We read Up from Slavery with our juniors and seniors (I'm a teacher at a Christian private school) and it's so very vital to understanding how we should be thinking now. His thoughts and life were phenomenal! Another one to read is definitely the Autobiography of Frederick Douglas, who actually was a slave for longer than Booker T. Washington, and has similar thoughts and ideas. Those are a lot of great recommendations you gave!
Thank you!!! I’m sure I’ll be adding Fredrick Douglass biography at some point since my son has an interest in the topic of slavery. (He did a research paper on it last year -can’t remember if I said that in this video). So anything pertaining to that, I think will keep his attention better than a fun, fiction book! 😉
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan Yes, if that's his interest, that would be a great addition to his reading repertoire. Especially, if he can grasp their points of view rather than the more modern ideologies that can be quite damaging to upcoming generations! I hope your son enjoys both books tremendously!
@@danielleh237 I agree. He’s reading “Uncle Tom’s cabin” this year too bc I told him, this book gets brought up in ideological discussions these days. So you should be able to say you read it! 😜
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan That's so interesting you say that because I have also included Uncle Tom's Cabin in my personal reading plans this year! That name gets bandied about so often these days, and you are so right to tell your son that! If people are going to use the term, we should probably know what it means from the author's perspective 😆 You'll have to let me know what you and your son think about it, and I'll do the same!
I never thought to read the big book of virtues out loud. I can't believe that never crossed my mind! It's so obvious now. I'll have to add that to our list. 💕💕
Another series that my daughter enjoyed in public school is the I Survived.... series. It's all about historical events. I read one about the Revolutionary War, it was very insightful. The main character was a kid and ended up helping in the army, and tells about how things were during that time. Even at 45 years old, I couldn't put it down!
Oh wow!! Good to know! We have some of those books but I’ve never personally read them. I HAVE read some “Who was” books!! 😉 I couldn’t put down Benjamin Franklin because I was so interested to learn about his life!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan I want to read all the books. Like..... ALL THE BOOKS!!! I never read much til I started homeschooling this past year, and now I want to read everything my daughter is reading plus books about being a homeschool mom and faith and all the things. I need more hours in the day!!! LOL
Regarding the value of education - go to you tube and search "most dangerous ways to school" and watch the videos for your kids to see how children in other countries live and the great risks and dangerous risks (live threating) just to go to school. Your video was excellent.
The Cynthia Rylant Lighthouse series is wonderful. And everything by Patricia Polacca!! Thank you for a great review. We are three generations of bookworms and I’ll be getting your recommendations for sure! We are a read aloud family!
Okay so I’m watching this video after watching the “behind the scenes as a RU-vidr.” And this video is incredible! I love book recommendation videos. We’ve read a number of these books. Considering TGTB for future high school Language Arts curriculum, so I enjoyed the Up from Slavery recommendation. We loved The Sign of the Beaver and Number the Stars also ❤ Currently reading The Bronze Bow with my 8th grader.
We love using books for language arts!!! We love using books to discuss topics we need to discuss!!! We don’t mind older stories and my twins have read books I read as a kid!!! We love Narnia and the lord of the rings!!! We read a biography of William wiberforce!!! We love my old books from when I was a kid!!! I don’t care if a story is fully factual or using facts to make a story to make it come alive!!!
We loved (are loving as we are finishing the most recent book now) the Vanderbeekers series, also a recommendation from Sarah Mackenzie. My 9 yo just said she feels sorry for anyone who hasn’t read those books. We also loved Heidi.
Funny!!! I just revealed on my 7th grade curriculum choices that I’ll be reading the Vanderbeekers aloud this year and my 7th grader is going to do a Brave Writer Arrow guide for it!! 👏👏👏 Sarah Mackenzie is actually who convinced me to add it to this years list! 😜
My family loved The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick! We just purchased The Marvels and Wonderstruck by him and we are so excited to read them.
Love your recommendations and can't wait to hear which picture books you suggest as well. We've really enjoyed the Thornton Burgess animals books such as "The Adventures of Reddy Fox" as well as books by Eleanor Estes like "The Moffats" and "Ginger Pye". The Paddington Bear books have also been a hit recently. For beginner readers, particularly girls, we really liked the Sophie Mouse series. "The Saturdays" was another book we really liked, it is part of a series.
Sophie mouse!!!! Yes, I forgot about that! My daughter received that for her birthday from a friend and she did also really enjoy that! I have The Moffats, but we’ve never read it. Sooo many good reads out there!
I love Thornton Burgess books so much! When I was a little girl we had the whole set. They were all hardcover and the covers were pink. My dad would read them to us every night and use all different voices for each character. My dad had given all those books to me but when I got married, my mom put them into her storage with all my other stuff from my room. She didn't tell me when she was having some financial trouble and couldn't pay for the storage and by the time I asked about my things so I could get them (about a year later), they were gone. If I have a chance of getting a set of hardcovers I'll jump on it. Until then, I just buy the little Dover ones, and they're fine because at least the stories live on.
The One and Only Ivan is one of my favorite books. Katherine Applegate also wrote the Wishtree--also a phenomenal read. I had my 6th grader read it this past year and she really enjoyed it. ❤️❤️
We loved that one! As well as Astrid the Unstoppable by the same author. Both great books that me and my kids enjoyed. (Ages 7 & 9, and even the 4 yo too.)
We loved reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Also, I would recommend Stone Fox for a dramatic read aloud and The Three Trees is excellent around Christmas time. Its also super short.
I remember babysitters club And my motto 🤷♀️ as long as they're reading (well...I kind of draw the line at graphic novels) - that's the goal Our (boys 8-12 yo) fav read aloud this year was "some kind of courage" by Dan gemeinhart So good...has action, bravery, heartache, there is death in the story so just fyi but the ending 😍
I don’t think I’d mind graphic novels!! I read comic books all the time! Archie!!! Lol!! I have all the old school Archie comic books still bc I loved them so much. Wouldn’t buy them today! Some of mine are even from the 60’s from my grandma’s house!!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan 😂 yes hear ya there And yes my boys love the dogman, cpt. Underpants etc etc and my youngest is reading through a 207 pg star wars graphic novel but they also have to have a chapter book going (not that I require on the daily cuz THAT wouldn't happen round here) I can't even say we complete read alouds on the daily-just depends Oh and they also like the magic treehouse books
@tess04231211 That's what I say, too lol It can be hard to ignore the pearl-clutchers gasping at Captain Underpants. I love the clever titles the Dogman books have. They're a lovely nod towards classic literature and it tickles me pink that they do that.
Great book list! I enjoyed this video! A book I'd never read before but just finished reading to my daughter is Baby Island by Carol Brink and we absolutely loved it! ❤
I saw the movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, a few years ago. It did not do the story justice, in my opinion. I remember loving the story back when I was in school. My daughter and I did read-aloud time for most of this school year. Then suddenly she decided one day she didn't want to read that day. This started happening every day, until finally I had her start reading on her own. I'm really sad that she doesn't want to anymore, but I guess my girl is growing up!
Oh yes, The Sign of The Beaver is excellent! We also enjoyed Little Pear, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Green Ember series, and Mountain Born.
For a fun read I love the original Nancy Drew series. For young newish readers that want a chapter book we love Cul-de-sac kids I loved for historical fiction Nory ryans song.
I stumbled onto to your homeschool videos and now RU-vid keeps filling my feed with ones I want to watch. I have not heard of the One and Only Ivan. I love children's literature and there are so many greay books to read to children. One of my kids favorite read alouds is Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes and her series of books about The Moffats. We also love the series The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson, The Heart of the Samaurai and others by Margi Preus, and recently have loved The Mysterious Benedict Society (these are long books for reading aloud but very interesting reads).
Lol!! I’m glad youtube keeps suggesting you watch! 😂 I hope you’re enjoying! Thank you for all of those recommendations!! I actually have a Moffits book. Not sure where I got it, but we’ve never read it!
I was supposed to read Where the Red Fern Grows in 7th grade but it was so sad and that graphic part just disturbed me - I dont remember much at all about the booki except that part and crying crying crying. ol yeller was similar and sounder - I dont know what authors were thinking killing off animals! black beauty was hard enough but still good. same with charlotte's web. I haven't read Up From Slavery but it's going on my list!
I’m with you. Killing the animal’s gets me Everytime. The movie War Horse was really good, but I’ve only watched it once bc of the animal aspect. (Plus the human….it takes place in the war of WW1)
Great video! Where The Red Fern Grows is on my list for read aloud for my soon to be 7th grader. I read that book when I was younger and loved it and can't wait to read it with him. Rachel, when you said your next video would be on picture books, you got me thinking! My son is a little old for picture books but he struggles with writing. Maybe I could use some of your recommendations to inspire him to write a story based on what he sees? Might be a great way to work on sequencing and inferences. What do you think?
Not a picture book. More like he would look at the picture and possibly get inspired to write a story. He is pretty behind in writing (he has autism and ADHD) and avoids writing whenever he can. I'm trying to find ways to make it a bit more fun for him while trying to inspire his creativity. He is a very bright young man, but has trouble organizing his thoughts and getting them down on paper. He also struggles with all writing concepts.
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan oh no! You’ve been missing out. It’s super easy to use, just download on any device. They have regular ebooks too and even videos. I *think* most library systems have it included.
if you read the one and only Ivan as a believer just know that they do make humans and apes seem alot alike. You can tell that the person who wrote the book possibly believes that humans evolved from apes
Thanks for the heads up!! I actually love to point these sort of things out to my kids to help sharpen our observation skills. Reminds me of the Charles Spurgeon (I think) quote that reads, “discernment isn’t knowing right from wrong, but right from almost right.” So yes…thank you for pointing that out!
That’s a good question. So yes on “God-friendly, even if it’s not specifically Christian. It’s not going to fight against my faith. it’s literature that doesn’t glorify bad attitudes especially towards parents or proper authority figures , promotes good moral character, and a story line that isn’t dumbed down. So if any adult can still appreciate the story, it’s a good story
Bridge to tarabithia/ Tuck everlasting / The girl who owned a city/ The tales of desboro? The original Peter pan Original old English cops of the brothers grim
I forgot to add Moby dick in two formats one with pictures and the hardback full text library addition And over the some this year we are going to read / The super fudge books as well as are you there G*d it's me margaret
Mine is from “The Good and the Beautiful” and I like it so much better than the version I got from the library bc the words were larger. I hate squinting to read!!! Unfortunately, I’m not sure that TGATB sells this book separately, but you could check. I got it in the high school book pack.
Also, I have the virtues book. I haven’t made a habit of reading it to my kids yet because I don’t plan ahead. When I do pick it up, the stories aren’t organized by age comprehension so it makes it hard finding one on the spot. However, it is worthy so I think I’ll plan ahead and read it myself too while I’m at it lol.
