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[quote=Anonymous]My 1st grader is in the most advanced reading group in her class. Her fluency and phonemic awareness is very good -- she can read pretty much anything. Like yes, she could read a passage from a Harry Potter book and would understand it.

But her reading stamina is still limited. Like if she read from a Harry Potter book, reading a couple paragraphs would tire her out. But she could read a Princess in Black book cover to cover without a problem.

Recently she's become obsessed with a bunch of the Scholastic early reader series -- Unicorn Academy, the Rainbow Magic books about fairies. They are about the same level as Dragon Masters or Magic Treehouse, but she doesn't enjoy those books as much. She still gets tired reading them and often what we do is trade off reading chapters, or trade pages.

I do think this stage is hard because she's so close to being essentially independent, but she really has to build that stamina. So for me it's all about just finding books she's really excited about because that's what gets her to push through a bit even when she's tired. It's like exercise -- find something really fun that will help you push a little harder even when your tired, then you get better and the next time it's easier.[/quote]

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