Choose one or more books from this page to read aloud to your children throughout the school year. Please do not attempt to read every book listed on this page. Remember that there are four cycles, and that, eventually, you will come back around to this cycle, and at that time you can choose other books (or, you may choose to re-read some favorites!).
If you have a child who is able to read independently, choose a book from this page and print the reading schedule for your child’s binder of independent work.
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This is a vibrant and colorful book and is full of illustrated maps with lots of details.
This resource is scheduled for all four cycles.
There are assignments scheduled in this book for fifteen of the twenty-eight weeks.
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This is a fun book with big, colorful pictures, though it is a bit dated. Note, purchase the 1995 version and not the 2016 version. The 2016 version includes a same-sex relationship in the text.
This resource is scheduled in cycles 1, 2 and 4.
There are readings scheduled in this book for eleven of the twenty-eight weeks.
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This is a coloring book of maps and lyrics with a CD of songs. This resource is scheduled for all four cycles. You may choose to sing these songs with your children each week that these locations are studied. The book includes coloring pages, and the CD includes music that is catchy and fun.
This resource is scheduled for all four cycles and also in Cycle 2 science.
There are assignments scheduled in this book for twenty-five of the twenty-eight weeks.
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This book is full of illustrated maps with lots of details.
This resource is scheduled for all four cycles.
There are assignments scheduled in this book for nineteen of the twenty-eight weeks.
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This colorful book is full of illustrated maps with lots of details.
This resource is scheduled for all four cycles.
There are assignments scheduled in this book for twenty-three of the twenty-eight weeks (though some of the pages are read multiple times).
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This book is read over Cycle 3 and Cycle 4. This is a read-aloud title with some hand-drawn, black and white images scattered throughout it. Hillyer is also the author of A Child’s History of the World, which is read in Cycles 1 and 2. His writing style is interesting and entertaining for young children. Note that this book mentions evolution in chapter 2.
This is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for Week 1 through Week 28.
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This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for weeks 1 through 28. This book is only scheduled during Cycle 4.
This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for weeks 1 through 28. This book is only scheduled during Cycle 4.
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