I did it...full time homeschoolers now!

[Hometeacher628]

I second the Robinson Curriculum Booklist. My youngest is 11 and she still loves the Arthur Scott Bailey books and so do I. I don't think there is a Horatio Alger book we didn't warmly embrace, and we are working through the Historical Fiction novels of G.A. Henry (nearly 100 of them). I look for good moral content, excellent vocabulary, and incredibly long sentence structure. Most of our favorite books were written before 1930. My oldest, 16, is working her way through the Great Books of the Western World now. To get there, she read 2hours a day minimum, even when she was young. We have DEAR Time, which is Drop Everything And Read. We are all in the same room, reading our own book to ourselves, but modeling great love of reading! When I'm in my studio working in the evening, I'll have the youngest come read me a story out loud. You can really hear when they struggle on a vocab word, or improve their reading by adding inflection and expression to their reading. It is quite fun. Don't dismiss audio books--I've picked up several at the library book sales selling the Classic

[namwen]

That is interesting, my wife suggested audiobooks as well. I honestly didn't know what that did to reading development.

[cookderosa]

I second the Robinson Curriculum Booklist. My youngest is 11 and she still loves the Arthur Scott Bailey books and so do I. I don't think there is a Horatio Alger book we didn't warmly embrace, and we are working through the Historical Fiction novels of G.A. Henry (nearly 100 of them). I look for good moral content, excellent vocabulary, and incredibly long sentence structure. Most of our favorite books were written before 1930. My oldest, 16, is working her way through the Great Books of the Western World now. To get there, she read 2hours a day minimum, even when she was young. We have DEAR Time, which is Drop Everything And Read. We are all in the same room, reading our own book to ourselves, but modeling great love of reading! When I'm in my studio working in the evening, I'll have the youngest come read me a story out loud. You can really hear when they struggle on a vocab word, or improve their reading by adding inflection and expression to their reading. It is quite fun. Don't dismiss audio books--I've picked up several at the library book sales selling the Classic

We must be cut from the same cloth. +1 to everything you just said, and I'll add that my kids have read the entire Tom Swift series (not the Jr. series which is science fiction) all written in about 1900, in fact we own originals of all but 3 which I printed and bound.

[namwen]

We must be cut from the same cloth. +1 to everything you just said, and I'll add that my kids have read the entire Tom Swift series (not the Jr. series which is science fiction) all written in about 1900, in fact we own originals of all but 3 which I printed and bound.

Hold your horses, missy. Now you've gone full bore geek on me. I am afraid that is just too far and too soon for this noob.



~google searching for book binding~

[cookderosa]

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[Hometeacher628]

I love the old books in my hands as well. So many are sold on Kindles and the like, but nothing beats paper pages. I too try to get the oldies, but have resorted to printing as well. You know, there are studies out there that show an increase in eye prescription changes as student progress to Graduate studies or Medical School. I have worried about my kids reading so much when they were young, but printing out a book actually is like creating your own large print book if you keep the paper sized at 8.5 X 11, then bind it. I figured it was easier on their developing eyes. I have fallen in love with Gutenburg Press, and printed out quite a bit from there.

[cookderosa]

I tried to post a photo earlier (which is where I deleted and replaced with a row of 1111111) but I wanted to show namwen some printed books. I know, you guys taught me on the other thread, I'll have to go re-learn how to post pics. IMG_1295 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[namwen]

Wow, you have it bad.

[namwen]

Really, I am just teasing. My text collection and library is pretty large right now.

[Westerner]

I tried to post a photo earlier (which is where I deleted and replaced with a row of 1111111) but I wanted to show namwen some printed books. I know, you guys taught me on the other thread, I'll have to go re-learn how to post pics. IMG_1295 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Here ya go Jennifer