Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 20:16     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Ivy & Bean
Frannie K Stein
Zapata Power
Cam Jansen
Henry and Mudge
Flat Stanley

Plus LOTS of picture books. She still loves good picture books even now, two years later, when she's reading Harry Potter solo. Picture books can get great, even as they get older.

Non-fiction, too. Loved the Book of Why and Book of Who at that age. And all sorts of Weird But True books, too.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:46     Subject: Re:What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Magic Tree House in K, then Magic School Bus in 1. Charlotte's Web.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:46     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Flatfoot Fox, Magic tree house.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:44     Subject: Re:What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
1st grade DD is currently reading Matilda.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:43     Subject: Re:What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
My old set of Hardy Boys books.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:41     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
The first and second Harry Potter in first grade, for DS.

DD can barely decode at the same age. Oh well. She'll get there.




Please do not have your child read anything like Harry Potter at that age. So many parents act like that is some badge of honor. Putting aside the fact that a child would miss a tremendous amount of the text, the child also then doesn't read picture books, which is how some wonderful vocabulary is gained. My second grader, who is an advanced reader (DRA of 28 at the end of first grade, which is as high as they test for that grade), just read a picture book last night that had "eye of the storm," "barometric pressure," etc.


Was it Freddy the Frogcaster?! My Kindergartener loves that book.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 19:21     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Anonymous wrote:
The first and second Harry Potter in first grade, for DS.

DD can barely decode at the same age. Oh well. She'll get there.




Please do not have your child read anything like Harry Potter at that age. So many parents act like that is some badge of honor. Putting aside the fact that a child would miss a tremendous amount of the text, the child also then doesn't read picture books, which is how some wonderful vocabulary is gained. My second grader, who is an advanced reader (DRA of 28 at the end of first grade, which is as high as they test for that grade), just read a picture book last night that had "eye of the storm," "barometric pressure," etc.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 18:43     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
You can search by that reading level. Use the "guided reading" search. Search for books from a couple of levels below and above (so for I, search F through K).

http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:29     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself

The first and second Harry Potter in first grade, for DS.

DD can barely decode at the same age. Oh well. She'll get there.


Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:27     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Try using the Scholastic Book Wizard - level I should be about DRA 16 (end of first grade).

DRA levels: http://www.riverview.wednet.edu/curric/elemglance/readingbenchmark/DRA-BookLevelChart.pdf

Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/

It's ok to have some books be too easy (for comprehension/fluency) and others be more difficult and you can read together.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:24     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
My son's a "J" level reader and likes Henry and Mudge, Frog and Toad, Mr. Putter and Tabby.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:17     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
You can find some book levels on Scholastic Book Wizard, but they're not always accurate. If her instructional reading level is I, that is the level she can read with some support. It's a little challenging, but just the right challenge for her to develop. For independent reading, you want a book that is a little easier. She'll understand it without help and read more fluently with practice at her independent level.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:08     Subject: Re:What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Big Nate. Magic Treehouse.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 17:01     Subject: Re:What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
Ask your kid's teacher or a librarian.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2016 16:57     Subject: What Books Can Your K'er/1st Grader Read by Him/Herself
DD is in K and is doing those leveled reading books and is at level I (somewhere along 1st grade reading). But I never know what that translates into in "real" books that we could get from the library. I either pick too young or too old.

What can you Kindergartener or 1st grader read by him or herself?

thanks!