Learning to read books- 4yo

[LilaGrace]

My DD (who'll be 4 in May) is showing great interest in learning to read. Can anyone recommend a great series of books which have simple words for her to read herself (with my help) along with a story? Ideally ones where the books in the series gradually get harder. I remember the Peter and Jane ladybird books from when I was a child and was hoping for something like those (but more modern!)

You're right of course Mrz. I'm just a lowly parent. Obviously this precludes me from having any qualifications, interest in linguistics or opinion on education.

You're clearly the expert. An infants teacher who couldn't even read the first line of the OP properly. You win.

brasseye, so your dd never decoded any unknown words since she started recognising words at 2 until she learned phonics at school?

Clearly not a big Dr Seuss fan.

good try Brass but you will see (if you choose to) that I've said numerous times that many "just mums" (your words not mine) are far more knowledgeable about teaching reading than some teachers, plenty of evidence on this thread.
I'm not an expert and haven't claimed to be but I have read the research, spoken to experts and worked with far too many children who have been failed by poor but well meant teaching methods to remain quiet when I see people spouting nonsense.

As for having an interest in linguistics and learning did you bother to read Professor Dehaene's lecture about how our brains read?

Mrz, now I get what you mean. Having interest so early for reading but not managed to unlock the decoding code themselves, and still be fluent reader sounds unusual.
My ds was definitely different. He definitely has figured out how to decode by himself, he was definitely sounding out new words he encountered for first time.

Please would you have ideas on how to extend a learning child's reading into activities in everyday life. To keep up their curiosity.

Cheeky, what do you mean? Words - and this reading - are everywhere. Spotting sounds that they know in the environment - shops, road signs -, sounding out road names when you're out on a walk, getting e.g. tins or packets out of a cupboard or from a supermarket shelf when given the clue that they start with or contain a particular sound. Lots and lots of gamnes - i spy with sounds not letters, Simon says with unblended sounds that have to be blended to do the activity (e.g. Simon says h - o -p). Or treasure hunts to find individual graphemes (so or , for example) on post-it notes that have to be assembled to make a decodeable message or instruction.

Lots of museums and art gallery type places have children's trails, many of which may contain decodeable words.