I have an older 1st grader who likes Magic Treehouse, but prefers Junie B Jones, Ivy and Bean, Dog Man, and her favorite Dory Fantasmagory.

I really like the Scholastic Branches books too. Graphic novels are great for this age too. I particularly like Hilo.

She looked at some Beverly Cleary, but I think they are a little long for her. Same with Judy Blume.

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Anonymous wrote:Do a lot of first graders read magic treehouse on their own? Seems fairly advanced.

Are you kidding?

No, I am not kidding. I normally think of those as second grade readers.

I agree. While I don't think it's highly unusual for a first grader to be reading them I think most don't have the "endurance" quite yet, particularly at the beginning of the year.

My now 6yo 1st grader(late birthday) is making his way through them - or I should say we are. He doesn't have any trouble reading them in terms of their level but he also doesn't have the attention span or endurance to do it so we read it together where I read a page and then he reads a page. I don't think he was at this level at the beginning of the year - his reading would have been more "choppy" and slow and the story would be lost.

Another series of books that we have found that is on a similar level or maybe slightly lower is "Nate the Great" - we are also reading this series together.

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Anonymous wrote:I had one kid reading Magic Treehouse by himself in preschool (he taught himself to read--we never tried teaching it and he went to a crunchy play-based co-op for preschool) and one who couldn't until second grade. The later one had perfect Reading SOL scores in 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and super high iReady scores and any other reading assessments. Some kids read early some kids read late and it is not really predictive of where they will end up.

Ok, what is your point? The request was for other books kids who read the magic treehouse might like. Do you have any suggestions?

Apologies, Thread Police. I was responding to the side conversation about whether it is typical for kids to read Magic Treehouse independently at this age. Some do, some don't.

My kids liked My Weird School, Baseball Card Adventures, Boxcar Children (I think that is what it was?) round the same time they read Magic Treehouse.

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Anonymous wrote:Do a lot of first graders read magic treehouse on their own? Seems fairly advanced.

Are you kidding?

No, I am not kidding. I normally think of those as second grade readers.

My second grader is reading Dragon Masters right now, she's not interested in Magic Treehouse for some reason but agree that it's more at the 2nd grade level for independent reading. I imagine a lot of the first grade moms are reading this book WITH their kids.

Anonymous wrote:I had one kid reading Magic Treehouse by himself in preschool (he taught himself to read--we never tried teaching it and he went to a crunchy play-based co-op for preschool) and one who couldn't until second grade. The later one had perfect Reading SOL scores in 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and super high iReady scores and any other reading assessments. Some kids read early some kids read late and it is not really predictive of where they will end up.

Ok, what is your point? The request was for other books kids who read the magic treehouse might like. Do you have any suggestions?

Narwhal and Jelly or catstronauts- they are graphic novels but have some harder vocab

Definitely the I Survived series.

Anonymous wrote:Time Warp Trio
Cam Jansen
Flat Stanley
McBroom books by Sid Fleischman
Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Agree with all of these. These are basically where my kids went after Magic Treehouse.

I had one kid reading Magic Treehouse by himself in preschool (he taught himself to read--we never tried teaching it and he went to a crunchy play-based co-op for preschool) and one who couldn't until second grade. The later one had perfect Reading SOL scores in 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and super high iReady scores and any other reading assessments. Some kids read early some kids read late and it is not really predictive of where they will end up.