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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're a better parent than me - I would never read the same book multiple times!!!

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As a reading teacher, I encourage you to read books multiple times to your kids if they ask. It's very important for their literacy skills and can help them become life long readers![/quote]

PP you replied to. Hmm - my kids are now 17 and 12, they're bookworms and have no problem with literacy :-) Princess in Black and Treehouse are trash books, and there was no way on earth I was going to read more than one to my kids. I read copiously to them throughout preschool and elementary school, but GOOD books: Winnie-the-Pooh, the Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, the Redwall series, a lot of lesser-known older classics, myths, fairy and folk tales. When you're reading to your kids, you can punch way above their reading level, and pause to explain vocab, character motivation, etc. And if they're learning to read, they can totally decipher a few words, then a few sentences of those higher-level books. This is what kids used to do in past generations, before the explosion of easy readers and kiddie fast fiction.

It's really nice of you, OP, to re-read her favorite books, which I suppose is a comfort thing at bedtime, but if PIB is coming out of your ears, you can always try to tempt her with new-to-her, better, stories.

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