Reading Books for a 3 Year old

[JoolsTwo]

Could someone suggest suitable books for my 3 year old grandson. Something to get him started on reading. I'm not sure what sort of books they use these days. My 2 both had Ladybird books and were both reading well before they started school. He loves books so I thought it would be a good thing to get him started on reading.

[tenrec]

Just read any book to him. My grandaughter (19 year old) reads Charles Dickens to her 9 month old younger sister and the little one chuckles and gurgles the whole time.

[DTCwordfan]

Head to a bookshop, there are loads of beautiful books for this age and its a delight to go through them.

My girls loved "Guess How much I love you" ----I f you are reading it, be prepared to have to do it time and time over. "The Hungry Caterpillar" Eric Carle was also another favourite and wonderful illustrations (get the big books - they are more "dramatic" for this age.

[ojread2]

It can be different books for different schools and it depends on what teaching method of letters and sounds they use

Widely read in most schools though are the Biff ans Chip books
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/
http://www.oup.com/ox...gtree/resources/biff/

They start with pictures and use the characters in a long list of stories

HTH

[JoolsTwo]

Thanks for your answers.

We do read to him all the time from lots of diferent books, even the news paper on occasions. so do his parents and he has lots of book for us to read to him. It was the books to start him reading that I was interested in. As I said we started our 2 on Janet and John books from around 3 years and they were both reading before they started school. As that was nearly 40 years ago I knew thaSt the books would have changed. I'll have a look for the biff and chip books ojread2. Thanks very much.

[mrsweasley]

just logged on-i loved the janet and john books and the numbers 11/12ish adventure reading ladybirds....ahh, the memories lol

[redcrx]

our primary uses the Biff and Chip books and i recently bought my daughter (3) a set of 12 books up to level 4a of flash cards and a soft toy for about £20 in costco.

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation this looks like a great set to start with too

[erin-x]

Does he already know his letters and sounds, recognising and speaking them? That is where you want to start off. In schools around here they don't usually start looking at learning phonetics until primary one. You can get really good phonetics cards that are really easy to follow. We use 'Read, Write Inc.' in the school but i'm sure you can buy them for yourself.

[JoolsTwo]

Thanks redcrx and erin-x - I'll look out for those and mrsweasley - Yes I loved them too so did the children........so long ago now though. :-))

[ojread2]

Be careful about 'teaching' letters and sounds though. How you teach him to say letters may be different to school and you may confuse him
Certainly in England they start reading and letters etc in reception

Best of Luck

[sophie_1003]

If you want to go down the phonics route (which is the official route schools use) then any of the previous suggestions are great. I would say though that at 3 it's just good enough to make sure he enjoys the books that you already share with him and maybe start pointing out certain words which are easy to read phonetically and encourage him to join in; pointing to the words as you go along, asking him what sound individual letters make etc. Also; interestingly although phonics is seen as the best way for children to learn to read, some research shows that children who have a knowledge of the alphabet and know the letter names are at an advantage in terms of learning to read to those who don't.

[nungate]

Start off reading to him, get him interested in books, I used to love reading to my daughter and look forward to reading to my grandchildren - if I am lucky enough to have any. We loved reading the Little Bear books by Marting Waddell "Can't you sleep little bear?" was the first one, and the Jolly Postman books by Janet and Allen Ahlberg are also good fun as there is lots of little bits and pieces included in the book to involve the little ones in the action.

[Anngel123]

Going on a bear hunt.....classic.

[Chaffinch]

The Hungry Caterpillar, it was my daughters favorite, she could read it herself well before she started school, and she still loves it now and shes 20!!!!

[erin-x]

The first book I ever read myself was a Bangers and Mash one.. Wiggly Worms I think it was called :)

[nungate]

Further to what I said earlier Janet and Allen Ahlberg did lots of fabulous books for little ones - I still remember word for word the content of one Each, peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb..................that's almost 20 years ago now, the other favourite was Peepo, my daughter always joined in
with the Peepo's (still does when we dust the bookshelves!) We wouldn't part with any of these books

[NOX]

I must admit that we went the route of older fashioned books for teaching our kids, after we looked at and compared what's being used in schools now with the sort of thing the older kids had when they were little, or indeed ourselves. There seemed to be a far wider vocabulary used, and to be honest the books just seemed more fun.

[DaisyNonna]

The Hungry Caterpillar. The Gruffalo.