Reading recommendations for Yr 2 child please - Stage 13 ORT

[jil]

Dd finished the reading scheme in her infant school in Yr 1 and has been on 'free readers' ever since.

I spoke to her teacher today, who tells me that she's pretty much exhausted the books they have in school for her.

Any recommendations you have for extending her reading would be lovely.

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Blimey, must be a pretty crap school not to cater for good readers!

Mine likes anything by Roald Dahl, Olga da Polga, Paddington, anything by Jacqueline Wilson, Miss Happiness & Miss Flower by Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi...and is currently reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Not an Enid Blyton fan at all, though.

Hope that gets you started!

The endless assembly-line of Rainbow Fairy books is always useful ... As is the Horrid History/Horrid Science juggernaut.

Clarice Bean?

Dd is reading rather a sweet series called Rainbow Animal Hospital - sample here . Ds had a series of nice lively chapter-from-history books called Historical Storybooks - sample here .

I recall that frogs got together with a group of mothers at their school to collect in a boxful of second-hand books (eg, books older siblings had grown out of) for extended reading. Fantastic idea, maybe you could do the same if your school is as under-resourced as it sounds?

By the way, both Rainbow Animal Hospital and Historical Storybooks are quite stretching, so probably what you're after - my favourite bit of Historical Storybooks is where Henry VIII as a boy is being put through a proxy marriage: "Then one of the courtiers put his fully-clothed leg into the marriage bed. It's a symbol, we were told. How we all howled."

my 6 yr old dd loves all the Roald Dahl books and also gets the magazine (Magical World of Roald Dahl), the 'My Naughty Little Sister' books are also a bit hit with her, Pippi Longstocking, Lotta on Troublemaker Street, she also like the 'My Secret Unicorn' series but tbh I don't think they're good value for money, she reads them in one evening and it doesn't seem like particularly good children's literature.

She also likes children's collections of poems and rhymes and the DK eyewitness books.

jil- I am not sure what exact age your daughter is now, but stage 13 ORT is not unusual for a good reader who is aged 6 or thereabouts. No teacher should have said that she has exhausted the school's supply of books unless perhaps by now she is in year 6 which somehow I doubt. There are lots of good archived threads about books poeple recommend, but you need to talk to the school again and check out what the state of play really is. Just make sure that the books are appropriate not only for her reading age but for her general awareness of social issues and understanding.

oops- she is year 2- tired and didn't read it properly. so in addition to what I said previously, definitely go back to the school . Of our 50 or so year 2s, at least 1/3 of them are reading stage 13 or beyond and it is not an overly academic school.

Thank you for all the recommendations.

Dd reached Stage 13 in Yr 1 after Christmas and has been on the 'free readers' ever since. They don't put them on to Stage 14 as they don't have any - you have to wait until they go next door to the junior school.

Imo, these 'free readers' are easy - good fun maybe, but they're not extending her. Perhaps I've been a bit complacent, but I thought the school knew best.

Tbh, my heart sank when some of you mentioned that the school might be a bit lacking. Think I'll have to talk to the teacher again.

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just wanted to add 'Heidi' to the list - my dd is currently reading this with great enthusiasm and at least it's proper children's literature (unlike the unicorn nonsense she also likes). It's also a nice fat book and will last a little while.