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[quote=Anonymous]In school they read Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach, Charlottes Webb, Holes, The Giver, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Number the Stars, The Family Under the Bridge. On their own my daughter likes graphic novels especially girly ones. My son loves comic series like Dilbert, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, The Boondocks and has been reading them since 2nd grade. Can’t think of more recent ones. Comic series like Calvin and Hobbes and others actually improve an elementary school reader’s vocabulary. An article sampled some of the words used in Calvin and Hobbes. Some are repartee, vicarious, peripatetic, magnanimous, deferential, salubrious, arboreal, behemoth, annihilated, aspersions. It’s easy for kids to read these over and over and just read random ones and eventually they learn the big words. [/quote]
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