THE READING ROOM
Useful, honest writing about homeschooling one actual child.
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experiential learning
Two robots, a warranty of about ninety days, and a job that turned out to be mostly waiting. This is the best book on the shelf about what science actually feels like from the insi
secular homeschool
Nine and a half years of travel to buy a few hours of looking, with no way to slow down and no second attempt. The planet is not the interesting part of this book.
secular homeschool
The best part of this book is the failures. A string of lost pregnancies before one calf, all of it written down, all of it in a book for a ten-year-old.
experiential learning
The California condor did not come back on its own, and it is not staying back on its own either. This is a book about what that costs, in people and in hours.
experiential learning
Hatchet ends with a rescue. This book asks what would have happened if the plane had never come, and the answer turns out to be a winter of applied physics that your child will not
experiential learning
This is the gentler Jean Craighead George, and it is also the one most likely to make your child want to go and do it. Both of those are reasons to read it, and one of them is a re
experiential learning
It is one of the best pieces of animal science ever written for children, and there is a scene in it you need to know about first. Both of those things are true and neither cancels
read-alouds
Ordered from the one that works at five to the one I would hold until ten. Every entry says which child it fits and what to know before you start, because the cautions are the part
read-alouds
Nothing else on this list does what the last forty pages of Holes do. It is also the one with real violence in it, and you should know exactly what before you start.
read-alouds
Dahl is one of the few children's writers who is genuinely better out loud than on the page. He is also crueler than people remember, and the first page is the proof.
read-alouds
Every thing Ramona gets in trouble for makes perfect sense from inside her head. That gap is the funniest thing in the book and the most useful thing in it.
read-alouds
Lewis wrote this one to be spoken, and he talks to the listener directly. Here is what that does to a room, plus a straight answer about the allegory before you start.
read-alouds
If your child says books are boring, the honest answer is usually that nothing was at stake. This one has a clock, a sick kid, and a society of rats who have decided to stop steali
read-alouds
There is a chapter in here about a candy that tastes like sorrow, and it does more for a child's inner vocabulary than a year of talking about feelings.
read-alouds
Twelve penguins in a basement and no moral at the end. Here is why a list of heavy, worthy books needs exactly one of these, and who it saves.
read-alouds
The chapters are two pages long, which is the single most useful thing a read-aloud can be. It is also the most modern book on this list and the one a reluctant kid asks for by nam
