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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d decouple your reading to her and her reading to herself. She’ll read, and it doesn’t really matter if it is next month or at the start of first grade. What she could lose is the love of words and reading because learning to read is a slog for some kids (my son and I are both dyslexic, so I know of what I speak). Read out loud to her (or let her listen to audiobooks) all the wonderful things that are at her cognitive level but beyond her reading level. Open doors for her she can’t open on her own. Plan to keep doing that for as long as she’ll let you - I read out loud to my son until he was 11 or so, just like my dad did for me.

When my son was in K I read him the first three Harry Potters, then took a break till he was in 2nd for the next few. After Potter we went through all the Percy Jackson books. He wasn’t a fan of the old classics I had loved so I didn’t push it - the point was to have him love the experience of reading.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks for the Harry Potter rec -- I was wondering when might be a good time to start those. I think she might find them a bit to scary still, but good to know some K kids do well with them and I could read them when she seems ready for the content.

I'm not terribly worried about her losing a love of books or words -- she's obsessed with reading and loves books. But I actually think right now our reading to her and her reading practice are too decoupled -- she has her books that she memorizes and reads (mostly her Bob books) and then she has the books we read to her (a broad variety) that she doesn't engage with as much outside of our read-together times. We'd like some books that we could read to her but also that she might spend more time with when we aren't reading, to help her start to put that together a bit. Not with pressure, but just to passively make that connection in her own mind.[/quote]

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