Reading recommendation for 6 year old (for me to read to her)

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My daughter is 6 and in year 2. The school were almost non existent during lockdown (actually work sent last few weeks before return) and I struggled through working from home and trying my best.
Teacher have informed my husband today at pick up that she is struggling with comprehension the most out of the whole class.
Now I won't get into how let down I feel by them, but she is still not a confident reader so by the time she sounds out words I think she's forgotten what they were.
I'm thinking if as well as her reading, if I could also read a book TO her, a few pages a night, that we could talk about- that might help?

So a recommendation for a good book a 6 year old will like. She doesn't like sad stories but other than that open to anything interesting and fun.

Thanks

My 5yo is gripped by the ickabog

Sleepovers by Jaqueline Wilson.

Cat Mummy, Lizzie Zipmouth, the mum minder by same author are also great but might have 'sad' moments.

The Worst Witch is great.

Roald Dhal James and the giant Peach is good but was the only RD my DC6 enjoyed as a lot of the wording is unfamiliar /

Phillippa Gregory's Princess Rules (about a tomboy princess who gets up to adventures in the kingdom)

At that age def My Naughty Little Sister, also Milly Molly Mandy, Jean Plaidy's Young Elizabeth and Young Mary Queen of Scots, Family at One End Street, Roald Dahl and Worst Witch.

DO not at all costs get sucked into the direly repetitive Rainbow Fairies series.....

If you have got through the suggestions from April I would recommend Winnie the Pooh (the original books by A.A Milne not any later adaptions). They are just perfect for reading aloud and I think are better shared than read alone - six is a good age to read them before they are considered too babyish.

Some of these have already been mentioned but my 5.5 year old has loved me reading to her:

Original Paddington stories (brilliant for guessing what mischief Paddington will get into next!)
Sophie stories by Dick king Smith
Anna Hibiscus
Faraway Tree series
Wishing Chair stories
Worst Witch
Roald Dahl esp Fantastic Mr Fox
Naughty Little Sister

We’ve found versions of all of the above with pictures (not usually on every page).

Also The Owl who was afraid of the dark was a fab one to read together

The Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
The Sophie books by Dick King-Smith

Find something you love reading aloud - she'll enjoy it more if you enjoy it too.

My 6 has recently loved being read-
Harriet Hamster Princess series (not at all twee & very funny despite the title!)
Ickabog
Ivy and Bean (my older kids stop what they're doing so they can listen too)
Harry Potter
AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh
Her siblings read her comic books like HiLo & Castronauts
Lots of picture books & poems too

At this age, we would read together every day for a while. I would read a paragraph, then dd would. Or if she was tired, she would just follow over my shoulder reading what I was reading. Sometimes I would stop and say what do you think will happen next? Do you like this character? What do you think that word means?
Sometimes she enjoyed just reading the speech parts of the book and I read the bits in between.

Secret Diary of Pig books!

I think you are using the right approach and I say that as a mum of a child your age who was way behind in reading and comprehension. The more I tried to get him to read the more stressful it was for both of us. Giving him back a love of stories by me reading so he wanted to see what happened next really helped. Reading to him helped remove all the pressure from him - when they struggle with reading so much at that age they know they are behind their classmates which can hugely impact on them.

If you want to try something to help her practice reading then I found Reading Eggs to be brilliant.

@Londonmummy66

Re your recommendation, Jean Plaidy young Elizabeth / young Mary.. which one is best to read first?
And I have had a quick look on Amazon they seem very second hand. Was yours a new copy? Perhaps there are some around. My DD would be v in to this I think, but she is certainty one to judge a book by it's cover! and disregard it as too 'old fashioned'.

Yay to Naughty Little Sister, Pippi Longstocking and Milly Molly Mandy. Another oldie which is much enjoyed by that age range is Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Store. It is dated (originally written in 1950s/60s) but that could add to the comprehension discussions about what a shilling is etc.

Storr, not Store!

Not sure if this has already been said but my six year old loves Amelia Fang