Reading to Children - I need some advice

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Is it better for my son (nearly 3) to have the same books read to him everyday (if he wants it) or try and aim for say 10 new books a week from the libary.

I have made it an aim that i want to get lots of new boks per week for us to read each week but is this going to be better?.

I let my 3 year old choose until I am sick to death of 'Meg's car'. Then I give her a choice of three books.

10 new books a week is a lot - I'd let him go at his own pace.

I think he is quite happy to read the same book and also use the libary and he does pick them and say 'take it home mummy' and we looked/read 10 yesterday and they need to be taken back now.

I am unsure if he will develop faster because of the different vocab or if it will hold him back if he is not seeing the same words enough?

He wil quite happily read that many a day.

If you want to expose your son to a wider range of books, you could try introducing some non-fiction on a subject that interests him. Or you could let him come to the library and choose some for himself - that way he is not going to want to miss out on any. Reading the same books every day is likely to do more harm to your enjoyment of reading to your son than to his enjoyment of books. An aim of a particular number of new books a week will probably just give you another thing to worry about. (I like Meg's car, probably because none of my children was obsessed with it. I never knew eggs could be so useful!)

Whoops! Cross-posted here! As well as encouraging reading for themselves, reading books is good for introducing new topics and situations for you and your son to talk about, so variety is a good thing. At his age I wouldn't worry about whether he's getting enough repetition to learn to read - most children don't get the understanding of phonics "logic upgrade" until somewhere between three and four, and it's an uphill struggle (and probably pointless) trying too hard with reading before then. The most common words will be repeated anyway, without having to endure the same book over and over again.

I would suggest letting him lead .. if its the same book then that's the way it goes

it makes no difference whether a child can read before school or learns at school .. they all equalise around the age of 7

IMHO the fact that he loves books is fabulous and the most important thing is the enjoyment .. actually 'reading' is secondary

He can quite happily sit and look/read books with me pointing to the words (because he says 'show words/letters') for about an hour a day. It sometime bores me but he loves it so much that i am willing to and want to encourage him hence reading 10 books yesterday and wanting more today.

then you're already doing everything right

Good, shall give myself a pat on the back then.

you could try taking it in turns to choose a book. Then if he chooses the same book for all his turns at least he gets a new book when it's your turn. Children actually can learn a lot by repeating the same story ad nauseam, word prediction, recognising letters and words, security and comfort etc

here you go

Thankyou very much.

After 10 years of reading books every night, my experience is that they grow out of it.... to some extent. Whenever we run out of new books, we go back to Horrid Henry stories. They are great, but after too much repetition they grate.

do a combination - new books and some old favourites.

My son is younger than yours - he's only two, but I told librarian that he only wants one of four books and she said to go with the flow, do what ds wants up until atleast aged 4.
She said, every week, couple of weeks, introduce maybe only one new book, and if ds not interested, not to make an issue of it.