lilredmom Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 I am looking for ideas for my new HS student who is entering the sixth grade. Would anyone like to share a list of recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Since you are new to the boards, I went back and read all your posts so that I could see if you mentioned what curricula you were using. I know that certain curricula will actually have reading lists. The Well Trained Mind has reading lists in it as well. My kids are going to be 2nd and 3rd graders, so I don't have a specific list to share with you, but here are a few things I would take into consideration: 1. How well does your daughter read, and how much does she like to read? 2. Do you want to correlate reading to another subject like history or science? 3. What are your goals in choosing her reading assignments? The beauty of homeschooling is that there is no prescribed reading list that all kids have to follow. You get to decide what is important for your daughter to read. If there are reading skills like comprehension, fluency, or inference that you would like to work on, there are workbooks that deal with those, or you can make up your own system. If you're not sure where to even begin, check out the section in The Well Trained Mind about Logic Stage Reading. It may help you determine what you need to do. Discuss with your daughter some of the things she's already read and find out what she likes to read and how much she extracts from her reading. If you have the time, read a book together with her and see how she processes it. For more ideas, you may want to check with a children's librarian at your local library. I have found our librarians very helpful in recommending reading material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 (edited) . Edited July 12, 2022 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twelham Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 order the sonlight and veritas press catalogs- that will give you a great start broken down by grade and everything. also, check if your library has Honey for a Child's Heart- great book lists in there. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 My daughter is going into sixth grade and the "required" books she will be reading (assigned by Oak Meadow) are: The Adventures of Robin Hood D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Rainbow People Growing Up In Aztec Times King Arthur The Ramayana We are also continuing to work our way through Story of the World Volume 1 and we read most of the suggested/supplemental reading for that. We're doing a 52 Books In 52 Weeks Challenge together, so each week we pick a fun read aloud that we're both interested in and read it together. Other than that, she chooses her own reading for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Our list was based largely on the fact that we were studying medieval history that year (as one would if following the WTM history progression)... Some of the titles are from History Odyssey level 2 (middle school) Middle Ages, some are from Lightning Lit 7, and others we simply added in (mostly historical fiction related to the period we were studying). Here's what ds read for school in 6th: Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children (excerpts), Harold Bloom, 0684868741 The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli, 0440227798 Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, 0670869856 The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly, 0689715714 Beowulf: a new telling, Robert Nye, 0440905605 The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Allen French, 1604595221 King Arthur and His Knights, Malory/ Elizabeth L. Merchant, (Calvert) The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White, 0399225021 The Adventures of Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn Green, 0140367004 If All the Swords of England, Barbara Willard, 1883937493 Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Gray, 0142406597 Crispin: Cross of Lead, Avi, 0786816589 (and sequel -- this one was a favorite) Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman, 0064405842 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Master Cornhill, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 1887840001 The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer / McCaughrean , 0140380531 One Thousand and One Nights, Geraldine McCaughrean, 0192750135 The Story of My Life, Helen Keller, 1416500324 The White Stag, Kate Seredy, 0140312587 Tales From Japan, Helen and William McAlpine, 0192751751 The Samurai's Tale, Erik Haugaard, 0618615121 A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park, 0440418518 All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot, 0312330855 Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark, 0140309268 Around the World in 100 Years, Jean Fritz, 0698116380 The Playmaker, J. B. Cheaney, 0440417104 King of Shadows, Susan Cooper, 068984445X Dante's Divine Comedy as Told for Young People (excerpts), Joseph Tusiani, 1881901297 The Second Mrs. Giaconda, E. L. Konigsburg, 0689821212 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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