Literature & Fiction

The books worth building a unit around. Classics, award winners, and the novels that hold up when you read them a second time with a kid. Every one of these can carry a month of language arts on its own: read it, talk about it, write about it, and skip the worksheet.

How to use it: one novel a month is a real curriculum. Read the hard ones together and the fun ones apart. The only rule worth keeping is that a book your child is genuinely into beats a book on a list they are enduring.

Looking for something specific? The Series Reader for the kid who only reads series, The Read-Aloud Year for the whole family on one couch.