donaldson!)

Really? I’m a TA in y2, I’d be happy with The Gruffalo. They should enjoy these type of books while they are young.

DD is Yr2, at the moment we’re on Harry Potter at bedtime, have also read Roald Dahls, David Walliams and the unicorn series too.
She still loves to read herself Tiddler / stickman when we’re not looking

Oh and the School Ship Tobermory series by Alexander McCall Smith.

Horrid Henry
Roald Dahl
But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with still liking picture books and rhyme!

Also my ds liked Beast Quest in year 2.

Biff and chip and he struggles with that!

This despite me being a big reader, weekly visits to the library to change books and reading books sent home from school.

I find it incredibly difficult to help him read, I get frustrated when he reads a word then the same word comes up a few sentences later and he can’t recognise or read it.
I cannot persuade him to read out a word without spelling out .. very very slowly every single letter.. even with the very simple words.
I NEVER EVER show this frustration obviously, but any tips from those of you with very young super readers would very much be appreciated.

By the end of yr2 my strong reader was reading those books above but my nervous reader wasn't reading those until yr3. I am of the opinion of your read what they enjoy. Books shouldn't have an age limit. Do what you both enjoy. If you want, maybe add in a couple of 'bigger' books. Also my nervous reader really felt the pressure of having to learn to read and then she found the whole thing not enjoyable so we went back to basics and found some 'younger' books she loved to re spark the joy. I dont read the bigger books to my girls they are for them to read themselves before bed. If you want good transition books we have found david walliams and diary of a wimpy kids ones great. X

My just started year 2 (almost 7) loves the "Wilf The Mighty Worrier" series. Read the whole lot of them over the summer holidays.

My yr2 enjoys books like Horrid Henry and the Worst Witch independently.
I read all sorts to her - currently Roald Dahl 'The Witches'. But also really into Enid Blyton

Crosser my eldest was like this! I was quite upset as I am a big reader. She is amazing now in yr4 just keep going. Like I said above read books they enjoy not ones they are forced too. Bloody hate biff and chip.

Strong reader...reading himself Ronald Dahl and Captain Underpants and some of the younger Diana Wynne Jones books. We’re currently reading him The Bagthorpes series by Helen Cresswell (my old copies!) which have vocab that really challenges him but he is loving. Hoping to move onto Rosemary Suttcliffe and her ilk soon.

It’s all swings and roundabouts though...DS1 can’t ride a bike at all where most of his year can.

I bloody hate biff & chip too and I think he does too.

We go to the library so he can choose books he is interested in as I don’t want him to hate books.

Don’t cull! It’s great that he likes books. How about TinTin or Asterix?

Never cull what they want to read. Just make sure to have lots of others available.

My Yr2 reads ‘early reader’ chapter books. She also loves How to grow a dinosaur, Alien School, and anything by Julia Donaldson (including
For bedtime stories we read Harry Potter, the Secret Kingdom and various other chapter books. She does like them to still have pictures though. We’ve also done some Asterix, but she finds it a bit hard going.

to read aloud - Podkin One Ear series, Little House on the Prairie series

for 6 yr old to read - adventures of Mr Penguin, Sophie is Six & the rest of that series. anything with short chapters & lots of pictures.

I don’t see a problem with reading a year 2 (or older!) child something like The Gruffalo if they ask for it. Sometimes children just want a story that’s familiar and comforting.

Also, re Winnie the Witch, last time I was in the library, I spotted some more advanced Winnie the Witch books. Along the lines of first chapter book rather than the simpler picture books. He might like those if he likes the picture book versions?

In year 2, DC1 was starting to branch out into Horrid Henry, the simpler Roald Dahl books, the 13 Storey Treehouse series, plus a variety of Usbourne non fiction look inside xyz books. The Project X Alien Adventures reading scheme books also really captured his attention.

My DD is almost 7. She likes to read Roald Dahl. Favourites for me to read to her recently have been Harry Potter (books 1-4) and lemony snickets series of unfortunate events. We’ve just restarted the chronicles of Narnia and are halfway through the magicians nephew

My nearly 7 year old will not read anything independently but loves being read to every night. We read anything, currently on a Team Hero books, also read Captain Underpants, Anne Fine and Horrid Henry recently.

As a teacher, I would say reading at home falls into 2 camps:

• familiar and cosy. The gruffalo would be this
• more challenging than your child can read alone. This promotes comprehension, especially where you ask questions, love of books, wider vocabulary, eagerness to get to the reading level to name but a few points.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading what your child loves and never stop doing it. Many people stop reading when their children can read themselves, which means you rarely get them to read anything more challenging. Maybe, now he knows and loves some familiar texts, he can read you the gruffalo and you can read him chapter one of 'George's Marvellous Medicine ' for example.

Year 2 DD is currently enjoy David Williams. The Worlds Worst Children one she likes.

First Harry Potter she also enjoyed I wouldn't let her read into the older ones yet though.

And Roald Dahl are always a hit.

She also likes the fairy magic/animal friends crap that there are hundreds of.

She does still have all the Julia Donaldson picture books and she loves them. She'll often take a few into the little snook under her cabin bed and read them. So I find it pretty awful the teacher acted how they did.

I enjoy Room on the Broom and Charlie Cook!

I work in an infant school and we still ready picture books like these to our year 2s, as well as shorter chapter books.
It's nice to have a mix and it's also good for children to get to see nice pictures in books as well as having picture less books.