Kellogg's Korner

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Summer is over and the new school year is in full swing. The mornings are starting off with the “I don’t feel well” and “My tummy hurts”, and the day ends with “But I am not tired”. The TV goes out for home work and the youngest does not understand what her sister can not play right now. All things are as they should be.

This year they have told Angel to read at least twenty minutes a day and write about what she read. About a month ago I was talking about reading with our girls. We started her off on the book series called “Magic Tree House.” Starting it somewhere in the middle, we had picked up a book that my Wife thought was interesting, “A Good Night for Ghosts.” The series, by Mary Pope Osborne, is about two children and a time traveling tree house.

We started off reading the book to her at night. Since then she has picked up another “magic Tree House book” at the school library and has been reading it herself. It feels great to watch her reading on her own like that.

Although the “Magic Tree House” was not the first book she tried to pick up and read on her own. She had picked up a book that was well beyond her current reading level, because it looked neat. It was a book for the “Warriors” series. These are books about cat clans and their wars. It was a set I was looking at the other day in the book store. That is when my wife pointed out the age level signs on the shelves at the books store, and brought both of us over to the books that were written for her age.

Maybe schools should take this idea into their libraries. She was upset when she was unable to read the book herself. If the school library, lick the books store and some public libraries, labeled the books with suggested age levels, or organized them in age range categories, we would not have had to console her with the fact that the book, though it might be good and enjoyable, was just to hard for her to read right now.

All that aside, I love to see my child reading and enjoying stories the way I did when I was younger. I remember being part of the Book-it club and reading to get free personal pan pizzas. I wonder if they still have that program. I will have to look into that, because I love to see her read and she loves pizza.

Read a book with your kids. It is fun.

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