Turn out last week for the fourth and fifth-grade book club was great! Fifteen kids, roughly a third of students in these grades. Tomorrow I meet with my oldest kids, half of which participated with me in last year’s book club.
Read along!
assigned due
1. The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare 9-17-09 10-15-09
Book level: 5.0 / AR points 10.0
2. Crispin: Cross of Lead
Avi* 10-15-09 11-19-09
Book level: 5.0 / AR points 7.0
3. Pocahontas
Joseph Bruchac* 11-19-09 12-17-09
Book level: 6.3 / AR 7.0
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare 12-17-09 1-21-10
Book level: 5.7 / AR 9.0
5. Freedom Train
Dorothy Sterling* 1-21-10 2-25-10
Book level: 6.2 / AR points 6.0
6. The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder 2-25-10 3-18-10
Book level: 5.3 / AR points 3.0
7. The Secret Garden
Frances Hodges Burnett 3-18-10 4-22-10
Book level: 6.3 / AR points 13.0
8. The Yearling
Marjorie Rawlings** 4-22-10 5-14-10
Book level: 5.0 / AR points 19.0
*School copies will be available
**Eighth-grade summer reading title
You will notice that the book levels fluctuate throughout the year. Why are students not reading material from easiest to most difficult? I’ve focused our reading on historical fiction and am taking students on a “journey” in chronological order, from the Roman era to Florida in the 1920s.
perfect! Noah is just starting the bronze bow– we LOVED the Sign of the Beaver…
Kate, I’d love to share your Noah’s thoughts with my students. Anything he’d want them to know about either book? Favorite scenes? Things that surprised him? Interesting sentences? I love that he’ll be reading The Bronze Bow as we are.
So glad you’ve been by!