As I’ve mentioned several times before, my daughter has been learning how to read in English at school and coming home and transferring what she’s learning into Spanish. Although we have tons of books in Spanish at home, we don’t really have a lot of books for early readers. I’m not a huge fan of translations and so I’ve kind of stayed away from those, so I was curious to see what Scholastic Club Leo‘s Paquete Amigos Favoritos — a set of three books specifically for children who are just learning how to read — was all about.
The packet includes the following titles:
- Clifford y los dinosaurios
- Hombre mosca conoce a chica mosca
- Bizcocho sale a pasear
Whenever I get more than one book, I don’t like to give them to my daughter all at once because she won’t concentrate on each one individually. This time was no exception. So I decided to give her the last one on the list above: Bizcocho sale a pasear.
I never imagined that she’d be so happy to get it, but it turns out that she’s seen and read other books from the series from her school’s library. In English, they’re called Biscuit and she couldn’t believe I’d gotten a version in Spanish. I’m not sure why it was, but she was simply ecstatic that she recognized the character and that she was able to read in Spanish a book with which she is familiar in English.
She was able to read the whole book all by herself even though it does contain a few difficult words such as simpático and revolcarse. She didn’t really get them the first time around, but that’s because she wants to read faster than what she currently can. She loves the book so much that she offers to read it to anybody willing to listen!
Just last week, I gave her the Hombre mosca conoce a chica mosca and although she didn’t recognize it, she has been really excited about reading it because it’s divided into chapters. Go figure!
I plan on giving her the Clifford one tomorrow. I’m sure she’ll love it too because we already have a few of these in Spanish.
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We read any time during the day… and ALWAYS at bed time! I sparked my sons interest for reading with a few online websites and books of his favorite characters, science/boys stuff… now he even LOVES to read food nutrition facts
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We promote reading in English and Spanish as part of our bedtime routine.
Every night before bed we read to my son. He knows mami reads in spanish and daddy reads en ingles!
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I have made sure that my son was read to and now with every day. Since beginning to teach him Spanish, we now check out books from the library with Spanish/English words. This helps him to learn both languages. We go to our local library almost every week to find new books to read.
Our 4 and a half year old daughter has a bookcase full of books on her bedroom, and everynight she chooses to read 1-2 books. When she wakes up (and if it is early than us) we encourage to “read” some books while we “waking up”. She has a Library card and every week we visit the library to attend a “story book time” in Spanish, and after the story we always return the previously borrowed books and get new ones! She loves to read, and we are very happy supporting her =)
I buy bilingual and spanish book from Scholastic Club Leo since my daughter was 3 and entered a dual language Montessori PreK. But her first Spanish books came courtesy of my parents from Mexico. They were Spanish fables or fabulas. I also buy bilingual books from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jorge El Curioso, The Good Night bunny, etc. and used to buy some from Borders but they closed all the Borders in the Chicagoland area and we no longer have a local bookstore. So now it’s off to the Library for us. We are lucky we live in a very multi-cultural suburban neighborhood with a high % of latinos. I recently read the Barack Obama book, Los Sueños de mi Padre, and read excerpts to my daughter, who found it fascinating to hear about his trip as a young adult to Africa to understand his paternal roots.
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When we visit my brother in Tijuana, I buy reading books in Spanish. I even got her a read along tool. Its so fabulous. Thank you:)
We promote reading by reading as a family in the evenings.
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We promote reading by reading in the morning, before nap and before bed. We read our own books and we go to the library. We read in English and in Spanish. We just read
We read books everyday switching between English & Spanish.
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As my children are getting older and learning more English they still prefer story time, movies, DVD’s, music to be in spanish.
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We go to storytime each and every week along with reading books many times a day!
We read everyday at home and go to the library often. I think that because my husband an I read allot, my son is used to read too.
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We live about a mile from the public library and walk there at least once a week to find new books to read.
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We read to the the kids every night (and during the day). We are a two-language family (English and Spanish) so these books would be AMAZING for our collection. Thanks for the chance to own them!
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My daughter has loads of books and we read together daily. We also go to the library at least once a week and attend the story time there. And, I read in front of my daughter a lot, which has prompted her to pick up a book and “read” along with me.
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We have tons of books for my daughter and read with her and she also “reads” by herself. She sees me reading, and we go to the story time at the library.
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