Reading aloud is one of the very best things about homeschooling! So often, people underestimate the educational value of gathering the children together to hear a story. This is not “extra,” in addition to the “important” subjects. This, besides Bible, is one of the most important things that a family can spend their school day doing.
At STAR, our families with students in Forms 2 and 3 are all reading through the same chapter book at a time. The children discuss the week’s reading with their tutor, over tea, during class time on Wednesdays. At the end of the book, if there is a movie for the book, we watch the movie together. You can recreate this at home! Scroll down to see the list of books for the cycle, and then download the PDF reading schedule.
Read aloud books are scheduled at about one chapter per day, for a total of approximately four chapters per week.
You may use audio books if you like. Make sure to choose some subjects to read aloud in, though, so that your children have warm memories of hearing your voice reading aloud to them.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle OR
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
You can download the pdf here:
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If you have book suggestions or comments about these books, please share! 🙂