Comprehension Reading Guide

Recommended books with both a link the the Deschutes county library and comprehension quiz via bookadventure.com For books that don't have quizzes to them I will make them as we go along and put them in softschools.com so anybody can access them.

Additional Books for Free Reading 
List copied from Ambleside Online Grade 3

1. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett  Library  Quiz
2. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley              Library
3. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald Library
4. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle 
5. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Library Quiz
6. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll  
7. The Bears of Blue River  by Charles Major 
8. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Library , Swallowdale and others in the series. Library
9. * Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge 
10. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink  Library  Quiz
11. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder Quiz
12. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge Library
13. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright  Library                                                                      4 Books; Includes: 
14.  The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright Library
15. Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright  Library
16. A Spider Web for two by Elizabeth Enright Library
17. English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Library
18. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry Library also in CD Quiz(18th century, Africa, France and England) 
19. The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong Libary Quiz

Scooby Doo Books Beginner Chapter Books.

Bowling Boogeyman           Library    Quiz

Farmyard Fright                  Library    Quiz

The Phony Fortune-teller     Library    Quiz

Spooky Strikeout                Library    Quiz

The Mummy's Curse           Library    Quiz   Check author 

Personal Library 

A to Z Mysteries Mayflower Treasure Hunt    Quiz

Magic School Bus The Wild Whale Watcher                         Other resorces

The Abominable Snowman Doesn't Roast Marshmallows
Clue Jr. #1 The Case of the Secret Message
The Boxcar Children #1                                 Quiz

Preschool Basics

Audio Flash cards ABC     ABC
Reading Bear

Lets Play some games

Practice singing some ABC's and phonics sounds

Numbers

Colors

Days of the week

Zac the rat.

Trace or print out some fruit from the book, have kids color it and cut out items.  1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plumbs, 4 strawberries.  Then have them glue the pieces to a large piece of paper.  You can also easily create a caterpillar to keep track of the books your reading. Here, here are larger fruit cut outs.


Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?  Once again hands on is best. 

Color the animals, do you remember what color they were in the story? Print


Read Dr. Suess's ABC's 

• Shapes
• Counting to 20
• Comparing (few or more)
• Position (up, down, left, right)
• Classify (same, different) 
• Size (long, short, big, small)
• Identifying coins
• Letters and letter sounds cut and paste 
  
• Basic sight words

Reading / Talking

I've been seeing a lot of comments on various articles about trying to teach a child to read before they can speak well and the damages that causes.   I'm not sure how accurate this is but it has driven me harder to practice verbal skills.  Have children repeat with both simple songs and while reading very simple stories.  I think this teaches them not only to verbalize what they see but also to recognize words on a page.  Ambleside has a wonderful list of book that we will start to enjoy probably more so in the following year (age 4).  Also a daily story time would also be very beneficial.