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mommy4ever
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Posted: March 05 2013 at 12:09pm \| IP Logged

I am looking for books for dd9 to read this year and next. We've gone through the reading list for this year, apparently it was too wimpy.

What are on your kids reading lists? Do you have them do any 'book reports', novel studies with these? Or stick with narrations.

I am really aiming to beef up our reading lists, I feel she is a strong reader. I know her recreational reading is likely below her level, but I'm ok with that, as it's for fun. But I want to challenge her more. At the same time, not so hard that she gets really frustrated.

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Posted: March 05 2013 at 4:14pm \| IP Logged

I like looking at MODG for ideas. Look one grade up and down too.

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Posted: March 05 2013 at 9:59pm \| IP Logged

I like to peruse the Emmanuel Books catalog (which also supplies MODG materials and is keyed to their syllabi). They have the best-organized (and best) historical fiction selection around, for example, all in one place and arranged by period and grade level. The whole catalog is full of great ideas for reading lists. Mater Amabilis also has great lists, broken down not by grade but by level, which is a little broader -- most "levels" in MA cover two years. Those are my two most-used, go-to sources for booklist ideas.

I don't ask for book reports or studies with my kids' reading, just narrations. Mostly I just want them to read, with as little interference from me as possible between them and the book, and we talk about them casually, or I'll notice that they're playing or drawing something from what they're reading. My high schoolers typically do more writing, both of the formal and reading-journal kind, but I mostly want my youngers to read and talk about what they read, as a normal habit of people who care about books.

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