justme824 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I am putting together a list for my 4th grader to select from. I am wondering if anyone had any recommendations that I could include that would be challenging for a strong reader? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebacabunch Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Try the Mensa reading lists. They have them listed by grade level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 What has your child read in the past that he/she liked? What types of books are you looking for? Fiction? Historical/living books? Classics? What do you want to avoid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarenNH Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Some books by 9 yr old (just finished 3rd grade) likes: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Star Wars Origami series http://origamiyoda.wordpress.com/ The Wizard of Oz Lemonade Wars series Lunch Lady series Charlie and the Chocolate Factory We'e started reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books together. He is loving Little House in the Big Woods and can't wait until we get to the next book, Farmer Boy, so he can learn about Almonzo's early life. I'm considering introducing him to Ender's Game, but I'm not sure he's quite ready for it. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 excuse the massive typos and such I'm trying to nurse a fussy baby and everytime I try to edit yet another mistake I find she is fidgeting and whining. I think the Great Books Academy lists are nicely challenging. I'm using the 4th grade list for ds this year, who is technically 3rd although older for his grade, due to his b-day being at the local cut-off day, so he turns 9 at the end of the month. I hadn't looked at the Mensa list before. It does seem that they have a lot of good books suggested. I have a few books from that list on my list as well. As you haven't mentioned what he has liked and what he has already read I'll just throw out what I used to make ds a list this year. I looked at GBA, MA and AO, and probably others that I've forgotten by now. From these lists I compiled a list based on what he has yet to read, what I want him to read and what I think he will find interesting. So far off the list he has read The Princess and the Goblin this summer but not Princess and Curdie yet. We read it year before last as a read aloud and I would definitely recommend it if your son hasn't read it yet. They have Water Babies on the 3rd grade list which I've added as well as he hasn't read that, although we did do part of it as a read-aloud. I have in my sig that I have books for lit from AO and GBA but looking now I mostly picked from GBA and MA as I don't care for a lot of the selections from AO. It is interesting to look at the different list and at different grade levels. I do find it odd that on GBA Water Babies is listed on the 3rd grade list, when to me it is similar in difficulty to The Princess and Goblin and a considerably more challenging read than the Little House Series which mostly occupies the 3rd grade list. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the Little House series, ds read Farmer Boy last year and enjoyed it but wasn't interested in reading the rest of the set. I would like ds to read the Narnia series as well but then I also would like to do a study around it next year so I think I'll try to hold him off from it. We did do the first as a read-aloud year before last however and he has listened to them all on audio. Ds has became a pretty voracious reader so I'm not sure how Lit is going to go as he could easily knock out my whole list in the first half of the year, we will see I guess, there are always more books to add if needed. LITERATURE –THE GOOD BOOKS CLASSICS PROGRAM- Grade 4 The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Log of the Cowboy by Andy Adams Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc The Lost World by Sir Arthur Doyle The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Princess and the Curdie by George MacDonald Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb From Ambleside: Black Beauty Pollyanna Secret Garden The Railway Children A Book of Golden Deeds Bambi The Chronicles of Narnia (series) Little Britches (series) Lassie Come Home Gentle Ben Gone Away Lake Thimble Summer Return To Gone Away By the Shores of Silver Lake Complete Peterkin Papers **Calico Captive (girl interest) OR The Sign of the Beaver (boy interest) ***Johnny Tremain Tree of Freedom Amos Fortune, Free Man ***The Reb and the Redcoats Justin Morgan had a Hor I like Mater Amabilis' list as well- here is the 4th to 5th grade list: (2) Classic Children’s Literature (Ad.Lib.) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Swallows and Amazons and other books by Arthur Ransome The Midnight Folk by John Masefield The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Heidi by Johanna Spyri The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Anne of Green Gables by L.L.Montgomery Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson MA- 2nd-3rd grade list: (2) Classic Children’s Literature (ad.lib.) Choose at least one book each term from the selection to read aloud. Not for narration, just read and enjoy! The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis All-of-a-kind Family by Sydney Taylor The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L.Baum Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney Little House in the Big Woods and other books by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Story of the Treasure Seekers and other books by E.Nesbit The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild The Princess and Curdie and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo Fwiw here is ds' official list 3rd Grade Literature: The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie Cricket in Times Square Misty of Chinocteague Wind in the Willows Story of Dr. Dolittle Mary Poppins Heidi Little Lord Fauntleroy Swiss Family Robinson Cautionary Verses- Belloc Treasure Island Black Beauty Adventures of Tom Sawyer Swallows and Amazons- series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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