Arch at Home Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 I am looking for a more formal literature study for my rising 4th grader. My rising 6th grader is going to start Lightning Literature 7 and the 4th grader is bound to want something for her own. We are going to use Ridgewood Grammar and writing is rolled into other subjects. This year we have used Learning Language through LIterature. I would like something a bit more focused on literature itself and secular. TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadi Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Here's our reading list for fourth grade, which corresponds with the 1850 - Present Day history study for that year. :) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (illust. by Robert Ingpen) (1843) Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting (1850) John Muir: America's Naturalist by Thomas Locker (1850) Walking with Henry: Life and Works of Thoreau by Thomas Locker (1854) Tree of Life: illustrated book of Charles Darwin by Peter Sis (1859) Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley (1860) A Nation Torn: How the Civil War Began by Delia Ray (1861) Duel of the Ironclads: Monitor vs. the Virginia by Patrick O'Brien (1861) Two Miserable Presidents by Steve Sheinkin (1861) Iron Scouts of the Confederacy by Lee McGiffin (1861) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll audiobook by Jim Dale (1865) What Makes a Monet a Monet? by Richard Muhlberger (1867) The Three Questions (story by Tolstoy) by Jon Muth (1869) Twenty-Three Tales by Tolstoy (1869) The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (1872) What Makes a Degas a Degas? by Richard Muhlberger (1873) Mark Twain: 21 Activities for Kids (1884) What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh? by Richard Muhlberger (1887) Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1890s) Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (1904) White Fang by Jack London (1904) Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers (1906) Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling audiobook (1907) Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) Marie Curie's Search for Radium by Beverly Birch (1909) Theodore Roosevelt: 21 Activities for Kids (1909) The Secret Garden by Burnett audiobook narrated by Helena Bonham Carter (1910) Truce by Jim Murphy (WWI: 1914) War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (1914) The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (1941) Sparrow Girl by Sara Pennypacker (1958) The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (1968) My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (present day) Watership Down by Richard Adams (read-aloud) (present day) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by R. O'Brien (read-aloud) (present day) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch at Home Posted May 22, 2010 Author Share Posted May 22, 2010 Great list. I am looking for a literature guide, ideally in a worksheet format. We do better with that format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Great list. I am looking for a literature guide, ideally in a worksheet format. We do better with that format. The Logos School has some nice literature guides that are worksheets. They are quite straight forward, to-the-point type guides. There are 5 of them, each covering 5 books. The link to the page they are on is here. They are called the "Upper Grammar Literature Book" and are numbered I through V. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Well, I couldn't find one for my 4th-grader, so I wrote one based on the WTM reading list for fourth grade. :) I agree with SWB about bot making kids write everything when talking about literature so I put review questions to be completed orally (in the student pages without answers an in the teacher pages with answers). The student pages have narration and book summary sheets, which are more of a worksheet format. I couldn't find anything already existing for secular homeschoolers when I was looking last year, so I don't know if there is anything else out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Robyn Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 We have used (and will be using) the literature units from Moving Beyond the Page. Click purchase, the age group, purchase individual items, then scroll down and you'll see their literature units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 The Logos School has some nice literature guides that are worksheets. They are quite straight forward, to-the-point type guides. There are 5 of them, each covering 5 books. The link to the page they are on is here. They are called the "Upper Grammar Literature Book" and are numbered I through V. HTH. I wanted to add that there are samples of them available online but I've been having problems opening them so I didn't like the samples. They are a bit farther down on the details page of each book. I hope you have better luck opening them than I do. Sometimes they open and other times they don't. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncmom2dawters Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 www.edhelper.com has literature units for thousands of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschnee Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 What about the Mosdos Ruby program, http://www.mosdospress.com/4th_grade_ruby.html, as has been mentioned on this forum in other posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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