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I got a set of BOB books out of the library the other day, but dd3 really knows these already, memorized mostly, but I do see her eyes flicking to the text from time to time to refresh her memory..(?) I think she saw them at her aunt's house.
I was wondering what other books in that very-short format are out there for a kid like this, a few site words under her belt, penchant for memorizing short books, especially rhyming ones, knows a good chunk of the letter sounds as well.

Also, curious when folks would call a reader a reader? I think this was discussed before but I couldn't find the thread. She is able to point out many more words than she is interested in reading at this point, so does she know those, or is she guessing based on the first couple of letters? (I say, 'can you find the word frog? truck? dog?' and she points them out)
She enjoys that game, but she often just wants the story to flow, so I just plain read a lot to her, of course.
(We have checked out starfall.com, and that is very cool/fun for her.)

I guess i'm not too familiar with the BOB books, but the DK readers are nice, and have several levels. How 'bout good old dr. seuss? hop on pop, one fish, two fish, etc. Sandra Boynton books?

I'll see if I can find the reader thread, but I considered my DS a reader when he could read something new (not possibly memorized) and without context (no pictures). I would say your DD definitely is showing signs of early reading, even if she's just guessing based on the first letters.

Here's one of the reading threads: http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/31776/1.html

After BOB, we started level one easy readers. These "We Both Read" books were a hit and we found them at the library.

http://www.webothread.com/server/TreasureBay/website/main/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=15

Great, thanks Pauli - that's the thread I remembered and couldn't find.
I have just been reading along for a while not pushing the 'get her to read' too much, but then the other day at target, dd-then-2 said, 'Mommy, that red octagon says 'STOP'!'. I thought, oh, well, maybe I'll try to let her show me what else she knows at this point. So far I've been kind of surprised. I thought she was just going to plug along on letters until she had all 26 exactly perfect and then start reading short words, but (duh!) of course it probably doesn't work that neatly...
Oh, and we have a lot of Boyton, she probably has those memorized too but I will see if she wants to read a bit herself... for some reason Seuss has not appealed much to her, but maybe it's time to try again.

Inky - Thanks for the readers link, they look like she'd really enjoy them!

Oh - if she's into signs, this was a hit with DS (I got it right before he really took off with the reading): I Read Signs

Not much for dialogue but DS loved that he could "read" a whole book by himself.

My son loved the "Brand New Readers" series when he just knew a few sight words. We found them at the bookstore but they also have them at the library. Some are really funny. DS especially enjoyed the ones about a worm. Each book has a little intro that the parent reads which sets the child up to independently read the rest of the book. They are short and cute! I'll see if I can find a link to them.

The link is www.brandnewreaders.com

There are many sets of Bob Books; did you get all of them or just Set 1? Set 1 begins with (I think) Mat and ends with The Vet, which is book 12. Set 2 is very slightly more advanced than Set 1 and has 10 or 12 books. Each set gets a bit harder to read. Set 5 uses silent e. Most of the stories are very good; some are kind of lame (in particular, The King in set 5 doesn't seem to make much sense).

The publishers came out with some pre-reading books recently, but these books don't use the same stepwise approach that the five original sets use.

Val

Yeah, that. We Both Read books are the greatest. I like being able to read my part without DD jumping in & trying to read it, and DD likes to have her own part that's not too hard.

DD never got into the BOB books. But there are a LOT of great first readers at our library. You might just go & browse.

Cool, thanks for all the ideas! I got only 2 sets (big books) with 4 books in each, from the Bob series. I thought she had seen only 1 or 2 of the little books so I was surprised she knew so much of it. Sounds like there are more than I knew, so I will add those to the list, thanks!