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Education is a Process, Not a Destination
Jan. 3, 2008
The Bear's first chapter book!
The Bear just finished A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla. It took him five reading days. When he was first shown the book, he cried bitterly because he didn't think he could read a book with so few pictures, but he quickly brightened upon discovering that it was exciting and easy, both.
He had DH reread the part he'd read each day, and he even had me reread again one of his favorite sections after DH had reread it. Now he's asked that we read the entire thing to him, at one go--he'd been warned that it will probably take two days rather than one, but he's still quite happy about it.
We'll be taking a break between each of our chapter books to do a day of picture books. I expect this pattern will continue for a number of years yet. Picture books are their own genre and aren't just for kids who can't read chapter books yet. There are, in fact, some really fabulous picture books written at the middle school level--Diane Stanley's work comes immediately to mind. |
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Jan. 13, 2008 - You are right!
In fact in the publishing world there is a genre called picture story books, like the folk tales that have 2-3 paragraphs of more complex language on each page. Those take 30 minutes for an adult to read aloud. Those are nothing like the one sentence per page type of picture books.
I'm a HS weekly reporter too.
Have a great day.
ChristineMM of thethinkingmother.blogspot.com