Can you share your reading lists...

[Hot Lava Mama]

For sixth grade and fourth grade. I'm interested in an actual list of books read, as opposed to "these are good books for 6th and 4th grade". (Does that make sense?) I am trying to get a grip on how many/what kind of books to get through for the entire year. My goal is to put a list together that says, "read these......and be done by the end of the year."

 

Can you help?

Hot Lava Mama

[patchfire]

Dd is an advanced reader; her list of books from fourth grade can found on my blog, to give you some idea. I essentially required one book per week, for 35 weeks; the 36th week was poetry, for which we used the Oxford book listed as well as a few books from the Poetry for Young People series.

 

HTH!

[mcconnellboys]

Books to go along with medieval studies? Or just books in general?

 

Here's what my son read for history/lit during the first semester of this year:

 

Roman Myths, Geraldine McCaughrean

Magic in the Mist, Margaret Kimmel

Young Arthur, Robert San Souci

Lancelot, Hudson Talbott

Perceval, John Perkins

Merlin and the Making of the King, Margaret Hodges

Brother Wolf of Gubbio, Colony Santiago (very simple)

Saint Francis, Brian Wildsmith (very simple)

The Holy Twins, Benedict and Scholastica, Tomie de Paola (very simple)

The Man Who Loved Books, Jean Fritz

By His Own Might, The Battles of Beowulf, Dorothy Hosford

Usborne Tales of King Arthur, Felicity Brooks

Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish, Morgan Llywelyn

In the Heart of the Village, The World of the Indian Banyan Tree, Barbara Bash (very simple)

The Broken Tusk, Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha, Uma Krishnaswami

Sinbad the Sailor, retold by Stephanie Laslett

Muhammad, Demi (very simple)

Augustine the Farmer's Boy of Tagaste, P. DeZeeuw

Drabne of Dole, Bernard Evslin (pre-read any of his works)

The Door in the Wall, Marguerite De Angeli

The Girl who Drew a Phoenix, Demi (very simple)

The Boy who Painted Dragons, Demi (very simple)

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Stephanie Laslett

The Boy who Drew Cats, Margaret Hodges

The Crane Wife, Odds Bodkin (very simple)

In the Moonlight Mist, Daniel San Souci (very simple)

Mysterious Tales of Japan, Rafe Martin

The Beautiful Butterfly, Judy Sierra (very simple)

Three Golden Oranges, Reg Cartwright (very simple)

Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain, Virginia Haviland

The Sword in the Tree, Clyde Robert Bulla

Favorite Medieval Tales, Mary Pope Osborne

Puss in Boots, Charles Perrault (retold by Malcolm Arthur) (very simple)

Toads and Diamonds, Perrault (retold by Charlotte Huck) (very simple)

Fairy Tales from Perrault (trans. Ann Lawrence)

Usborne Stories from Around the World

Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France, Virginia Haviland

DK Great Adventures (read throughout year; stories appropriate to time period under study)

Leif the Lucky, D'Aulaires

Favorite Norse Myths, Mary Pope Osborne

The Viking News, Rachel Wright

Fafnir, Bernard Evslin (see above warning)

Viking Adventure, Clyde Bulla

You Wouldn't Want to be a Viking Explorer! Voyages You'd Rather not Make, Andrew Langley

D'Aulaires Book of Trolls

Odin's Family, Myths of the Vikings, Neil Philip

D'Aulaires Norse Myths

Brendan the Navigator, Jean Fritz

History Dudes: Vikings, Laura Buller

Baldur and the Mistletoe, Margaret Hodges

The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman

The Minstrel in the Tower, Gloria Skurzynski

Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges

Till Year's Good End: A Calendar of Medieval Labors, W. Nikola-Lisa (very simple)

A Medieval Feast, Aliki (very simple)

The Tower of London, Leonard E. Fisher (very simple)

Saint George and the Dragon, Geraldine McCaughrean (very simple; beautiful artwork)

The Reluctant Dragon, Ernest Shepard

The Making of a Knight, Patrick O'Brien

The Samurai's Daughter, Robert D. San Souci (very simple)

In the Time of Knights, Shelley Tanaka

The Usborne Official Knight's Handbook

Sword of the Samurai, Eric Kimmel (very simple)

The Secret History of Giants

Knights of the Kitchen Table, Jon Scieszka

If You Lived in the Days of the Knights, Ann McGovern

Days of the Knights, Christopher Maynard

The Saracen Maid, Leon Garfield (pretty simple)

Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam, Diane Stanley (simple)

El Cid, Geraldine McCaughrean (simple)

Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page, Richard Platt

The Canterbury Tales, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Truth about Castles, Gillian Clements

The Hunter, Mary Casanova (very simple)

The Legend of Robin Hood, Dami Editore

Bestiary, Jonathan Hunt (very simple)

Chingis Khan, Demi (very simple)

Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu, Emily McCully (simple)

Marco Polo, Demi (very simple)

The Adventures of Marco Polo, Russell Freedman

Samurai Castle, Fiona MacDonald, et al (Inside Story)

 

Many stories related to our time period from the Bronze Cauldron, G. McCaughrean

Ditto for The Silver Treasure and The Crystal Pool (all by her)

 

He's also read time period appropriate stories from another series including titles such as Cities of Splendour.

 

And here are the books ds has read this semester. (If you want the rest, contact me again when school is over......)

 

(These are basically in SOTW order, by the way):

 

Russian Fairy Tales, translator Marie Ponsot (this is an oversize, Golden Book, with gorgeous illustrations)

 

The White Stag, Kate Seredy

 

The Beggars' Bible, Louise A. Vernon

 

History Opens Windows: The Middle Ages, Jane Shuter

 

The Black Death, Great Disasters, James Day

 

Up the Chimney, Margaret Hodges

 

Joan of Arc, Diane Stanley

...and another by Josephine Poole (very simple)

...and another by Margaret Hodges (The Lilly Maid)

 

Fire, Bed, and Bone, Henrietta Branford (set during the Wat Tyler rebellion)

 

Don Quixote and the Windmills, Eric Kimmel (very simple)

 

Isabella of Castile, Queen on Horseback, Joann Burch

 

Don Quixote, retold by Michael Harrison

 

Mansa Musa, Khephra Burns (very simple)

 

Traveling Man, the Journey of Ibn Batuta, James Rumford (very simple)

 

The Benin Kingdom of West Africa, John Peffer-Engels

 

Sundiata, Lion King of Mali, David Wisniewski (very simple)

 

West African Kingdoms, Julie Nelson

 

Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled, Milton Meltzer

I also use his Ten Queens book. These can be used with different time periods and contain good bios, but you do need to pre-read them first!

 

The Asante Kingdom, Carol Thompson

 

City-states of the Swahili Coast, Wilson

 

Great Illustrated Classics: Kidnapped (Stevenson) very simple text, perhaps too simple, LOL!

 

Premlata and the Festival of Lights, Rumer Godden (very simple)

 

Sacred River, Ted Lewin (very simple)

 

The Golden Deer, Margaret Hodges

 

Exploring the World: Magellan, Michael Burgan

 

The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus, Jean Fritz

 

Columbus, D'Aulaires

 

Hands of the Maya, Villagers at Work and Play, Rachel Crandell (very simple)

 

Land of the five Suns, Kay McManus (looking at Aztec myths and legends)

 

Ship, Macaulay

 

The Aztecs, History Starts Here! Anita Ganeri

 

Gutenberg, Leonard E. Fisher (very simple)

 

Breaking into Print, Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press, Stephen Krensky (I think this was simple....)

 

Michelangelo, Diane Stanley

 

Introducing Michelangelo, Robin Richmond

 

Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch, Nancy Willard

 

The Squishiness of Things, Marc Kompaneyets (also about Bosch)

 

Galileo, Leonard E. Fisher (very simple)

 

Leonardo's Horse, Jean Fritz

 

Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World, Paul Maier (I think this was simple.....)

[NanceXToo]

Ours is pretty long! We read a lot here. But here's my book log so far this year for my 9 y/o fourth grader (and this is from July 1, 2009 through now as our 'school year' goes from 7/1 to 6/30 as far as what I turn in to my school district is concerned).

 

I broke it down into a list of "silent reading" (books she read on her own for fun), and "readalouds" (books we read aloud together, either her to me, me to her, or taking turns). The ones we read together are a combination of ones we read for fun, ones that were assigned via our Oak Meadow curriculum, and ones we did for supplemental reading as part of doing SOTW Vol. 1, which we work on over the summer.

 

Silent Reading

Accidents May Happen, Fifty Inventions Discovered By Mistake

All That Glitters (Avalon series)

Bakugan Official Handbook

Chinese Fairy Tales

Chocolate Fever

Cry of the Wolf (Avalon series)

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw

Disney's My Side Of The Story, Sleeping Beauty/Maleficent

Don't Bump The Glump! and Other Fantasies by Shel Silverstein

Eve Of The Emperor Penguin (a Magic Tree House book)

Fairies and Elves

Favorite Tales, The Princess and the Pea

Felicity Learns A Lesson (American Girl)

Free To Be You And Me

From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Gus The Greedy Puppy

How To Train Your Dragon

Jess, American Girl Today

Jewish Fairy Tales

Josefina Learns A Lesson (American Girl)

Josefina's Surprise (American Girl)

Karen's Two Families (a Baby-Sitters Little Sister book)

Meet Felicity (American Girl)

Meet Josefina (American Girl)

Mistakes That Worked

Monster of the Month Club

Monsters In The Attic

Monsters In Cyberspace

Monsters And My One True Love

My Dog Ate My Homework (poems)

Pippi Goes On Board

Pippi In The South Seas

Pippi Longstocking

Race Of The Year (a Choose Your Own Adventure book)

Season Of The Sandstorms (a Magic Tree House book)

Sheepdog In The Snow (an Animal Ark book)

Silly Things Happen

The Bailey School Kids Joke Book

The Doll People

The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle & Other Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things

The Little Mermaid and Other Stories

The Magic Schoolbus Gets All Dried Up

The Magic Schoolbus Makes A Rainbow

The Magic Schoolbus Gets Baked In A Cake

The Meanest Doll in The World

The Secret of the Unicorn (Avalon series)

The Zombie Zone (A To Z Mysteries)

What The Moon Brought

Read Alouds

Abu Ali, Three Tales of the Middle East

A Child’s Guide To Economics, How To Turn Lemons Into Money

Addie Across The Prairie

Addy Learns A Lesson (American Girl)

Addy Saves The Day (American Girl)

Addy's Surprise (American Girl)

A Family Apart (The Orphan Train Adventures #1)

A Historical Album of Pennsylvania (partially read, we focused on the colonization/Quakers)

A History Picture Book, The Thirteen Colonies

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Barack Obama, An American Story

Buffalo Bill & The Pony Express

Caught In The Act (The Orphan Train Adventures #2)

Changes For Addy (American Girl)

Cornerstones of Freedom, The California Gold Rush

Dance, Sing, Remember: A Celebration of Jewish Holidays

Daniel Boone (partially read)

Escape To Witch Mountain

Farmer Boy (Little House On The Prairie series)

Gilgamesh The King

God's People, Stories From The Old Testament

Happy Birthday, Addy (American Girl)

Heidi

If A Bus Could Talk, The Story Of Rosa Parks

If You Lived In Colonial Times

If You Traveled On The Underground Railroad

Insect World, Praying Mantises, Hungry Insect Heroes

In The Face Of Danger (The Orphan Train Adventures #3)

James Herriot’s Treasury For Children

Jupiter, A New True Book

Kids In Colonial Times

Little House On The Prairie (Little House On The Prairie series)

Meet Addy (American Girl)

Odin's Family, Myths of the Vikings

Once A Mouse...

One Grain Of Rice

On The Banks Of Plum Creek (Little House On The Prairie series)

Orphan Trains, Traveling West To A New Life

Pony Express!

Snowflake Bentley

Stuart Little

Ten Kings And the Worlds They Ruled (partial; we read the sections on Hammurabi and David)

The Ancient Near East

The Butter Battle Book (and others by Dr. Seuss)

The Coat Of Many Colors

The Last Quest of Gilgamesh

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)

The Little Brown Jay, A Tale From India

The Magic Schoolbus, Lost In The Solar System (a Magic Schoolbus book)

The Revenge of Ishtar

The Search For Delicious

The Sign Of The Beaver

The Story of Benjamin Franklin, Amazing American

The Story Of Harriet Tubman, The Conductor Of The Underground Railroad

The Trumpet Of The Swan

This Land Is Your Land, Pennsylvania

West By Covered Wagon, Retracing The Pioneer Trails

World Myths And Legends, Native American

 

 

(I also have a list in the back of my OM syllabus which is their "Supplemental Book Ideas For Fourth Graders" list; if you are interested in knowing what's on that list, just let me know) :)

[MicheleinMN]

It varies by child. I have a couple with dyslexia, one or two regular readers, and two who inhale books, so my list varies by child. Two of my children require I list the number of pages or chapters to be read. One elementary age child reads for a set amount of time because he does not dilly-dally while reading.

 

We do a more CM style of required reading each child reads from 2 books daily plus a Bible reading. Each book does not take the same amount of time, so I add in a new one when one of the 10 is done.

 

HTH

[mammaruss]

I have one in 4th grade now. His list of books that he has read is on my blog listed below.

[Hot Lava Mama]

So, the lists that were provided, your kids actually read all of those books in one year?! Really???!!! Oh, my. I guess we are behind the eight ball. I don't think "I" could read all of those in one year.

 

For example, "The Door in the Wall" is a long book. It would take my son several weeks to read that. Are my kids just really way behind and slow readers?

 

Now I am freaking! Is this typical (meaning the long lists read in one year???)

 

Hot Lava Mama

[KS_]

So, the lists that were provided, your kids actually read all of those books in one year?! Really???!!! Oh, my. I guess we are behind the eight ball. I don't think "I" could read all of those in one year.

 

For example, "The Door in the Wall" is a long book. It would take my son several weeks to read that. Are my kids just really way behind and slow readers?

 

Now I am freaking! Is this typical (meaning the long lists read in one year???)

 

Hot Lava Mama

 

I think it really depends on the child. My kids are voracious readers and I don't think I'd want to try to keep track of what/how many books they read in a year (maybe a month I could tackle, but not a whole year!) They will often read several books a night (if they are reading and not playing - dd, who will be in 4th, finished Mary Poppins Opens the Door last night, and I have no idea what else she was doing during that time).

 

But I really think some people are readers and some aren't - my dh is not a reader. The list of books he's read in his lifetime is very short. I think some of the love of reading can be cultivated (it wasn't when he was a child), but I also think it depends on learning styles, too. Dh is an audio/visual learner and just doesn't get as much out of a book as if he were to listen to it out loud.

[Heather in WI]

So, the lists that were provided, your kids actually read all of those books in one year?! Really???!!! Oh, my. I guess we are behind the eight ball. I don't think "I" could read all of those in one year.

 

For example, "The Door in the Wall" is a long book. It would take my son several weeks to read that. Are my kids just really way behind and slow readers?

 

Now I am freaking! Is this typical (meaning the long lists read in one year???)

 

 

I glanced through the lists above. Yes, Door in the Wall is longer, but The Revenge of Ishtar or The Little Brown Jay both could be read in about 15-20 minutes. I think the lists are completely reasonable.

 

Both my current 4th grader and 2nd grader read (to themselves), on average, 2 chapter books a week; one book for history literature and one for literature-literature, if that makes sense. History reading was first thing in the am, literature reading was last thing in the afternoon.

 

Here are the books both boys read for history (in addition to reading SOTW aloud as a group):

 

With Lee in Virginia

Anchor's Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut

Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad

Custer's Last Stand

America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks

The Good Fight: How WWII Was Won by Stephen Ambrose

Midway: Battle for the Pacific

Invasion: The Story of D-Day

The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

The US Frogmen of WWII

The War in Korea: 1950-1953

Americans into Orbit

Meet Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Breadwinner

Parvana's Journey

Children of the Storm

Home of the Brave

 

Here are some of the books my 4th grader read for literature:

 

Midshipman Hornblower

Lieutenant Hornblower

A Wrinkle in Time

Time Cat

The Saturdays

Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis

Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis

Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis

Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis

Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point

Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point

Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point

Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point

A Christmas Carol

Robinson Crusoe

Robin Hood

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Navy Blue and Gold

One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Number the Stars

The Diary of Anne Frank

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Anne of Green Gables

The Book of Three

The Black Cauldron

The Castle of Llyr

Taran Wanderer

The High King

Crispin

The Master Puppeteer

The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids

The Never Ending Story

The Sword in the Stone

Watership Down

The Black Stallion

The Twenty-One Balloons

 

Both kids read more than the books listed, but these are the only ones I have recorded. Honestly, it's hard to keep up with them sometimes. I have weeks on their schedules where I just write "Your pick" because I couldn't think of anything to have them read. On those weeks, they could pick from our home library.

Edited May 11, 2010 by Heather in WI

[Hot Lava Mama]

First of all...Thanks very much for taking the time to write your extensive lists. Wow. I am still sitting here stunned thinking that we really need to ramp up on the reading. My kids are reading chapter books, so I was thinking that the "number" of books that they would be reading would go down (like to about 10-15 books a year). But looking at the lists, some of the books like the Chronicles of Narnia and The Door in the wall are long books. So obviously, your books lists don't go down to much fewer in number.

 

But I guess my second question is "how" do you keep track of the books? Do you keep a list, or do you have your kids write down the list? Also, do you come up with a list at the beginning of the year (with additions as the year progresses) that you want them to read?

 

Thanks SOOOO much for your response. I really, really appreciate it when you take the time to respond so throughly!

Hot Lava Mama

:001_smile:

[AngieW in Texas]

These are just the books actually read by my kids. You'll see a huge difference in amount and quality between my middle dd (advanced and a fast reader) and my youngest (dyslexic). I didn't separate readers, readalouds, and history books until my oldest was in 8th grade and my middle was in 6th grade.

 

You should note that my dd has complete freedom to choose whatever she wants for her free reading time (was called her silent reading time when she used to have to read her assigned readers out loud to me). She doesn't read anything other than comic books outside of her free reading and assigned reading times. My middle dd typically read 2-4 novels for fun on top of what I required for school. My oldest was the same way.

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middle dd in 6th grade - advanced, fast reader

Jahanara (Lasky) - Royal Diary

Westmark (Alexander) - book club

Leyla: The Black Tulip (Croutier) - Girls of Many Lands, Turkey, 1720

Ben and Me (Lawson)

Ravenmaster's Secret (Woodruff) - set in 1735 at the Tower of London

Prince Across the Water (Yolen) - 1745-1746, attempts to restore Bonnie Prince Charlie to the throne

Carl Linnaeus (Anderson)

Stowaway

Catherine of Russia (Gregory) Royal Diary

Cabin Faced West (Fritz)

Marie Antoinette (Lasky) Royal Diary

Golden Hour (Williams)

Cecile: Gates of Gold (Casanova) set during the reign of Louis XIV

Court of the Stone Children (Cameron)

Dr Jenner and the Specked Monster - smallpox

George Washington, Spymaster (Allen)

Gate in the Wall (Howard) - industrial age in England

Saba (Kurtz) Girls of Many Lands1849 Ethiopia

Ivanhoe (Scott) - historical fiction written in 1800's about medieval times

Wishbone books - Journey to the Center of the Earth, Oliver Twist

Victoria (Kirwan) - England 1829, Royal Diary series

Elisabeth (Denenberg) - Austria-Hungary 1853, Royal Diary series

Spring Pearl (Yep) - Canton 1857, Girls of Many Lands series

Kazunomiya (Lasky) - Royal Diaries, Japan -1858

The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker (DeFelice) - set in 1849

Collected Short Stories (Tolstoy)

The Story of Florence Nightingale (Leighton)

Anna and the King (Landon)

The Good Master (Seredy) - Hungary

Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot (Gormley)

Wishbone - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)

The Illyrian Adventure (Alexander) - set in late 19th century Illyria

Kaiulani (White) - Royal Diaries, Hawaii 1889

Secret of the Ruby Ring (MacGrory) - Ireland 1885

Night Journey (Lasky) - Russian pogroms against Jews

Journey to the River Sea (Ibbotson) - early 1900's Amazon

Twenty-one Balloons (du Bois)

Angel on the Square (Whelan) - Russian Revolution

Impossible Journey (Whelan) - sequel to Angel on the Square+

Neela (Divakaruni) - Royal Diaries, India 19--

When My Name Was Keoko (Park) - Korea under Japanese occupation during WWII

Snow Treasure (McSwigan) - Norway, WWII

Escape from Warsaw (Serraillier) - Poland, WWII

Homeless Bird (Whelan) - modern India

Camel Rider (Mason) - modern day middle east

Chu Ju's House (Whelan) - modern day China

Breadwinner (Ellis) - Taliban

I Am David (Holm) - cold war eastern Europe

 

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youngest in 4th grade (dyslexic)

Hannah read these silently - the numbers after the books are Lexile levels

(aap#2) Kitten Crowd - 530

(aap#3) Rabbit Race - 480

(aap#4)Mouse Magic - 580

(ms#1) Can You Get an F in Lunch? - 640

(aap#6) Chick Challenge - 570

(aap#7) Pony Parade - 710

(aap#8) Guinea Pig Gang- 440

(aap#9) Gerbil Genius - 760

(aap#10) Duckling Diary - 500

(ms#2) Madame President

(ms#3) I Heard a Rumor

(aap#11)Lamb Lesson - 680

(aap#12) Doggy Dare - 580

(aap#13) Cat Craze - 540

(aap#15) Ferret Fun - 600

(aap#) Frog Friends - 730

(aap#) Pets Party - 540

(aap#) Spaniel Surprise

Rabbit Rescue (Costello)

Frightened Fawn (Costello)

Last Holiday Concert (Clements) - 800

No Talking (Clements) -

The World According to Kaley (Regan) - 910

The Princess and the Pirate

The Doll People (Martin) - 570

(ms#5)Cheat Sheet

(ms#4) The New Girl

(ms#6) P.S. I Like You

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Meanest Doll in the World - 690

(W#1) Into the Wilds - 790

(W#2) Fire and Ice - 810

(W#3) Forest of Secrets - 900

(W#4) Rising Storm - 890

(W#5) A Dangerous Path - 840

(W#6) The Darkest Hour - 880

 

out loud reading - Hannah to me, at least 4th grade level

Tucker's Countryside (Selden) - 750

Harry Cat's Pet Puppy (Selden) - ?

Runaway Rascal (Baglio) - ?

Cobra King of Kathmandu (Kerr) - 910

Day of the Djinn Warriors (Kerr) - ?

Demon in the Teahouse (Hoobler) - 660

In Darkness, Death (Hoobler) - 760

A Samurai Never Fears Death (Hoobler) - 800

Snake (Stone) - Five Ancestors book 3 - 700

Crane (Stone) - Five Ancestors book 4 - 770

 

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youngest dd in 6th grade

free reading -

Mysterious Benedict Society - Perilous Journey

Bluestar's Prophecy (Hunter)

Pillage (Skye)

Bran Hambric (Nation)

Mysterious Benedict Society - Prisoner's Dilemma

The Fourth Apprentice (Hunter)

Fablehaven (Mull)

The Lone Wolf (Lasky)

The Capture (Lasky) Guardians of Ga’hoole book 1

The Journey (Lasky) GoG bk 2

The Rescue (Lasky) GoG bk 3

The Siege (Lasky) GoG bk 4

Hunger Games (Collins)

Catching Fire (Collins)

The Shattering (Lasky) GoG bk 5

 

assigned reading

By the Great Horn Spoon

Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell)

Legend of Jimmy Spoon

Brady (Fritz)

Stolen Train (Ashley)

Behind Rebel Lines

Mary on Horseback

Letters from Rifka

The Terrible Wave

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

Helen Keller

Moonshiner’s Son

After the Dancing Days

Hero Over Here

Gone-Away Lake

Winged Watchman

Edited May 11, 2010 by AngieW in Texas

[AngieW in Texas]

I keep a running list in my word processor of all the books my kids read for school. I used to just list them all together, not separated by kid. Now I have a separate page for each kid. My formatting doesn't come through, but here's what my document looks like for this year:

 

Hannah 6th grade

 

free reading -

Mysterious Benedict Society - Perilous Journey Bluestar's Prophecy (Hunter)

Pillage (Skye) Bran Hambric (Nation)

Mysterious Benedict Society - Prisoner's Dilemma The Fourth Apprentice (Hunter)

Fablehaven (Mull) The Lone Wolf (Lasky)

The Capture (Lasky) Guardians of Ga’hoole book 1 The Journey (Lasky) GoG bk 2

The Rescue (Lasky) GoG bk 3 The Siege (Lasky) GoG bk 4

Hunger Games (Collins) Catching Fire (Collins)

The Shattering (Lasky) GoG bk 5

 

assigned reading

By the Great Horn Spoon Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell)

Legend of Jimmy Spoon Brady (Fritz)

Stolen Train (Ashley) Behind Rebel Lines

Mary on Horseback Letters from Rifka

The Terrible Wave The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

Helen Keller Moonshiner’s Son

After the Dancing Days Hero Over Here

Gone-Away Lake Winged Watchman

 

math

Singapore 5B chapter 2-5

Key to Fractions books 2- Key to Decimals books 1-

Key to Percents books 1- Key to Algebra books 1-

 

science

Prentice Hall Science Explorer Grade 6

 

language arts

http://www.spellingconnectionsonline.com 5th-6th grade proofreading

Sequential Spelling 2 (lessons 41-60) Spelling Power level E

Spelling Through Morphographs 1 (lessons 1-

 

history

Landmark History volume 2 Story of the USA books 3-4

Simon Bolivar Shoes for Everyone

Wilberforce American Adventures I

Photobiography of Abraham Lincoln The Monitor and the Merrimac

World Wars A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt

 

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Beth and Hannah

 

readalouds

Moccasin Trail - SL4

Lyddie

Perilous Road - SL4

Shades of Gray - SL4

Turn Homeward, Hannalee - SL4

The Great Turkey Walk - SL4

The Great Wheel - SL4

The Family Nobody Wanted (Doss)

Cheaper by the Dozen - SL4

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - SL4

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Beth 9th grade

readers

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Twain)

Call of the Wild (London) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

The Pearl (Steinbeck) Flowers for Algernon (Keyes)

Jane Eyre (Bronte) Alas, Babylon (Frank)

Anthem (Rand) Animal Farm (Orwell)

Looking Backward (Bellamy)

 

Short stories

Ransom of Red Chief Most Dangerous Game

Gift of the Magi The Necklace

Jury of Her Peers Pit and the Pendulum

Tell-Tale Heart Fall of the House of Usher

Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat

The Lottery Story of an Hour

Bartleby, the Scrivener A Blunder

Paul’s Case Two Kinds

Open Window

 

science

Holt Biology

Biology: The Science of Life

 

math

Jacobs Geometry, 3rd edition

 

language arts

Windows to the World

The Least You Should Know About English

US history-based writing lessons volume 2

 

history

American Vision

Dragon's Gate (Yep) The Staircase (Rinaldi)

No Promises in the Wind (Hunt) Parallel Journeys (Ayer)

Children of the River (Crew) The Contender (Lipsyte)

 

health

Lifetime Health

 

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind dvds from Teaching Company

Daniel Dennett, “Where Am I?” Brainstorms

Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1st and 2nd meditations

Daniel Dennett, “Nature of Images and the Introspective Trap”

Daniel Dennett, “Time and the Observer: the Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain"

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser (Irwin and Davis)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "The Blue Book"

Terrell Miedaner, "The Soul of Martha, a Beast"

Terrell Miedaner, "The Soul of Mark III Beast"

Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Gardner, Multiple Measures of Intelligence, ch 1-2

???, The Mismeasure of Man, ch 5

Does the center hold? : an introduction to Western philosophy by Donald Palmer

 

 

 

 

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Sarah 11th grade

 

literature/language arts

Windows to the World

Murder on the Orient Express

Great Gatsby

To Kill a Mockingbird *counted in 9th grade, so don’t count again for 11th

Brave New World

Jane Eyre

Cry, the Beloved Country

A Separate Peace

Alas, Babylon

1984

 

 

history

Visual History of the 20th Century

The Century for Young People

A Short History of the Twentieth Century

The Road from Home

All Quiet on the Western Front

Parallel Journeys

Red Scarf Girl

To Destroy You Is No Loss

 

science

Hewitt's Conceptual Physics chapters 1-12

Giancoli’s Physics chapters 10-

 

math

Larson's Precalculus: Functions and Graphs

 

Japanese I and II

ACC

 

Drawing I and II

ACC

[NanceXToo]

Don't panic :) Like someone else said, some of these are pretty short books that you can sit down and read in fifteen minutes or a half hour!

 

Others are longer and we read a chapter or two a day.

 

Some are ones she read to herself, others are ones I read TO her.

 

As for how I keep track, I keep a wordpad document on my computer saved as "booklog0910" (for 2009/2010 school yer) and every time she starts a book or I read one to or with her, I go and type the title into the wordpad document. And I update it as we go. Then at the end, it's ready to print and use for my portfolio.

[lauracolumbus]

My ds in 6th grade seems to read a lot, but I've never kept track. It's hard for me to imagine him reading this # of books. My youngest dd is in kindergarten and if I kept a list for her it would be very long as she reads a book day--either am early reader book or a picture book. Stone Fox took her 2 days.

 

Golden Goblet probably took ds 2 weeks and that's the typical length of the books he reads, so in a 52 week year, he'd be lucky to get in 26 books.

 

Laura

[NanceXToo]

Here in PA we legally HAVE to keep a log of reading materials used from the time the child is of compulsory school age (generally 8 y/o), so I don't have a choice lol. Otherwise I never would have bothered! But that list has got to be shown to my evaluator and to the superintendent of my school district.

 

Of course, for those purposes, especially if you're looking to bulk up a list (and even if you aren't) you can include things you use for resource/reference material, textbooks, periodicals like magazines and newspapers and so on, too. And again- some of these are much shorter books, and some are read-alouds- you can still count them all.

 

With my preschooler, I don't keep a list of his picture books or books I read to him other than to jot down the names of a few of his absolute favorites for looking back on: "Oh when you were four, these were a few of your favorite books!" kind of thing.

[Lizzie in Ma]

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Bambi by Felix Salten

Bullfinches Mythology: Age of Fable, Thomas Bullfinch

These are literature selections for the year that we study in depth, 3 per 12 week term.

 

The Chronicles of Narnia we are reading aloud as a family with the Family Guide to Narnia as morning devotions.

 

Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling

This is over 10 weeks using Beautiful Feets study guide

 

These are one per 12 week term

Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

By Pond and River, Arabella Buckley and Wildlife in Woods and Field, Arabella Buckley (shorter so we do both)

It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence Richards

 

Ancient History Reading List: About one per week for 36 weeks

selected chapter's from Famous Men of Rome, John H. Haaren,

selected chapter's from Famous Men of Greece, John H. Haaren,

Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula (selected chapters)

Olive Beaupre Miller’s History for Children Series:

Picturesque Tale of Progress: Beginnings I

Picturesque Tale of Progress: Beginnings II

Picturesque Tale of Progress: Conquests I

Picturesque Tale of Progress: Conquests II

Picturesque Tale of Progress: New Nations I

selected chapter's of Plutarch's Lives

selected chapter's from Our Young Folk’s Josephus, William S. Walsh

DK Eyewitness, Ancient Egypt

Zekmet the Stone Carver, Mary Stolz

Science in Ancient Egypt, Geraldine Woods

Ancient Egyptian Art, Susie Hodge

Growing Up in Ancient Greece, Chris Chelepi

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Lynn Curlee

The Lion in the Gateway; the Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae, Mary Renault

Three Greek Children: Alfred J. Church

Alexander, Jacob Abbott

Archimedes and the Door of Science, Jeanne Bendick

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, Kathryn Lasky

Hannibal, Jacob Abbott

In Search of a Homeland, Rosemary Sutcliff or The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Alfred Church

Romulus, Jacob Abbott

The Forgotten Daughter, Caroline Snedeker

Caesar’s Gallic War, Olivia Coolidge

Cleopatra, Diane Stanley

The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare

Audio -Ben Hur, Lew Wallace

Twice Freed, Patricia St John

Eagle of the Ninth and Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliffe

Masada, Neil Waldman

Augustine, Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste

White Stage, Kate Seredy

The Lantern Bearer’s, Rosemary Sutcliff

 

 

There are another 36 for American History , also one per week. I can't find my file and I don't keep track of what she reads for fun.

 

It isn't as bad as it looks. I do the spines as read alouds. And it is about 4 chapters in an Ancients book and 4 in an American history book per day. One of each per week. Some are shorter, some are longer, some, like the egyptian art book are just to look through and not really read.

About an hours reading a day and another 1/2 hour- an hour doing read alouds.

Edited May 12, 2010 by Lizzie in Ma

[choirfarm]

I keep track of what they read for school. Then they have a reading log sheet where they write down what they read for fun. Most years my children turn in 6 pages of reading logs of what they read for fun. But mine read a lot. For example, last night at around 7:30 ish, it was quite and all of my children were in their rooms reading... not because I said they had to. But when you aren't allowed to watch tv or play video games during the week in the evening, what else is there to do??? ( We did play outside late this afternoon and evening, as well as water the garden and other plants, did some weeding and hoeing, etc.)

 

I looked at my summary for the year my boys were in 4th and 6th grade. My 6th grader read over 10,000 pages for fun and my 4th grader 12,000 pages.

 

Christine

[Heather in WI]

But I guess my second question is "how" do you keep track of the books? Do you keep a list, or do you have your kids write down the list? Also, do you come up with a list at the beginning of the year (with additions as the year progresses) that you want them to read?

 

 

I print out a weekly schedule for each subject for each child in Excel. We keep the current week's schedule in the clear front pocket of a 1 inch three ring binder, and as each week passes, we three-hole punch, and put the completed schedule inside. To make the list for you, I just grabbed my fourth grader's binder and typed up what was on his schedule each week.

 

Our reading list is what I come up with at the beginning of the year plus additions as the school year progresses. Or we have weeks where I just can't think of anything and put "pick a library book" or "your choice".

 

I wanted to add that for history reading, I assign reading pages each day, so each day will say: "Read chap. 1" or "Read chap. 1-2" or "Read pages 1-50, etc." For literature reading, I have them read for time. My second grader reads for 45 minutes and my fourth grader reads for 60 minutes.

[homeschooltoone]

My son is in 4th this year. He read and still reading Sonlight Core 3 American History part 1. He reads the readers, history reading, and some of the read-alouds.