My DS (will be 7 in May), has been doing leveled readers. We checked out a bunch of level 2 books from the library in the late fall, and then kind of reverted to him being read to instead of reading himself. We picked the books back up this week and he flies through them. He’s intimidated by longer books, but he got a Cat Kid book for the holidays, so we’ll encourage that.

My first grader will sit and read through all of a Press Start book, or sit with me and read picture books to me. He also has roughly leveled readers he brings home. He does fine with books like Katie Woo, but the non fiction can be a lot harder.

I think reading is one of those skills where it might feel like no progress is being made for a long time, and then you experience a big jump almost all at once.

My kiddo is reading at a 3rd grade level and won't stop reading. I didn't know kids could read too much but we need him stop in order to come up for air and interact with people. What do we do? He's into Dogman and Dragon Master books.

Oh god

Mine is in second, but I can speak to last year for my advanced reader. It was all graphic novels all the time. Dog Man, Wings of Fire, Babysitter's Club, etc. Like PP, she could read a chapter book, but aside from early readers like Dragon Masters, she didn't have the stamina and comprehension to actually do it. This year she loves chapter books, but also likes to go back to her graphic novels for easy brain candy. Last year a few of her friends were reading real chapter books, but most were doing or graduating from leveled readers and getting into easy graphic novels by the end of first. This year most are still on graphic novels so far in the year.

I posted in the other thread. My somewhat dyslexic 1st grader can read most of Frog and Toad with me helping with 10% of the words. That qualifies him at grade level in the middle of 1st grade. He is the lowest level reader in his class. Most of the other kids do short chapter books like magic treehouse. One kid is very high level. I don't think they all have great comprehension but those are the books I see them check out.

My first grader tested 75th percentile in the fall for reading. She can read a lot of sight words, had great phonetic awareness, and can read level 1 books pretty well. Chapter books are too intimidating right now. The most she will want to read aloud to me is about 3 paragraphs, then she is just too tired to continue.

Age and birth order makes huge difference OP.

My current 1st grader is reading simple chapter books like Half Magic. He also reads a lot of Dog Man graphic novels and Who would Win. He’s above grade level - but he also turned 7 in November and has an older brother which adds to the availability of books at higher reading levels.

My older child is identified as gifted and was reading things like Step into Reading Level 1 and 2 books in 1st grade. He turned 7 in July after 1st grade. He also had remote school for all of 1st grade and I used “Teach your child to read in 100 lessons” when covid ended kindergarten for him in March and he was just starting to sound out CVC words.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Sure but does she understand them? I seriously doubt it.

Some kids read them and do. One of mine did. The other read them later. There’s a huge range of reading ability at that age.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Sure but does she understand them? I seriously doubt it.

Of course even the religious connotations

Anonymous wrote:Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Sure but does she understand them? I seriously doubt it.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Lol this person is trolling and/or obnoxious. This is not normal for 1st grade.

DP. When my niece was in first grade, she read at that level.
My kids didn't.

Anonymous wrote:Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Lol this person is trolling and/or obnoxious. This is not normal for 1st grade.

Mine has devoured all the Harry Potter books so far this year

Building off another post, how well does your 1st grader read at this point in the year? Is he/she reading fluently? What's normal for this time of year? Like other posters, my kid's teacher says she's on grade level, but I'm not clear what that means.