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[quote=Anonymous]Both my kids were early advanced readers.  They could both "read" anything they were given before kindergarten--but that doesn't mean they could fully comprehend it or were interested in it.

What I found worked: They both read non-fiction on topics of interest at higher grade reading levels but fiction was more at their social/emotional level. There is so much great non-fiction, so anything they expressed interest in I would just go to the library and get a stack--one was big on animals/biology/oceans and the other more on space, buildings, vehicles etc. But I would get out random non-fiction too to see what sparked. Lots of good pictures is still a huge draw when they are young so don't go for dry texts just because they can read them.

For fiction, we found that picture books have that parents typically read to young children often have more complex language and structure than the series chapter books like Captain Underpants, Magic Treehouse and the like.  So we also just got stacks of picture books (the Arthur ones were esp. popular with both kids). They burned through the usual series chapter books on school library visits once in K.  DD also really liked Ivy+Bean, Dragonbreath and the Penderwicks in K.  All of those were short series that I think were well-written. Sometimes they read emotionally too old, like I think  DS liked to show off a bit by checking out and carrying around the big Harry Potter books and so he read that series too early (in K-1, though I stopped him before book 5).

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