Blue level child reading dogger.

[Mothergothel99]

My DS (5) reads pretty well, blue band book are pretty easy maybe one or two mistakes, green level with a bit of guidance.

Today he picked up and read Dogger, read it really well, it's a library book so not read from memory. So I tried him with a couple of ladybird books, chicken liken, little red riding hood. He can also read them with a little bit of help with long words. ( no more help than the green level)

Why? Do you think he's just a bit more engaged with them? have I wasted money on all the scheme books

Everyone who buys reading scheme books is wasting their money, tbh.

Just take him to the library and let him pick what he wants. This reading one series in a linear fashion and staying the course is very bizarre. Let them keep the boring formulaic crap for school and let him read what he wants.

Reading with those schemes is very funny. It's almost as it children are taught to read hesitantly and to sound out as a matter of course, as if that is how you are supposed to read. Even if you can read war and peace in your head fluently, you are supposed to fanny about with biff and chip and sound like you are struggling. Bizarre. Expectation fulfillment, I think!

There is more to reading than knowing what the words say.

Did he read with expression?
Did he read it without crying?

Did he understand what the very kind thing was (understanding inference)?

Did he understand how the author had built up the understanding that Dogger was a special toy (use of language)?

Did he understand why a 3 year old was allowed to roam freely at a school fair (understanding of setting and context and maybe some author's license to create a better story)?

Did he work out how Dogger got onto the stall in the first place (more inference)?

Expression and comprehension are way, way ahead of the reading level.

He did repeatedly question why we didn't see him loose the dog. We had to scour the page looking to see if he had dropped it he was also concerned that they would sell the toy not hang it on the railing like we do with found toys.
He did get the kind gesture, he wouldn't have done it, but would have got me to resolve the injustice ( as he saw it)

He didn't question a three year old roaming freely, nor why the parents were missing, but neither did I.

Madwomen they were from the book people so only cheap. I just thought they would be easy to use. I wouldn't have tried Dogger as it looks too hard iyswim.

If you want to stick to reading scheme books then use the Oxford owl website as there are loads of free ebooks on there.

When my DD was learning to read once she got to about stage 4/5 she refused scheme books of any description (apart from songbirds) and was obsessed with Topsy and Tim.

No I'm now thinking of abandoning them! (smile) I just can't understand why the others were so easy. Wondered if anyone has had this with their child.

I think there's room for both. The real books are more fun and yes, more engaging generally, but scheme books have their place if you are practising phonic sounds and make sure your DC covers them. DD is similar level, green, can do some orange but most fun to just try reading whatever she likes. You come across more words this way and challenge is good and stretches those brain cells .

Ds refuses to read a reading scheme book at home, he picks whatever he likes off the bookshelf/from library and reads them. Some are too easy, some slightly hard but he gets much more out of all of them than he does a reading scheme, and he enjoys it so much more :)

Hes currently having a go at fantastic Mr. Fox but as this is a long book we are doing a page each :)