Oh man! My six year old was started reading those fairy books when she was done with all the junie b jones books. There are way too many if them and she likes to re-read again and again her favorites! I have taken them, hidden them and I have tried forbidding them. They hey found, or borrowed and they WONT go away! She is just finishing first grade. She receieved an end of year DRA of 38. She was assessed by the reading specialist at her public school. At that level, she had to produce a writing response to her reading to demonstrate understanding.
Anyway, I have no idea how she went from a DRA at the end of kinder to a DRA 38 ending first when all she does is read those stupid fairy books!
When she was three and four, I knew she could read but would only read one page to me and quit. She also would not fill in words that I knew she knew. The less I worried about her reading, the more she picked up a book. I let her read anything she wants. I even let her try Hunget Games. She read twelve chapters before she decided the book wasn't for her.
Op. You dd sounds like mine did at that age. Some of her refusal to read to me was just pure obtinance, but upon entering kinder, we found she wasn't tracking and needed glasses for convergance. She also needed six months of vision therapy.
Good luck!
