Each time you read a book,
write a page about the story, anything you found
interesting, what you liked or disliked, or a favorite
character. You can include
a picture as well if you like. You should not read
horror, scary, or gruesome
stories since they do not promote the right spirit or
increase your learning in
any positive way. Put the pages you write in your
Student Notebook behind this list.
Beginner
___ Arnold Lobel books
___ Any cute
Nursery Rhymes book
___ The Magic Treehouse series
___ Mole and Shrew books (by Jackie French Koller)
___ Arthur Scott Bailey animal tales books
Good to Proficient Readers
(If you like an author, try some other books by them!)
___
Encyclopedia Brown series
___ The American Girls series (really good!)
___ Original Nancy Drew books
___ Original Hardy Boys books
___ Andrew
Clements books
___ Fifty Famous Stories
___ The Book of Virtues for Young People
___ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
___ The Cricket in
___ Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
___ Rabbit Hill
___ Books by
Beverly Cleary (recommended: Henry Huggins)
___ A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
___ The Boxcar Children
___ The Happy Hollisters series
___ Horatio
Alger books
___
Myth-O-Mania series by Kate McMullan
___ The Call of the Wild
___ Caddie
Woodlawn
___ Homer Price
___ The Five
Little Peppers books by Margaret Sidney
___ The Borrowers
___ Rascal
___ Stuart
Little
___ The Little Prince
___ The Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet
___ The Black Stallion
___ Paddington
___ Pippi Longstockings
___ The Great Brain
___ The Sign of
the Beaver
___ Dinotopia
___
___ Winnie the Pooh
___ The Indian in the Cupboard
___ Just So
Stories by Rudyard Kipling
___ Little House on the Prairie
___ The Incredible Journey
___
___ Childhood
of Famous Americans books (published by Aladdin Paperbacks)
___ King of the Wind
___ Sarah, Plain and Tall
___ Horatio Alger, Jr. books
___ The
Mysterious Island (?)by Jules Verne
___ Heidi
___ The Secret Garden
___ Island of the Blue Dolphins
___ books by P.G. Wodehouse
___ The Swiss
Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
___ plays by Shakespeare
___ books by Jane Austen
___ stories by O'Henry
___ books by Charles Dickens
___ books by James Herriot
___ Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
___ The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
___ Animal Farm
___ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
___ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
___ Anne of Green Gables
___ Little
Britches
___ Little Women (and Little Men)
___ The Count of Monte Christo
___ The Maze in the Heart of the Castle by Dorothy Gilman
___ Beauty by Robin McKinley
___ The Wind in the Willows
___ The Wizard of Oz
___ The Chosen by Chaim Potok
___ The Witch of Blackbird Pond
___ A Wrinkle in Time
___ The Phantom Tollbooth
___ The Princess Frog
___ Our Hearts were Young and Gay
___ The Iceberg Hermit
___ Anne Frank,
Diary of a Young Girl
___ The
___ A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
___ Book of Mormon
___ Bible
___ Doctrine and Covenants
___
___
A History of US by Joy Hakim (ten volumes).
Advanced
___ Roots by Alex Haley
___ The Double Helix by James Watson
___ Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of
___ Lydia Bailey and other books by Kenneth Roberts
___ The Articles of Faith (James Talmage)
___ Jesus the Christ (James Talmage)
___ Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith by Joseph Fielding Smith
___ Encyclopedia of Joseph Smith's Teachings by Larry E. Dahl (Editor) and
Donald Q. Cannon (Editor)
Read
classics or are well reviewed):
___ math (includes
___ grammar, spelling, and vocabulary skills
___ writing
___ general science (
___ physics
(Einstein)
___ international and historical politics
___ American
government and politics
___ philosophy
___ economics
___ accounting
___ money management (Suze Orman, Dave Ramsey, Ric Edelman)
___ motivational (Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy)
___ LDS
___ HISTORY:
Beginning at the earliest era for
which you can find books, identify a major historical
event for every 100 to 200 years. For each
event read:
One Junior Reading Historical Fiction,
One Adult Historical Fiction, One Adult Biography,
One Non-Fiction book, and one piece
actually written during the era.
___ FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
Read two novels in a language of
your choice. This will require at least a couple years of basic
study of the language.
___ travel—these books often are full of photos, but are a good
way to get acquainted with the far corners of the world.
Continue
reading classics and books from varied subject areas. Go back a read new books from the categories above.
You can get ideas from Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver Van DeMille, p. 143, and the
Robinson Curriculum book list. Be discriminating, do not read
dark books such as
Frankenstein, even if they are on suggested reading lists.
Note:
if your child does not enjoy reading, he or she may lack phonic skills. These
are to reading as math facts are to math.
Some
good reinforcement materials are Hooked on Phonics and Master Reader (another
Hooked on Phonics product).