year 1 books for reading at home

[Tamsin72]

Hi everyone

I wonder if anyone can recommend some nice simple books for reading at home?

My DS is in year one. He is on Oxford reading tree books, level 3. He's recently become interested in reading other books and school says he needs to improve his fluency, so I wonder if anyone can recommend any books for him to read at home?

thanks in advance!

Tamsin

Hi I know a lot of people don't agree but I bought the ORT read at home books from the book people website £15 for 30 books 6 for each stage 1 to 5. My kids have loved them and they liked the continuity of the characters from what they read at school. My kids never wanted to read for themselves the picture books we'd read at home Julia Donaldson etc they saw them as the books I read to them only and so the ORT ones really felt like their very own to them cos they were the ones reading them.

How about the ones you can buy from M&S which have a longer page on the left for you to read to him, and a shorter page on the right for him to read to you?

When my dd was at that level she also enjoyed the DR Seuss books - cat in the hat etc, as many of the words can be easily sounded out or predicted by the rhyme.

DD1 enjoyed these sets when she was a newly confident reader, she loved Dora & Diego, if not these characters look for something similar?

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I borrowed the ORT Read at Home books from the library because these are the only books DS will read - they do Rigby Star at school.

Have a look at www.readingchest.co.uk/

Hello

DD is also year one. She has just discovered the Happy Family Books (Mrs Wobble the Waitress/Mr Tick the Teacher) which she loves. She needs help to read them i.e. she can read a couple of sentences and then will be stumped by a couple of words but she is thrilled to be reading a book that isn't about Biff, Chip et al

We've also bought a book called "The Giant Postman" which is part of the "I am reading" range published by Kingfisher. Again, it is a bit of a stretch from the ORT books - some sentences are straightforward and repetitive so she gets them straight away ("He's coming" said the little girl, "He's coming" said the little boy") whereas others are more of a leap "Behind closed curtains people shivered with fear" - but it's a good story so she perservered.