Assigned Reading & Tracking Independent Reading
This year I pulled out some science and social study books to assign my kids. These are apart from the fiction they will also read. These book will provide somewhat of a foundation for them to do further research, create notebooking pages, or practice summarizing with.
My 4th grade daughter already chose to study Botany as her main science topic this year, but she will also touch on space and read a children's biography about Rachel Carson, the woman who helped create a movement to ban harmful chemicals from our environment.
My oldest is in 7th grade this year. And even though she naturally goes to books in her spare time, I did want to guide part of her reading this year and include books she may not automatically choose. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy is an introduction to basic economics, Food and Nutrition should help develop some more ideas that we already discuss in our family life. And BBC Manual is a "how-to" guide to studying the Bible which is part of Sonlight's 7th grade Bible program. She has been reading Lee Strobel's Case for Kids since last year. So now we are really powering through to complete it. wOw Canada is a really fun scrapbook-type book following a family's travels across Canada. A fun way to learn about Canadian geography and well-known landmarks. She will also choose a couple of missionary biographies to read as well as a book or two from the Discovering Canada series.
Instead of making a checklist of readers to expose her to this year, I thought it would be fun to make stickers. As they independently read a book, they can cover the black and white picture of the book cover on their chart with a colorized book cover sticker to indicate they've finished. I made lots of stickers as choices for each of them. The "required" readers would be in black and white on their chart, and then there's room to stick their own choices on as well.
book stickers.
My 4th grade daughter already chose to study Botany as her main science topic this year, but she will also touch on space and read a children's biography about Rachel Carson, the woman who helped create a movement to ban harmful chemicals from our environment.
Above I've pictured my 5th grader's assigned reading list. I'm sure we will tweak this stack over the next months. But it's a starting point for now. Notice I have the full set of Discovering Canada books. I won't require him to read them all, rather I would like him to choose one or two that interest him and focus on those.
His main science text this year is the Exploring Creation with Zoology 1, which he picked out himself.
My oldest is in 7th grade this year. And even though she naturally goes to books in her spare time, I did want to guide part of her reading this year and include books she may not automatically choose. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy is an introduction to basic economics, Food and Nutrition should help develop some more ideas that we already discuss in our family life. And BBC Manual is a "how-to" guide to studying the Bible which is part of Sonlight's 7th grade Bible program. She has been reading Lee Strobel's Case for Kids since last year. So now we are really powering through to complete it. wOw Canada is a really fun scrapbook-type book following a family's travels across Canada. A fun way to learn about Canadian geography and well-known landmarks. She will also choose a couple of missionary biographies to read as well as a book or two from the Discovering Canada series.
This shelf where many of my 7th grader's literature choices will come from. She won't read them all, but it's my "Go-To" shelf when we are choosing a reader.
All of these titles come from Sonlight Cores F or W.
Tracking Independent Reading
Instead of making a checklist of readers to expose her to this year, I thought it would be fun to make stickers. As they independently read a book, they can cover the black and white picture of the book cover on their chart with a colorized book cover sticker to indicate they've finished. I made lots of stickers as choices for each of them. The "required" readers would be in black and white on their chart, and then there's room to stick their own choices on as well.book stickers.
This is a nice visual for them to see all of the books they've read over the past year.
Some of the stickers left on my 3rd grader's reading list.
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