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[quote=Anonymous][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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Thanks, we also read “better” books. But she also gets to pick books and I don’t judge the books she chooses— I don’t want to discourage her interest or make her think that some books aren’t good enough. I read a mix of literary fiction, nonfiction, and genre— I don’t see why she shouldn’t have the same freedom to choose between high low brow.

I will say that for someone who is starting to read, it really is beneficial to read the same books over and over. She has them memorized and then will look at them on her own and apply her memory of what the words are to her new understanding of phonetics and she’s learned a bunch of challenging words this way. It’s how she moved from cvc and ends with e words that always follow the rules to more challenging words with more complex letter combos. She can’t do that with the chapter books we read because they are too long and wordy to memorize or re-read. And she doesn’t find picture books engaging enough for that at this age. But stuff like PiB, Mia Mayhem, Magic Treehouse, etc.? They are perfect for this because they are the perfect length for memorization and rereading, and kids tend to get obsessed with them and turn to them over and over.[/quote]

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