Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 13:50     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Anonymous wrote:Your son reads Dog Man, you read DCUM. We all read crap for fun. This is a non-issue.


Spoken like someone who has never read Dog Man! Dog Man is waaaay better than DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 13:38     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Try Captain underpants, cat kid, Garfield comics and Dragon Masters
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 03:00     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Just let him, but offer other books too and see if he gets interested. I also might start a book at bedtime and he might continue reading at night and get into it.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 01:02     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Anonymous wrote:My wife once yelled at my first grade son and he started to cry and said Lil' Petey's mom was so much nicer and why can't my wife be like her.

What I am saying is, you'll have to ask him why dogman means so much to him.



Between the potty himor there's some really beautiful stories about choosing to forgive your enemies, power of choices, and the importance of kindness. I was reading the newest cat kid comic club book and there is this entire poem about how
your perspective affects your life. It was actually
really lovely

Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 00:58     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Anonymous wrote:In my experience, the best thing is to make the books you want your kids to read be read-aloud books (or, lacking time on your part, a runner-up is to use audiobooks). You can either use a few chapters to get a kid interested in a book, which totally works sometimes, or simply read the more complicated books as read-alouds so that he still gets more complicated stories.

So he reads Dogman 1,000 times while you read Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Henry Huggins, Charlotte's Web, whatever. Sometimes maybe he gets into it and you turn the read-aloud over. Sometimes he just wants you to read, and that's fine. Sometimes Audible reads, and that's fine too.


This is my advice as well. My kid is deep into dork diaries but she is reading other books with me. We all have our share of comfort reads
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 20:44     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Your son reads Dog Man, you read DCUM. We all read crap for fun. This is a non-issue.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2024 09:28     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Ha, this was us last year and I posted something similar. My first grader read and re-read the same graphic novels dozens of times. Everyone said to just relax and not push it, but after a solid 9-12 months of the SAME BOOKS OVER AND OVER I bribed DC into reading the first book of a chapter series they were interested in, and voila, problem solved. Once they got into the series, they were hooked and lost interest in their graphic novels. All that to say that I don't think they were ready to read the series at the beginning of that 9-12 month period. But by the end they definitely just needed a push.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2024 09:03     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
We let DC read picture books & comic books but gradually added higher level books/chapter books to read.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 19:30     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
Take him to the library. Our library has an entire graphic novel section for children. There are many options.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 19:12     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
My wife once yelled at my first grade son and he started to cry and said Lil' Petey's mom was so much nicer and why can't my wife be like her.

What I am saying is, you'll have to ask him why dogman means so much to him.

Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 18:33     Subject: Re:1st grader only wants to read dogman
Really, dog man is a really good book series, but I think it’s for 2nd graders, but, Let him or she read any books he or she wants! (Except inappropriate books)
Anonymous
Post 04/30/2020 08:30     Subject: 1st grader only wants to read dogman
The lunch lady books are great as well.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2020 13:00     Subject: Re:1st grader only wants to read dogman
07:53 PP here. Yes, I hope parents remember that picture books are great reading for early elementary kids, especially those with high reading abilities. Sometimes we get so focused on kids reading chapter books that we forget the appeal of pictures.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2020 07:10     Subject: Re:1st grader only wants to read dogman
Anonymous wrote:This post made me laugh because my 13 year old DS with HFA still gets "stuck" and wants to read the same books over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea. He has gone through several different phases. Luckily, he has passed through the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phase (almost, he still crams them sometimes) and is into the Harry Potter phase. Here are some books that he loved in early elementary:
- The Gilbert Series by Diane deGroat
- Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
- Horrible Harry books
- The Magic Finger, the Enormous Crocodile, and Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl (his shorter books)
- The Irving and Muktuk Series by Daniel Pinkwater
- Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith and The Chocolate Tough by Patrick Catling

Don't be worried about letting him read picture books. There are some wonderful ones written at a higher level. Has he read these?
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Ugly Duckling
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- The Story About Ping
- The Little Match Girl
- Sarah's Story


+1 on many of these books. Think about the Lexile rating for a moment. The dog man Series has a lexile rating in the upper 300s. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, for instance, has a lexile rating of 700. Even the Doctor Seuss Lucky book as a lexile rating of 640.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2020 07:06     Subject: Re:1st grader only wants to read dogman
Anonymous wrote:This post made me laugh because my 13 year old DS with HFA still gets "stuck" and wants to read the same books over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea. He has gone through several different phases. Luckily, he has passed through the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phase (almost, he still crams them sometimes) and is into the Harry Potter phase. Here are some books that he loved in early elementary:
- The Gilbert Series by Diane deGroat
- Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
- Horrible Harry books
- The Magic Finger, the Enormous Crocodile, and Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl (his shorter books)
- The Irving and Muktuk Series by Daniel Pinkwater
- Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith and The Chocolate Tough by Patrick Catling

Don't be worried about letting him read picture books. There are some wonderful ones written at a higher level. Has he read these?
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Ugly Duckling
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- The Story About Ping
- The Little Match Girl
- Sarah's Story