. I love it, love it, love it! I had my daughter read it in 2nd grade. I just pinned something on pinterest that was titles something like, "the 100 greatest children's chapter books. Google that and you will have a great list, many of which will be appropriate. I also think the American Girl books are a good idea. I loved them from about 2nd to 4th grade.
You just described me at 7, and my DD9 pretty much perfectly, right down to the bad handwriting. I had the only kid in 3 year old preschool who went Into the details of photosynthesis when talking about plants, and the one who blew the whole Santa, Easter Bunny bit for other kids with her logical "that's just not possible" before I could stop her. My mom says I was worse.Thank you guys so much!!! So many great ideas, and you are bringing back memories of some books I had long forgotten. I'm going to make a list of all the suggestions and save it to my computer. Kemorr, I think I will try to push DD to try Little House. If I can coax her into reading the first chapter, I do think she would like them.
DD stops at the Kingdom keepers books everytime she passes them in the book store. I haven't read them, but from what I've heard about them, I think they will be too scary for her, so I haven't let her read them.
We do go to the library quite a bit. We did have a librarian that was very helpful, but unfortunately we haven't seen her in several months, so I don't think she works there anymore. The 2 that are usually there now when we go aren't that helpful when you ask for suggestions. They pretty much either take her over to the Junie B. Jones books- which she read almost all of in kindergarten and at the start of 1st grade- or they take her to the section of the library for readers from 2nd to 6th grade, and basically say that "anything here is your level" so just roam around for something that interests you. When we needed 1 more award winner for her to get her 3rd reading olympics medal for the year, I asked for a suggestion for one to read and got zero help other than to be told to walk around the shelves and that they have put stickers on the binders of some of the award winners so look for the stickers.
Texasteacher35, based on my DD, I don't think it sounds ridiculous that your son reads on a 10th grade level and comprehends at a 7th to 8th grade level. In fact, it makes me think I can probably learn a lot from you! I haven't found anything that DD can't read yet. She clearly doesn't have any trouble at all with 5th or 6th grade level books- which is the highest we've tried. Our school district is odd because they won't test her reading level above the end of the 3rd grade (I'm sure it probably has to do with accomodations they would have to make or funding), but they will G/T test in general. At the beginning of 1st grade based on G/T testing they told us she tested "through the roof" and her mental age was supposedly 11.8 years old- we've known since she was a baby she was probably G/T, but she definitely tested higher than we expected and I will take that result with a grain of salt since it was just one test. One of the reasons she has always been on the sensitive side and I have to be careful about the reading material, tv, the news etc. is that her comprehension is really high so she understands the implications of what she is reading or seeing. I'm dealing with a kid with a mental age that comprehends some pretty serious stuff, but an emotional age of a 7 year old that flips out because she understands it. Our big issues are writing and coordination. Her writing is terrible-it is slowly improving though. The 1st grade teacher thinks that part of that is her mind races so fast with too many ideas to get down on the paper. She says where a lot of kids just want to write one or two sentences when asked to answer a question or write something about what they have read- DD basically wants to write a book which then leads to her basically scribbling all over the place to try to fit it in. Her G/T teacher says it isn't uncommon for kids like her to have bad writing and be uncoordinated because they spend so much time in their head and the physical can take a while to catch up! My DD is like your DS, in that at least she still plays along that she believes the characters are real at WDW and DL ( and also in that she is an independent thinker and won't be pushed or swayed by other kids on things). It's funny because this is the kid who at age 3 after a visit to the science museum to DH and my surprise called her Grandma and excitedly said "We saw a guy in an Easter Bunny suit and a guy in a dinosaur suit". It is only the Disney characters that are real and only the ones at WDW and DL specifically- she knows the ones in the touring ice shows and live shows are actors- and she also believes that some of the ones in certain shows at WDW and DL aren't real and are just actors acting out the stories. I think it is "selective reality". I still believe in Disney characters, dont you?
Thank you guys so much!!! So many great ideas, and you are bringing back memories of some books I had long forgotten. I'm going to make a list of all the suggestions and save it to my computer. Kemorr, I think I will try to push DD to try Little House. If I can coax her into reading the first chapter, I do think she would like them.
DD stops at the Kingdom keepers books everytime she passes them in the book store. I haven't read them, but from what I've heard about them, I think they will be too scary for her, so I haven't let her read them.
We do go to the library quite a bit. We did have a librarian that was very helpful, but unfortunately we haven't seen her in several months, so I don't think she works there anymore. The 2 that are usually there now when we go aren't that helpful when you ask for suggestions. They pretty much either take her over to the Junie B. Jones books- which she read almost all of in kindergarten and at the start of 1st grade- or they take her to the section of the library for readers from 2nd to 6th grade, and basically say that "anything here is your level" so just roam around for something that interests you. When we needed 1 more award winner for her to get her 3rd reading olympics medal for the year, I asked for a suggestion for one to read and got zero help other than to be told to walk around the shelves and that they have put stickers on the binders of some of the award winners so look for the stickers.
Texasteacher35, based on my DD, I don't think it sounds ridiculous that your son reads on a 10th grade level and comprehends at a 7th to 8th grade level. In fact, it makes me think I can probably learn a lot from you! I haven't found anything that DD can't read yet. She clearly doesn't have any trouble at all with 5th or 6th grade level books- which is the highest we've tried. Our school district is odd because they won't test her reading level above the end of the 3rd grade (I'm sure it probably has to do with accomodations they would have to make or funding), but they will G/T test in general. At the beginning of 1st grade based on G/T testing they told us she tested "through the roof" and her mental age was supposedly 11.8 years old- we've known since she was a baby she was probably G/T, but she definitely tested higher than we expected and I will take that result with a grain of salt since it was just one test. One of the reasons she has always been on the sensitive side and I have to be careful about the reading material, tv, the news etc. is that her comprehension is really high so she understands the implications of what she is reading or seeing. I'm dealing with a kid with a mental age that comprehends some pretty serious stuff, but an emotional age of a 7 year old that flips out because she understands it. Our big issues are writing and coordination. Her writing is terrible-it is slowly improving though. The 1st grade teacher thinks that part of that is her mind races so fast with too many ideas to get down on the paper. She says where a lot of kids just want to write one or two sentences when asked to answer a question or write something about what they have read- DD basically wants to write a book which then leads to her basically scribbling all over the place to try to fit it in. Her G/T teacher says it isn't uncommon for kids like her to have bad writing and be uncoordinated because they spend so much time in their head and the physical can take a while to catch up! My DD is like your DS, in that at least she still plays along that she believes the characters are real at WDW and DL ( and also in that she is an independent thinker and won't be pushed or swayed by other kids on things). It's funny because this is the kid who at age 3 after a visit to the science museum to DH and my surprise called her Grandma and excitedly said "We saw a guy in an Easter Bunny suit and a guy in a dinosaur suit". It is only the Disney characters that are real and only the ones at WDW and DL specifically- she knows the ones in the touring ice shows and live shows are actors- and she also believes that some of the ones in certain shows at WDW and DL aren't real and are just actors acting out the stories. I think it is "selective reality". I still believe in Disney characters, dont you?
