My daughter is doing well with her sounding out. Sometimes, she does try to guess still, but when I ask her to figure out the sounds she does sound out the words. I have discovered though that with the harder level books, there are expressions and vocabulary with which she is not familiar. The vocabulary issues become evident to me when I can see that she is saying the right sounds but still can't seem to piece the word together. I have been wondering as a result if I should get some books for vocabulary building, to catch her vocabulary up with her reading level. The other option is to let this happen more naturally and keep explaining the words, helping her to build her vocabulary as we read. It is only the occasional word, though. One example that I recall was "parental" as in "parental permission." Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I don't want to push her too hard, but I do want to help her grow by appropriately challenging her.
Btw, the expressions to which I referred above are actually "idioms." I did a search on idioms and went through a few with my daughter, such as letting the cat of the bag, and in the doghouse. She knew the one about something smelling fishy, so that was a good example for her.
Also, it is ironic to me that the school is sending my daughter home with books like Biscuit Goes to School, which are so incredibly easy for my daughter that they seem hardly worth it. I wonder how much of it is teacher assigned, though, versus the teacher letting her pick her own books. At home we have been working on the Diary of Wimpy Kids, which is a 5th grade level. We also read, Pinkalicious, Purplelicious, Silverlicious, and some other books, which are 2nd grade level and higher.
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