Literature

Literature & Storytelling

This year we will fall in love w/ literature! I will be reading to them during this time while they sit back and enjoy the stories. In order to keep some consistency and interest I plan to focus on a topic a day. Here is what I have along with a few select readers for you to grab if you’re running away with (or tweaking) this plan. (This is a running list. I am sure I will update as the school year progresses!)

Of the designated 15 minutes, I want to read one picture book and 1 excerpt of literature each day.

Day	Topic
Monday	Poetry
Tuesday	Nature
Wednesday	Bible
Thursday	History
Friday	Literature (including Tales & Fables)

 Poetry: Classical, Biblical, Modern, African-American, and International Works 
                (a great deal of this poetry came from A Beka's Readers)
Books
The Monkeys and the Crocodile
Thankfulness
Someone
Prayer of a Child
America Our Country
Washington and His Hatchet
The Bossy Chicken
Lincoln
Little John Gray
The Lost Lamb
Who Taught Them?
The Rain Song
Holding Hands
The Hairy Dog
Jonathan Bing
One Gentle Word
Bedtime
A Child's Prayer
Who Has Seen the Wind?
A Bird Came Down the Walk
Master of the Sea and Wind
Night
To Honeybee
My Part
The Wonderful World
Goodnight
The Animal Store
Whistles
Our Country's Flag
Ever Faithful
My Creed
Work While You Work
Obedience
Why Do Bells of Christmas Ring?
The Night Wind
Oops the Goops
Catching the Colt
Winter Song

Nature Readers

Wild Life in Woods and Fields (A. Buckley)

Little Wanderers (Margaret W. Morley)

The Natural History Story Book (Ethel Talbot)

The Burgess Animal Book for Children (T. Burgess)
Mouse's First Fall (L. Thompson)
Bees, Snails, and Peacock Tails (B. Franco)
Mossy (J. Brett)
A Fairy in a Dairy (L. Nolan)
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (E. Coatsworth)

Bible

The Awesome Book of Unusual Bible Heroes for Kids (Sandy Silverthorne)

Young Heroes of the Bible (Kirk Douglas)

The Awesome Heroes for Kids (Book of Unusual Bible Sandy Silverthorne)

Young Heroes of the Bible (Kirk Douglas)

Kings and Queens of the Bible (Mary Hoffman)

The Parables of Jesus (Tomie dePaola)

Psalms for Young Children (M. Delval)
The Woman Who Shared Her Last Loaf
Missionary Penny
The Prisoner and the Shipwreck
Our Work

History Readers

50 Famous Stories Retold (J. Baldwin)

50 Famous People (J. Baldwin)

30 More Famous Stories Retold (J. Baldwin)

The Librarian Who Measure the Earth (Kathryn Lasky)

A Cabin Faced West (J. Fritz)
How Lydia Darrah Served Her Country
The Ride of Paul Revere
Nathan Hale
A Lad of Long Ago
Lincoln and the Quaker Lady
Hand in Hand: 10 Black Men Who Changed America (Pinkney)
Yoshi's Feast (Kajikawa)
The Sign and the Beaver (E.G. Speare)
The Sword in the Tree (C.R. Bulla)
Lucky Beans (B. Birtha)

Literature

Just So Stories (R. Kipling)

Peter Rabbit (B. Potter)

Reading Literature The Primer (Free & Treadwell)

Works from Shakespeare, Twain, Grimm Brothers, & Chaucer

Little House in the Big Woods (L. I. Wilder)
The Ugly Duckling (H. Andersen)
Rapunzel (F. Bofill)
Sounder (W. Armstrong)
Mississippi Bridge (M. Taylor)


Literature Units (notebooking and lapbooking included)--courtesy of Homeschool Share
Night of the Moonjellies
Alejandro's Gift
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses
Day of Ahmed's Secret
Flight of the Union
Crow Boy
Freedom on the Menu
The Gift Store
The Harmonica
The Little House
Faraway  Home
One Grain of Rice
All the Place to Love