I haven’t been keeping track of our summer books, but might as well jump right back in. I’ve stepped up Little Boy’s reading lessons. For the last month, each week I choose a simple, Pre-K to K level book. I choose about a dozen words from the word list in the back, mostly sight words and other basic ones. I make a weekly word list for us, and each day LB reads them to me. I also have him write them out on lined paper.
After a month of this, I can feel he’s getting a little burned out on weekly word lists, so this week I made a poster of all the words we’ve done so far to review. At first he was intimidated by the amount of words covering the poster, but he was pleasantly surprised that he could read so many so easily. Now we’re playing word games with the poster, picking out words to form sentences and finding words that look the same but sound different.
Today we’re hitting the library for a fresh stack, but these are the ones we’ve had for the past week:
1. Dino School: Meet Teddy Rex by Bonnie Williams
2. Frank and the Tiger by Dev Ross
3. Time to Eat by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
4. Just Say Boo by Susan Hood
5. Fancy Nancy: Fancy Day in Room 1-A by Jane O’Connor
6. True or False Mammals by Melvin and Gilda Berger
7. Ride, Fly Guy, Ride! by Tedd Arnold
8. Stop Thief! by Adam J. B. Lane
9. Go to Sleep, Dear Dragon by Margaret Hillert
10. Is That the Orange Cat? by Joanne Meier
11. Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems
12. Lucky and Squash by Jeanne Birdsall
13. Heebie-Jeebie Jamboree by Mary Ann Fraser
14. Light Up the Night by Jean Reidy
15. Moo Hoo by Candace Ryan
16. Halloween Drawing Book by Ralph Masiello
UPDATE: Fresh stack for this week…
1. Goosebumps: Wanted the Haunted Mask by R. L. Stine
2. The Monster Show (Everything You Never Knew About Monsters) by Charise Mericle Harper
3. Surfer Chick by Kristy Dempsey
4. Little Bea and the Snowy Day by Daniel Roode
5. The Scariest Thing of All by Debi Gliori
6. George Flies South by Simon James
7. One of a Kind by Ariel S. Winter
8. Owl and Wormy: Friends All Aflutter by Andy Runton
9. Beach Feet by Kiyomi Konagaya
10. Kindergators: Hands Off, Harry! by Rosemary Wells
11. The Dancing Clock by Steve Metzger
12. Sophie’s Fish by A. E. Cannon
13. Mittens, Where Is Max? by Lola M. Schaefer
14. Wonder Woman: The Arrival by Nina Jaffe
15. Watch Out, William! by Kady Macdonald Denton
16. Dixie by Grace Gilman
17. Balls by Melanie Davis Jones
18. Dick and Jane Jump and Run
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