Recommended chapter books for good Y1 readers?

[jennifersofia]

For girls and for boys please..
any that your children have been taken with?
TIA

Olga da Polga and the Sophie books. Mine like the "fairy" books - Katie the Kitten Fairy, etc and Secret Unicorn and Magic Kitten.

Roald Dahl here.

Posted on another thread but:
Rainbow Magic
Naughty Little Sister
Milly Molly Mandy
Tiara Club (sorry I have a yr1 good reading DD clearly!)

Also Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo (simpler ones) and Horrid Henry (DD likes thos actually)

These are great! I've got a list to head to the bookshop on Saturday (it is for my Y1 class) Any other suggestions?

Secret Seven and Famous Five by Enid Blyton

ds2 (7) loves the Viking books by Cressida Cowell - How to be a Viking etc - they're well-written and very funny - he also races through pretty much anything written by Roald Dahl

Mr Majeika books by Humphrey Caprenter

Have you looked online at Red House or The Book People? They're not clubs, and you can buy some age appropriate books really cheaply.

Ds1 (Y1) really liked these Sprinter books and these nonfiction ones.

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Thanks everyone, in the end I got two that weren't recommended (but still look good - Glog by Phillipa Goodhart and The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson) because I was somewhat limited by the number of copies that the bookstore had. But I think I will be ordering some of those other ones, thanks. I will also check out that link, Ladymuck, thanks.

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Ds1 who is in Yr1 likes Roald Dahl, Horrid Henry, Charlotte's Web, Enid Blyton.

The books my yr1 dd is most enthusiastic about aren't actually chapter books, but "fact books". History, science, geography. This week she's been engrossed in books about the Fire of London and the Great Plague. We get them from the library.

I'm just mentioning it cos I assumed they'd like fiction best, I always did, so it didn't really occur to me that they'd read history etc with more enthusiasm.

Out of chapter books to read to herself, she likes Horrid Henry best.

I think at this age many children, even if they are very fluent readers, can get put off by unbroken pages of text, which is why the "Horrid Henry" and "Rainbow Fairy" style books, with large type and regular line drawings, appeal. That's also why factual books can appeal more at this age - you don't have to read pages of words without illustrations.

We have recently found the Lynne Reid-Banks series about Harry, the poisonous centipede, which has lots of line drawings and is fairly unisex.

Are many year 1s at this sort of stage? In my ds's school, I would say that there's only 5 or so (out of 60) who could read the Famous Five easily. And I don't think there's even one who could tackle Charlette's Web. Is ours a particularly cr*p school? I wouldn't have thought so!

I think it depends on the number off children who just "get it" really. In DS reception class there are 5 children who are now reading horrid henry/fairies and are happy on chapter books. So in YR1 I would expect that number to increase, especially by the this time next year....

maybe a good time to start on comic strip type books (beano, dandy, asterix, tintin) DS is doing this as he has the reading ability and understanding but not the stamina yet for longer books

plus fact books (he is into childrens atlases where there is explanaton about each country)

Well, I have a strange class in that I have about 10 that are at chapter book stage and about 9 that are still struggling with CVC's! Very odd, as they are all english as a second language. I think it just depends on the class. I am sure yours isn't a cr*p school!

By the way, thanks so much for the suggestions everyone - I am buying some books and writing the other suggestions down.

No, I don't think it's a cr*p school at all - that was a feeble joke! But I am constantly amazed when I rhear reading at the range of abilities in NT children. Is it really that they develop at different speeds, or could they all be at the same level if they were taught differently? Any thoughts?

my ds is year 2, and a very good reader. I got him secret 7 books from the library, but he wasn't at all interested. He too loves the science type fact books - like fossils/dinosaurs/ earthquakes/myths - like Dorling & usborne(There are some good ORT types at school too), Some quite complex text, but he would much rather read that than a story. I notice the better girls in the class choose the same type books also.

Definitely develop at different speeds. Some children you can go over and over concepts until you are blue in the face and they won't get it, others will grasp it first time. Also to do with age of the child. In Y1 at least, you can really tell the young children (August born) and some of the things they simply are not ready for. I couldn't imagine a class of 30 children that were all at the same level, no matter what the teaching was like.

The film version,( with lots of lovely stills from the movie...), of the lion the witch and the wardrobe has bigger text than any other version....my DS,( 6 ), can now manage it.

Katelyle, I do feel that it has a lot to do with the individual...My ds was 5 in May, but we have been told he is reading at Y2 standard at the moment, there is another dc who is further ahead than that, and another 2 who are the same or thereabouts as ds, at a mix of ages. The rest of the children are reading well or are age appropriate. My dd is 3 1/2 and is not at the same stage reading/words wise as ds was at the same age...nothing has been done differently, just going to take longer for her to "click" i think....her strengths lie in drawing/making things...think she will write better and earlier than ds did....