Hi, I think we are hitting an issue with my DD's reading age being above her maturity level. She has a real issue with the level of threat in the books she is reading.
She is in Y1 and is bringing turquoise books home but is reading at a higher level again when she reads for fun. What I am struggling to do is find books that challenge her reading ability but which she is emotionally prepared to deal with. She's been devouring the Rainbow Magic books over the summer but she still has to sit next to me to read chapters with Jack Frost in (This is an improvement as I used to have to hold the book for her). It's not that I have to make her read, she loves reading and will devour books at any opportunity, but I'm running out of ideas for books with no threat in them so that she can read them for fun.
I've tried the Darcy Bussell Ballet books and those are apparently really scary so she has to be made to read the once she is past the first couple of chapters. She's read Dick King Smith's Sophie books (or we have read them together) an those were OK. She's scared of the Worst Witch and didn't like Flat Stanley. She has read some Horrid Henry and I have more of those on my list to get from the library. We've read the first of the Faraway Tree books but those are that bit harder and she needs more support with them.
So what else can people suggest?
Thanks in advance for any input.