by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 23, 2009 | Reading Aloud
Books on tape from Blackstone Audiobooks Men of Iron — Pyle The Bronze Bow — Speare Jo’s Boys — Alcott Sufferings in Africa — Captain James Riley The Captivity of the Oatman Girls — Lorenzo Oatman The Shining Company —...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 7, 2009 | Reading Aloud
Here’s mine. My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — A. A. Milne
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 15, 2009 | Reading Aloud
Thank you so much for encouraging us to read above the level you think your child will understand. Recently we began to read Charlotte’s Web with our 5yo son because the play is coming to our area and we needed to know the story since we didn’t read it as...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 15, 2008 | Reading Aloud
Dear Laurie, This year I began slowly shifting over to using the trivium method, but am interested in finding books I can read aloud to my 2nd and 3rd graders. Please give me any suggestions you might have. Thank you, Julie, CA How about these: Shasta of the Wolves by...
by Laurie Bluedorn | May 20, 2008 | Reading Aloud
I would like your thoughts on children listening to books on tape as a partial substitute for mom reading aloud 1-2 hours per day. My 8 year old boy has latched onto several very good books, at least two grades above his reading level, which he has gobbled up because...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Mar 29, 2007 | Reading Aloud
Penrod by Booth Tarkington (published 1914) Penrod Schofield is twelve and has been volunteered by his mother for “The Pageant of the Table Round” in which he is to play the Child Sir Lancelot du Lake. He gets himself into a mountain of trouble when he...
