reading level

[cimorene]

I am far too used to children of above average verbal intelligence. I can never guess in advance when the daycare kids're too young for a book because it seems to ME that a one-year-old could sit through and understand What Do You Say, Dear? - it's only, what, like, 20 sentences! But I tried to read it to a four-year-old today who couldn't stay still all the way through an explanation of what "How do you do?" means. The class in general, with a couple of exceptions, like, don't want to be read to, only to look at the pictures and move on! o_O They're BABY PLEBES!

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[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

We had the same problem in our family. After me and my two middle siblings who liked being read to, our youngest brother was absolutely impossible about books. He had zero attention span and no interest in stories. The only thing he wanted us to read was a segment in a Janosch book that had a poop joke in it. That was somehow endlessly funny, every time.