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….do you read during the school year? I am talking strictly about Literature as a subject. My children are 10, 11, and 13, and we do a lot of our literature books as read-alouds for the younger two (10yo is reading a bit below “grade level” and 11yo has mild autism/reads at a late 2nd or early 3rd grade level). The 13yo usually listens in on the read-alouds and also reads additional literature on her own.
So, I would like to see what others are doing during the school year with Literature. On average, how many literature books do your children read or have read aloud? What ages?
Thanks,
Sue
My daughter will be 12 for the upcoming school year. This will be the first year that she will read the literature choices all on her own. Normally we do it read aloud style partly because I enjoy the books as much as she does. I guess this go around I will have to read them on my own to keep up with her. This being her first year to read completely on her own I have picked four literature choices. If she has completed these way before the end of the school year we will add some more.
Blessings
Diane
For my upper elementary students, I just make sure they have a book going all the time. That equates to about 20 minutes of reading a day with a few minutes of either oral or written narration. My thought is they can only do what they can do. The junior high students, however, must read at least 1200 pages (averages to 5 books) of literature during the year (our state requirements come into play here). Then, though you didn’t ask but I’ll mention anyway
, the high school students need to read a minimum of 1600 pages (averages to 8 books). This is if we have chosen to do literature as a ‘book list’ project. It may look daunting, but so far, we’re on our 5th child going through junior high and it is very doable. I know that using things like Progeny Press study guides reduces the requirement to two for Jr. and 3 for HS because they are so intense.The way I do it is tha my children are required to read a book for 30 minutes a day (during nap/quiet time) that said they have easily gotten through 6-8 books each (3rd to 6th graders) during the school year. We don’t have any requirements here just that they read. Plus what we read for school history/science. Plus if we have a CD for in the car. So we get a lot of reading/listening in. But as I said I put into the organizer 6-8 books for during the school year and we have never had a problem other than running out before the year end!
I have had the feeling that I overscheduled literature, as a subject, this year. I am thinking of cutting back a bit on the quantity of books I require next year. I looked at the SCM curriculum list for literature, thinking ahead to next year, and I have discovered that we have finished about 2/3 of the books listed for grades 4,5,6 already….so, I’m looking at other lists for my now-4th grader because she still struggles a little with reading, so I don’t want to give her books that might be too advanced for her and dampen her enjoyment of reading.
My 7th grade dd, however, could use a push ahead for reading, so I’m thinking of getting her started with Anne of Green Gables and moving through the series. Then, we can have the fun of watching some of the PBS dvd’s of the Anne series, which I’ve heard are rather good.
We love the Anne of Green Gables movie, which does a marvelous job of making Anne a “real” person. The Anne of Avonlea movie mixed several characters, but we really like it. (I cannot get into the third movie because it doesn’t even go with the books.) Your daughter should love this series – especially if she finds ‘kindred spriits” in the characters. I really enjoyed this series. =)
We are reading 2 books aloud, and they are reading 1 on their own. They are always required to read from it daily, minimum of twenty minutes. This doesn’t include science or history literature. All together, we spend 1 1/2 – 2 hours reading daily.
I agree with Sheraz – The Anne books (all of them) and The Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea movies that were made by PBS are among my all time favorites…but skip the third movie that came out more recently. The plot line has nothing to do with the books, the acting isn’t that great, and overall just were not as well done as the others.
Jen
I just realized, after looking up some information about the movies, that the first Anne movie aired in the U.S. 25 years ago, and I do recall watching it. Thanks for the heads up about the third movie.
Sue
I really liked see some hard numbers along with the at least 20 to 30 minutes a day for middle to HS. What about elementary and read alouds. About how many books do you get in a year? I’m beginning to think I may have over extended for prep work on 1st grade.
I am doing 3 terms of 12 weeks and I am reading one lit book per term aloud and we are listening to one lit book per term on audio. So 6 total. HTH
2014-2015 Year – assigned lit in bold; free reading in regular font with only those finished listed. Free reading crosses genres for us.
- dd13 (8th) – voracious reader, but with a heavy history/science/math load this year.
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Julius Caesar (Shakespeare play)
- The Yearling
- The Chosen
- Capitalism for Kids
- Horned Helmets by Treece
- Great American Nurses
- Rifles for Watie
- The Hunger Games Trilogy
- The Maze Runner book 1
- At least a dozen others that I don’t remember off hand.
- ds10 (5th) – my non-reader and only reads what is assigned or when free reading is required.
- Misty of Chincoteague
- Little Britches
- He will have at least 3 more assigned, but haven’t chosen them yet.
- Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel Brill
- We Were There with the Mayflower Pilgrims, Robert Webb
- Geronimo: The Fighting Apache by Ronald Syme
- The True Adventures of Grizzly Adams by Robert M. McClung
- The Kid from Tomkinsville by John R. Tunis (Baseball Diamonds Book 1)
- Ginger Pye
- The LOTR trilogy
- A few others I don’t remember.
- dd7 (2nd) – voracious reader and I can’t keep up
- Little House on the Prairie
- Farmer Boy
- Ginger Pye
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins
- Will have at least 3 more assigned, but I haven’t chosen yet.
- Understood Betsy (ra)
- The Matchlock Gun
- Sarah Whitcher’s Story
- Mystery in the Pirate Oak
- Mystery of the Lost Letter
- Dozens and dozens of others not on my list
- Family Audiobooks & RA
- Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
- All 3 Rush Revere stories
- The Chestry Oak
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
- The Breadwinner (2 more to come)
- The Willoughbys
- Prisoner Popov (may be wrong title, but what we call this missionary bio.)
- The Hobbit
We love to read. I have a general goal of 6 assigned lit books per year plus free reads.
Laurie,
We have just begun first grade. For Literature, I made a list of 20 chapter books plus the Sugar Creek Gang series. Last week I pulled out 4 of the books on the list and asked DS which one he’d like to read together. He picked The Burgess Bird Book For Children. We read a couple of chapters per school day and when we finish we’ll spend about a week enjoying picture books. Then he’ll choose the next read aloud.
I don’t expect to read all of the ones on the list, and certainly not all of the Sugar Creek Gang, but it is nice to have a selection, and I like to give him this choice. He’s an only, so it may be easier to allow him to choose than with several children.
I am curious as to what you had planned – care to share?
VanessaMy daughter is 12 and she is required to read a classic for 20 minutes per day. I also read a chapter of a classic and a chapter of a historical fiction book out loud to her each day. I feel good about that amount considering she’s also reading great literature for her science and history studies. She also reads a lot in her spare time just for fun.
I will probably increase her daily reading time to 30 minutes next year.
I wanted to add what she’s read for literature so far this year:
Anne of Green Gables
Alice In Wonderland
Through The Looking Glass
Grimm’s Fairytales
The Secret Garden
Parts from:
Ben Hur
Around the World in 80 Days
These are just the books she’s read through during her 20 minutes daily literature reading.
Oh! And we LOVE the Anne movies! At least the first two. There’s also a series called Road To Avonlea that we really, really enjoy. It’s based on another series from Montgomery and though, we couldn’t get into the books, the TV series is wonderful! So far we have the first 3 seasons and are looking forward to buying them all.
- dd13 (8th) – voracious reader, but with a heavy history/science/math load this year.
, the high school students need to read a minimum of 1600 pages (averages to 8 books). This is if we have chosen to do literature as a ‘book list’ project. It may look daunting, but so far, we’re on our 5th child going through junior high and it is very doable. I know that using things like Progeny Press study guides reduces the requirement to two for Jr. and 3 for HS because they are so intense.
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