If I see the word "look" once more in a reading book...

[littlebylittle]

I think I'll go mad! It seems to be in absolutely every one I've read with dd!

Have you not reached the joyous stage of 'oh no!' ?

It's much more repetitive and infinitely less interesting Euphemia

Look
Look
Look
Look
Look

then
Look here
no here
Look in here

Yes it IS that repeative. Todays book for my ds was 10 pages of "Where is it?". No deviation from that AT ALL.

mrz is totally right. Its painfull.

Oh no! I'd forgotten that one! Everyone and couldn't seem over frequent too. Any others?

It's not only painful, it's completely unnecessary.

If the school were teaching phonics properly and using decodable books the range of words in the books would be much, much wider and far less repetitive.

It makes me laugh, hollowly, when the 'sight words and reading for meaning' brigade hold forth about boring phonics, when teaching reading by their methods necessitate the use of the deathless prose quoted above by mrz Give me Jelly and Bean any day

Oh there is a whole set of them Euphemia 5 or 6 look then the same for here ... then look here ...

Yes, floppy floppy was a classic. Mind you, it seems to be paying off- dd has had the moment of realising she can read other books too! So high quality phonics or not, I feel a bit better.

I'm with you maizieD - and at least with the phonics readers they should end up actually having word attack skills rather than just trying to guess words from memory.

Lord, that sounds ghastly, and educationally pointless! Hurray, she can now read "look". Let's start all over again with "book".....