Good morning everyone! We took a much-needed Internet break yesterday but we’re back today with our homeschool reading list for this year!
We’ve always encouraged early reading in our family, so regular family reading sessions are pretty normal around here. With this school year, though, we wanted to branch out into more varied kinds of writing and into books that deal with more serious topics so that we could stimulate discussion among the kids.
This is not a complete list of all the books we’ll be reading this year. These are the books that we’ll be focusing on for unit studies by adding activities, field trips, and discussions. Stay tuned to see how we base our lessons on these and other great books!
For Tigger:
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
2. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
3. Donavan’s Word Jar by MonaLisa DeGross (Trophy Chapter Book)
4. Ernestine & Amanda by Sandra Belton
5. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Sterling Illustrated Classics)
6. Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate
7. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
8. The Boxcar Children Books 1-4 by Gertrude Chandler Warner
9. Chevrolet Saturdays by Candy Dawson Boyd (A Puffin Novel)
10. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
For Pooh and Roo:
1. Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles – Think of That! by Leo and Denise Dillon (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books)
2. Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea and Brian Pinkney
3. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
4. Africa Brothers And Sisters by Virginia Kroll and Vanessa French
5. Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper
6. The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
7. Masai and I by Virginia Kroll
8. Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney (Reading Rainbow Book)
9. Kelly in the Mirror by Martha Vertreace
10. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Abridged by Chris Van Wyk
11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. (Classic Board Books)
12. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
13. Lola at the Library by Anna Mcquinn
14. For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me by Eloise Greenfield (Trophy Picture Books)
15. Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Duncan Edwards
16. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
17. The Best Bug to Be by Dolores Johnson
18. Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss
19. Alvin Ailey by Andrea Pinkney
20. Pass It On: African American Poetry for Children by Wade Hudson
Do you work from a reading list with your kids? Are there any books in particular you’re looking forward to this year? Feel free to share them with us in the comments!
I love the picture of your biggest and littlest reading together, that looks very serious and companionable. Your list looks great.
I still read chapter books to my kids. We are currently alternating The Famous Five and Harry Potter. How could we possibly ignore the Famous Five when we live so near the locations she used? And they were my favourites when I was little.
We do lap-books and I now wait to see what we are learning next before buying the books. I thought we were doing Geology (done) then fossils then dinosaurs. I was ready and raring to go. It turns it the kids were really excited about investigating the Ancient Egyptians. I try to get a couple of fiction books about a topic and whatever we can find factually. I love the Tree-house books, they give us a nice start and then we are off.
So we don’t have a book list planned each year, towards the end of a lap-book we start planning our next installment.
Our Science project from tomorrow is raising day old chicks and we are using the Gail Gibbons book for that.
We have way too many books but they are all wonderful and somehow you have all the best home school books in America. We buy loads from the internet. Ours are very….factual…..which I am sure is not the same as downright dull.
With some other mums here, we are talking about setting up a home school library, which we would love, as much because we could clear our own shelves a bit.
This is a great list! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of my favorites. 🙂
We love, love Knuffle Bunny! Good stuff! Great list!
Love the pic of your daughter and the baby reading!! That is one great gift of homeschooling – more time to just be together. Fun list – hope you guys have a great time reading!
I see some familiar favorites here! Great list for all ages.
I need to make a reading list and keep track of what the kids are reading. Thanks for reminding me and giving me some ideas!
I LOVE reading with the kids. Eric Carle book are my FAVORITE kiddo books! I loved many other on your list and I’ll have to check a few others out too! 🙂
~Honey of Mondorfment