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[quote=Anonymous]I think you should differentiate the books you read to her versus the ones she learns to read.  The ones she starts learning to read need to be so simple, that she would most likely memorize them instead of reading them.

Keep focusing on sounding out words. The Bob books are really good for this, as they’re decodable readers. The first ones ate deadly dull, but as more letters are added, they get better quickly. If she knows all the letters and their sounds, she might zoom through the early ones, or even skip to the ones that t are more interesting.

“No, David!” was a book my kids enjoyed reading at that age. The text consists of “No, David!” as rough illustrations show David running from one source of trouble to another.  (In one scene you see him running away from his bath, naked.)

Another technique, is if the child is learning a letter combination, the parent can read the story and let the child read the words with that combination. For instance, when my kids learned “igh”, we read a picture book together called “Night” that included words like night, light, etc.

As for reading to her, read whatever she enjoys.  Picture books and chapter books are all great. I would just avoid reading the easy reader books to her, so that they’ll be fresh and interesting for her to read. 
My kids enjoyed:
Nursery Rhymes
Fairy Tales
Picture books, especially silly ones
the Quiltmaker  books by Jeff Brumbeau - text heavy picture books with gorgeous illustrations 
Princess Tales series by Gail Carson Levine
Flat Stanley chapter books
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (chapter book)
My Father’s Dragon (chapter book) - I found this one a bit dull[/quote]

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