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Reply to "How to get boy past "diary of a wimpy kid" into more substantial books?"
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[quote=Anonymous]It's important to rehearse reading in order to get faster. I've seen lots of cases where parents require "serious" books, and it backfires: it just convinces the kid that reading is a chore. The learn-to-read literature supports the idea that it is fine to read at a simpler level: what he is doing is building reading speed. If you read slowly, things do not happen fast enough to keep you interested in the plot. I would agree that reading to him is also good - it builds the vocabulary and sentence comprehension for later. Non-fiction is good, especially the kinds of books you can dip into (Guinness Book of World Records is popular for that stage, for example).[/quote]
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