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Our Family List of Classic Literature to Read Aloud

It certainly is a difficult job to put together a list of classic literature to read aloud.

In creating this list of our classic literature, I have chosen our most loved books.

The Year 4-6 children may be able to read the Read-Aloud Titles in the booklist. However, they are so special to read-aloud. I believe they will gain far more snuggled up close to you listening to these absolutely wonderful living books, than reading them on their own. I hope your family enjoys these books as much as our family has. How can you use this list?
Take your pick:

Choose some classic books from the categories as it suits you.
Copy and Paste the book list into a Word document table - and check off what you have read and when.
Divide the literature list into years. There are more than 24 books in the Read-Aloud sections. If you read 8 each year, you are doing really well!
Those books you can't read aloud, can be added to the list of books you'd like your children to read when they are able.

The highlighted childrens literature are our absolute favourites!

How can you use this literature in a language arts lesson?

Read more language arts lesson plan ideas here.

Perhaps you would like to use an integrated approach to teaching language arts as I have done in Modeling the Classics - The Hobbit.

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List of Classic Literature

Years 1-3

Read-Aloud Chapter Books

Winnie the Pooh Stories by A.A.Milne
Little Mrs Pepperpot by Alf Proysen
Hans Christian Anderson Fairytales
Brother Grimms Fairy Tales
Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel (I love these!)
Aesop's Fables
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (I couldn't quite get into these.. but I know others love them)
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mouse on the Motorcycle and Others by Beverly Cleary
Henry Huggins and other Henry stories by Beverly Cleary
Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Puppy Summer and Others by Meindert de Jong
The Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.Nesbit
The Railway Children by E.Nesbit
The Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis
The Magician's Nephew by C.S.Lewis
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and others by Beatrix Potter

List of Classic Literature

Years 4-6 and above

Read-Aloud Chapter Books

Prince Caspian by C.S.Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S.Lewis
The Book of Virtues by William Bennett
Moral Compass by William Bennett
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Carry on Mr.Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Borrowers and Others by Mary Norton
Dear Mr.Henshaw and others by Beverly Cleary
Five Little Peppers and how they Grew and Others by Margaret Sidney
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
King without a Shadow by R.C.Sproul
The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Iliad retold by Alfred J.Church
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Shakespeare's Plays - A Midsummer Night's Dream;
-The Comedy of Errors
-As You Like It
-Hamlet
-Macbeth
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Odyssey of Homer retold by Alfred J.Church
Freckles by Gene Statton Porter
Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Statton Porter
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary MapesDodge
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
Little Women and Others by Louisa May Alcott
Parables of Nature
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jong
Peter Pan by Sir James Barrie
Mary Poppins by P.L.Travers
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

There will be more reading lists to follow.

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