Homeschool Helper - January 2009 - (Page 6)

FEATURE ARTICLE CONT. Reading Recommendations While the inclusion of a title on this list does not necessarily indicate that Homeschool Helper gives unqualified endorsement of any book’s contents or philosophy—you need to determine what’s appropriate for your children—the following books, on a variety of levels, are frequently recommended by Christian librarians. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock, Eric A. Kimmel Are You My Mother? P. D. Eastman Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey The Borrowers, Mary Norton Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White Corduroy, Don Freeman The Cranky Blue Crab, Dawn Watkins* The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins Farmer Dillo Counts His Chickens, Jesse Adams* Farmer Dillo Paints His Barn, Jesse Adams* The Five Chinese Brothers, Claire Huchet Bishop Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown Harry the Dirty Dog, Gene Zion Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell Jenny Wren, Dawn Watkins* A King for Brass Cobweb, Dawn Watkins* Lassie Come-Home, Eric Knight The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper Mice of the Herring Bone series, Tim Davis* Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard Atwater Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry The Mitten, Jan Brett The Moffats, Eleanor Estes Mumsi Meets a Lion, Kim Stegall* My Friend Flicka, Mary O’Hara Paddington Bear, Michael Bond Pelts and Promises, Nancy Lohr* The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats Songbird, Nancy Lohr* The Story about Ping, Marjorie Flack Tales from Dust River Gulch, Tim Davis* Treasures of the Snow, Patricia St. John *Available through BJU Press at bjupress.com. (continued from p. 4) Continue to model good oral reading for them. Expose them to a variety of good literature. Read chapter books that are just above their own reading level but not above their comprehension level. Reading aloud has many benefits for your children. Read aloud together every day. Instill in your kids a love for reading and for good books. Reading aloud to your children 6 is truly on one of the best gifts you can give them. Barb Leatherwood (BS, Elementary Education) has twenty-seven years of experience in education and is the mother of four, ranging from a junior higher to a post-grad doctoral student. She has been a featured speaker at many school and preschool conferences around the country and has also provided teacher training at several universities in China. She now works for BJU Press as an Early Childhood Curriculum Specialist. Linda Acredolo, PhD, Susan Goodwyn, PhD. Baby Minds (NY: A Bantam Book, 2000). p. 97. Cecily Kaiser. If You’re Angry and You Know It (Scholastic, 2004). 3 Eric Carle. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. (NY: Philomel Books, 1969/1987). 4 Wanda Gág. Millions of Cats (NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1928/1956). 1 2 http://www.bjupress.com/product/046904 http://www.bjupress.com/product/124099 http://www.bjupress.com/product/046912 http://www.bjupress.com/product/258012 http://www.bjupress.com/product/249342 http://www.bjupress.com/product/102731 http://www.bjupress.com/product/254359 http://www.bjupress.com/product/117382 http://www.bjupress.com/product/102517 http://www.bjupress.com http://www.bjupress.com/product/028316

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