HOMESCHOOL PORTLAND
  • Home
  • Educate
    • Oregon Homeschool Laws
    • The Schedule
    • Early Years
    • Year One
    • Year Two
    • Year Three
    • Year Four
    • Year Five
    • Year Six
  • Subjects
    • Grammar
    • Writing
    • Spelling
    • Reading
    • Science
    • Geography
    • History
    • Math
    • Art
  • Homeschooler Meals
Picture

Books You Should Read to Your Kids from First to Fourth Grade

1/1/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
The books on these lists are not a joke. Yes, there are some "big" books on this list, but the point is that you are the one reading them to the child, and not the other way around. The key here is to expose children to beautiful prose and poems, and form a lifelong bond with them at the same time. Not only that, but reading to children helps them​ acquire literacy naturally.

Make it a habit. Choose a regular time each day to read the books. 
Grade One
  • Beowulf
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Canterbury Tales
  • The Fairie Queen
  • William Shakespeare
  • Shakesspeare can be fun series
  • Seamus Heaney
  • The Inferno
 
Grade Two
  • The Odyssey
  • The Iliad
  • Greek and Roman Myths
  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Egyptian Myths
  • Indian Folktales
  • African Folktales
  • English, Irish, Welsh folktales

Grade 3
  • John Milton
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  • Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Les Miserabeles
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Three Muskateers
  • Songs of Innocence
  • William Wordsworth
  • Jane Austen
  • Lord Tennyson
  • Robert Browning
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
  • Edward Lear
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Mark Twain
  • James Fenimore Cooper novels
  • Jules Verne novels
  • Norwegian folktales
  • Moby Dick

Grade 4
  • Robert Louis Stevenson novels and poems
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
  • Heidi
  • Pinocchio
  • HG Wells
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Andrew Lang
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Peter Pan
  • The Jungle Book
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Carl Sandburg
  • TS Eliot
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Topics

    All
    Art
    Book List
    Cooking
    Curriculum
    Educational Games
    Free Downloads
    Geography
    History
    Homeschool Philosophy
    Language Arts
    Learning Strategies
    Math
    Music
    Projects
    Schedules
    Science
    Skills To Succeed
    Zoology

Affiliate Link and Advertising Disclosure

Some, but not all of my recommendations are affiliate links. At no cost to you, if you choose to buy the recommended product, we may receive a commission on the product.  All money made directly supports the operation of the site. I am not paid to recommend products or services -- all opinions are my own. I only recommend things I've used with my family.

If you are a local business that focuses on education and activities for children, you can contact me by email if you want us to promote your services. I will only do so if I believe the service or product you have is something I would use with my own family.​
Photos used under Creative Commons from rachaelvoorhees, Jonathan Rolande, dirkb86, Joelk75, jinterwas, gcapalbo1, Joybot, jeffdjevdet, Manuel Schmalstieg, Brett Jordan, SGPhotography77, grace_kat, Ryan Dickey, lovelihood
  • Home
  • Educate
    • Oregon Homeschool Laws
    • The Schedule
    • Early Years
    • Year One
    • Year Two
    • Year Three
    • Year Four
    • Year Five
    • Year Six
  • Subjects
    • Grammar
    • Writing
    • Spelling
    • Reading
    • Science
    • Geography
    • History
    • Math
    • Art
  • Homeschooler Meals