And of central importance for multilingual children:
Does the book correspond to the reading age of the child?
Every publisher uses different criteria to recommend a book for an age group, but these recommendations apply to monolingual children.
Here are some examples of what children should be able to read at what age or what is assumed for monolingual children:
Reading goals year 1:
The child should correctly recognize and pronounce all German letters and sounds: AZ, umlauts (Ö, Ä, Ü), compound letters: Äu, Eu, Ei, Ie, St, Sp, Ch, Sch.
Monolingual children of this age can commonly read and write simple words and short stories
Reading goals year 2:
Children of this age can read and share a short book. They manage to find specific information in short texts
Reading goals year 3:
At this age, children come into contact with various children’s book authors and learn to comment on what they have read. You can usually read word-for-word and across lines.
Reading goals year 4:
Monolingual children of this age manage to read age-appropriate texts in a meaningful way and have acquired various text indexing methods.
You can obtain information from different media.
Children of this age have also learned to understand word, sentence and text structures