Hot Lava Mama Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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.....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleinMN Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammaruss Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I have one in 4th grade now. His list of books that he has read is on my blog listed below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Lava Mama Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KS_ Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in WI Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Lava Mama Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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 ================================================ 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 ============================================================= 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 ===================================================== 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauracolumbus Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in WI Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschooltoone Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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