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for the 2 to 3 year olds who are beginning to read, I would feel more comfortable going whole language and focusing on the the love of literature rather than doing the little decodable books. Do you mean to imply that parents can't do both? If we were to work on skills, I'd be working on their phonemic awareness using rhyming books and games. From what I've seen, reading builds confidence in reading in a way that listening and playing games cannot. YMMV.
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This is just my personal take but I believe that 20% to 25% of the population needs a systematic and direct decoding instruction to obtain fluency but that doesn't mean that everyone else won't benefit from direct instruction and it's helpful for their spelling too. I disagree. DD entered K reading at a 3rd/4th grade level and DS will surely be reading better than this when he enters. DD was given no instruction; DS watched some reading shows on TV and we had some BOB books, but that was it. Neither needs/needed any instruction in how to read by K and for DD, it was maddening and frustrating. (DS is not in K yet but I'm sure he will also find it so.) She has never missed a word on a spelling test in her life (and never studied for one). DS appears to be a less natural speller, but even so, I don't think reading instruction is the key. Spelling instruction, sure.
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Works for me!
Someone here said it helped their kid enter school reading at a seventh grade level. It has my 5 yr. reading great. He read 3 chapters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (gr. 5.9) in the 30 minute drive on the way to his basketball game. In our case that did not happen overnight but the lessons in the video game worked out well.
Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, or if it has already been mentioned, but I highly recommend Starfall.com. DS started there at about 3.5 and loved it. They are very simple stories but there is a bit of animation to them and the stories appealed to my DS.
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for the 2 to 3 year olds who are beginning to read, I would feel more comfortable going whole language and focusing on the the love of literature rather than doing the little decodable books. Do you mean to imply that parents can't do both? If we were to work on skills, I'd be working on their phonemic awareness using rhyming books and games. From what I've seen, reading builds confidence in reading in a way that listening and playing games cannot. YMMV. I agree. We, like Ultramarina, used some basic exposure to phonemic awareness (Between the Lions, Bob-style books, Leap-pad/Reader Rabbit, but nothing more, really.) When they are ready, they are ready... and once they start reading, they tend to figure out a lot on their own. Once they have a strategy of attack, I mean-- whether that is a whole language, hybrid, or phonemic strategy. DD is purely phonemic, or at least was.
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DS was a fluent whole word reader from 2 and seemed to absorb words by being read to. He was never interested in early readers or reading eggs (found it too repetitive) but loved books like Pamela Allen Mr McGee books which are fun, rhyming and use similar words. We kept reading above level books to him and he would read on whenever I paused for too long. He loved non fiction books too and the Usborne beginner series he could read too (from animals to castles to space etc). For him decoding came around 4 but he has such a large vocab his educated guesses before that were usually right. Just keep reading a variety of easy to above level and see what is enjoyed 
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DS2.11 has been "reading" since shortly before 2.5. We have no idea how much he can actually read because he has significant speech delay but we know he can read a lot. He doesn't do it much in front of us but we hear him quite often when he's alone. The last month or so he has really started liking children's books on Kindle. He likes to listen to the stories being read to him and then tries it by himself. He is one of those "learn by osmosis" kids. He won't allow us to teach him anything. He has been recently diagnosed with High functioning autism (big part in it plays the speech delay) but we are still questioning it and are looking into possible Apraxia of speech. So it's really hard to tell what his reading level is, we just know he can read.
but aside from Starfall that has already been mentioned (and they have nice apps for Kindle as well as Android), if you have a Kindle, the children's stories might be good. We use a subscription to Kindle Free Time where for $2.99/ we get an unlimited access to a lot of apps and books that we would otherwise have to pay for.
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An early reader series that is enjoyable for the parents too is the Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. My DD (age 4) still adores them although her skills are far beyond that reading level now. The library had most of them. Now the 2 year old is addicted :-)
As far as keeping their interest in trying to read, I liked to alternate pages where she reads then I read. Or, have her pick a character to read, like a play. If she really wasn't in the mood, I'd read aloud myself.
I do worry about how much the teachers can differentiate their instruction in K, I guess we'll see...
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Thank you to everyone for the responses!
MegMeg & JonLaw- thanks for the reality check. I rarely (if ever) compare her to her age-mates. I mostly read on here to see what other kids her age are doing. Her Montessori doesn’t even know she’s close to reading. I heard the teacher talking to a mom of a 5 year old about how he did a “word wheel”. Although the teachers have commented on how good she is with “math”/counting, she is what they call an active observer. Meaning she does nothing but stand and watch other kids do works. So basically she doesn’t do anything for the 2 hours she is there. Not sure what to make of that.
Bobbie, Mk13, and Mana - your kiddos are examples of why I am skewed a little with thinking 3yrs 1mo isn’t as young as most kids on here. While DD could read some “words” at 2, she definitely couldn’t read out of new, never-seen, books as she is now
HowlerKarma- Now I’m Reading sounds great! Though I tried to order what I think her level would be (level 1) and it seems like it’s not available… I may try the Library or our local kids bookstore.
CCN- writing the story could be fun! I may even get her to dictate a story to me and we pick together words she has memorize or can decode. She would love something like that.
LaTexican- I’ll try the readingeggs to see if DD is interested, thanks!
Eibbed- We were very recently gifted the “starfall” first reader books and she LOVES them. She thinks they are funny and likes how she can read the whole book without help. I just downloaded the app and DD started using her finger (like I do) and read by herself without me pointing (I have been pointing for her). The only issue was while she was pointing the word she was pointing to kept popping up and reading for her. It drove her a little crazy but I think she will get used to it.
Moonjunio- We have the Piggie books! She used to love them when she was really little… great idea to pull them out now!!
Daytripper75- These look great! There are some that I can print for free on the link you posted… thank you!
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