Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Learning to Read While Learning History


This is what I was reading in 1st grade:

Given the choice, I would rather have been reading this:


Today we are bombarded with more choices than ever, whether we are in the shoe store, on the car lot or in the cereal aisle. In my day everyone was wearing saddle shoes, driving station wagons, eating Wheaties for breakfast and, of course, learning to read with Dick and Jane. Well, happily, that whole variety of options thing has carried over to beginning readers! Step Into Reading offers a batch of entertaining and educational titles on five levels. Step 1: ready to read (preschool to kindergarten), Step 2: reading with help (preschool to 1st grade), Step 3: reading on your own (1st to 3rd grade), Step 4: reading paragraphs (2nd to 3rd grade), Step 5: reading chapters (2nd to 4th grade).

Step 3 is a collection of over seventy books about nature, action heroes, princesses, witches, folk tales and familiar characters like Arthur. And I'm drooling over all the history titles available at this beginning reader level. Here they are:







































2 comments:

  1. These are all great! Thanks for posting this:)

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  2. May I suggest "Winter Danger" by William O. Steele. A great exciting & adventurous book to read to the kids. If anything will make them want to read, this is one of the best in my opinion.
    Regards, Keith.
    http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com

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