Video idea: Your kids Top 10 favorite books (not school related but that they read for fun). Either a list from each kiddo or a mix of all ages. I’m having a hard time finding quality books for my almost 8th grader girl and almost 4th grader.

The book “The Read Aloud Family” by Sarah McKenzie and her podcast/ website the Read Aloud Revival are great sources for quality books!

Totally off topic of homeschool, but you have had an extra glow to you lately! You look fabulous!

If you haven't read "Grandpa's Box" I would HIGHLY recommend it!! We have read it as a read aloud in our homeschool and my kids just love it! Very biblically based.

This was so helpful about read aloud books. As a new homeschooling mom I was confused on how that worked. Thank you

I love the idea of the simple book reports! I've been looking for a way to have them record a little summary of what they read without them dreading it. Thanks for sharing!

I had stopped reading aloud after K but bc of Ashlee we do it again but with chapter books and science/history books. Turns out we all love historical fiction. ❤

We are listening to The Wilderking Trilogy right now and we all LOVE it! Six kids ages 11 to 2 and it has been great. Loosely based on the story of David.

Hi, I've really been enjoying your channel. Im a new subscriber and am planning on homeschooling 3 of our soon to be 5 children come the new school year. Thank you for your genuine sincerity to help by passing on your experience and wisdom :).

Do you still do your morning basket in the summer? What about Missionary stories and other read aloud? Or just during the school year? What about bible reading during the summer. I think it’s important to do bible every day, even in the summer, but not sure I want to do a full morning basket all summer. It’s our first school year with a morning basket so just trying to figure out what we should do for summer and how another homeschool mama handles that!

Yes! Totally agree especially about the across the grades and age ranges!

This is helpful! As the kids are getting better at reading I am wanting to make it fun, and want them to love reading!

I am LOVING this new playlist! I just started homeschooling this past year and it has been a whirlwind! I LOVE your recommendations for curriculum and how far you have come with your channel! 😍

Thank you for the information very helpful. Homeschooling 4 kids this year and is very stressful sometimes. God bless you and your family.

We do our big read aloud at lunch time, but my range of kids is going to be changing with kids entering into middle school all the way down to preschool. I think I might need to adjust how read to everyone... Thanks for a great video! Good food for thought!💕💕

Yes I 100% agree with reading all different levels to all different age kids.

I just thought of a topic for you to add that I'm curious about. How do you homeschool child-lead/delight directed/ interest base subjects/activities. I probably know the answer to this already as I have been here from the beginning and watched just about every video, but for those who haven't it would be great info to know and have in their tool belts.

This was incredibly helpful! TY!

I agree with everything you said and I do most of these the same way.

We use Sonlight and love all their recommended books. We’ll probably use their lists from now on whether we’re using their program or not. I also have been interested in TGATB Library. My daughter is going in to 2nd grade, but we haven’t gotten into them much yet. I also like to reference The Read Aloud Revival’s book lists, especially for holidays and genres. 😀

How do you decide what to keep for each year as a record or for sentimental reasons? If you do keep things, how do you organize them?

"How I Homeschool" playlist suggestion: Homeschooling during a move. Thanks for all you do!!

Thank you for that helpful video. Reading is my homeschool passion. My girls are young (8,6,4) so we do lots of read alouds for morning basket. I love the Read Aloud Revival family book clubs so I use those lists for our picture and chapter books but we also do a lot of anthologies and I’ll read a story a day from 1-2. Right now we are reading 50 Women Who Love Science, Girls Who Choose God, Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black history (can you tell I have all girls?), A Year Full of Stories and The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth and our chapter book is book 1 in The Wingfeather Saga. I tend to alternate between classics like Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web and Chronicles of Narnia and newer books like Clementine, Adventures with Waffles and Gooney Bird Greene (although that’s not super new). They really like it if there’s been a movie made of it so we can compare and contrast them. For my oldest, she’s an advanced reader who likes to read on her own and I assign books similarly to your method, by giving her a couple options. I like for her to read at least 2-3 chapters in a book and if she isn’t enjoying it, I let her switch to something else. With my middle daughter, she is just starting to take off with reading so we do a lot of shared reading and I give her books that are at or slightly below her reading level to practice on her own. For both my oldest girls this coming school year, I plan to have a list of books for them to read and report on (simple one page reports like yours), just to start them thinking about the books a little more formally. With my youngest, she really wants to learn to read like her sisters so we are going to work through the TGTB PreK and Primer levels this summer (my oldest learned to read at 3 of her own volition and my youngest seems similar in her skill and determination level). We like to use the BOB books for practice but I also have all the TGTB beginner boxes. One fun thing I’ll mention that we’ve been doing is using a book called Stories We Shared, where I track the chapter books we read together (there’s room for notes or a picture, which is fun). In the back are a bunch of reading quests (like read a book from 10 different countries or read a book published in the birth year of each family member). We are going to start with the quests this summer as a way of broadening our reading horizons. We will have a family prize (like a sundae party or going to the aquarium) for each quest we finish.

Would love to see book collection and hear favs and memories of fav books read together

I have purchased your reading log.. trying to keep a record of what we reading this year! Thank you

Thank you for this playlist! It has been helpful. I am interested in what activities you have your boys doing while you read aloud. I try to keep my boys’ hands busy while they are listening, but sometimes they become more focused on that activity instead of the story.

I love to read to my kids too. I have a kindergartener and a 1st grader

Read Aloud Revival is another awesome resource for reading ideas! She has wonderful reading lists by subject or grade, etc.

The way you structure home-schooling is amazing truly! Just wondering is there ever a day where you just go...Ya know what? We are just gonna go outside in nature or get out of the house cause bookwork just isn't gonna cut it today. Lol cause I just home school one and sometimes that just works for us 😄 PS I really enjoy this channel x

Memoria Press is a great resource for book lists. They have books in each of their grade level packages as well as supplementary grade level packages. I refer to them a lot for book ideas! I was wondering if you would consider doing a follow-up video review of the books you’ve read over the years as family read alouds? I know you’ve done video reviews on what your kids have read, but I’d love to hear which missionary stories and chapter books have been hits or misses in your family morning time read alouds! Or even just sharing a list?

Do you have a favorite learning app good for tablets. Thanks

Thank you for this video! At what age did your children start reading silently on their own?

I would like to know how do you set-up everyone for their independent subjects so that they don't get distracted by the others. I have a 4th grader, a 2nd grader and a prek and I find that to be challenging if they do these subjects in the same room, but on the other hand is more convenient for me to be there for them.

How do you handle electronics in your home?

I would love to know: how do you do field trips? I have a rising 1st grader/age 6 this July and a 3rd grader/age 8. We have used Sonlight/Bookshark (since we are with a charter school) since my son was in 1st and my daughter was 4. When my son (the oldest) was little, I would go to garage sales, free little libraries, and thrift stores to get books for him. We still find a lot of books that way. I also subscribed both kids to the free Dolly Pardon Imagination Library and we got a free book every month until they turned 5! We also have tried out different picture book/early reader series from the library and then bought them at Costco, Target or used bookstores. I love reading so we have so many books! My 8 year old can read on his own now, so I have him read most of the book on his own and then I ask him about it after he finished a few chapters or so. I used to read aloud to him and his sister, but now he prefers to read alone and then I read to my daughter what she wants. We are going to try out My Father's World (Adventures in US History) this summer and I hope that they can both participate in the read-alouds. We love getting recommendations from friends too. Since my daughter is not reading yet, we have also downloaded audiobooks for them to listen to together like the Boxcar Children series.

What Classical books are on your list?

Hey! What about writing? I have a daughter who is going into level 5 for tgatb. I’d like her to be challenged with writing more. The last 2 levels haven’t given a lot of chance to write. I did purchase the creative writing from tgatb for this upcoming year. I’m just not really sure what her writing she look like or how to challenge her more with it. I do have her do a writing prompt each day in addition to handwriting and her LA. Just wondering what you think?

For the school reading, what percentage roughly would you say you pick out for them v them picking for themselves?

Hi! Do you do some read alouds on weekends, as well?

Hi there 😁💕

Thank you for all of your homeschool help! You have been so helpful as this school year is my first year homeschooling my 7th grade daughter! I purchased the Character Cards that you use, but how do you implement them in your Morning Basket time? Do you use the Character Cards every single homeschool day? I only have one child (my youngest and only one still at home) that I am homeschooling so it is just the two of us discussing things. Sometimes my husband will chime in if he happens to be home, but not consistently involved in our discussions. Any insight you can provide in regards to these Character Cards would be greatly appreciated! Again, THANK YOU, ASHLEE, you help even more than you realize!🥰

I know you are about to get into the highschool journey but I'm really interested in how you will grade and track grades for highschool as well as keeping a running transcript. I will have a 9th grader in the fall and it's terrifying. I have done so much researching and I still feel a little lost in that regard.

My son is 9 in fourth grade. He was in public school in until last year. He is struggling with reading and can’t even spell a lot of words I think he should know. The school really held him back and I’m trying to figure out how to help him. I feel like we are starting from the beginning with him. My 7 year old was in public school up to kindergarten and he isn’t reading either. He is harder cause he has no interest in learning to read witch makes language arts hard to do with him. If you have any tips it would be great!

I would like to know what books would be good fit for a 3 yr old? What would your recommendations be?

Hi! Can you tell us your list of "must read" books?

Any tips for homeschooling preK and kindergarten? I will be homeschooling a kindergarten and preK along with keeping a 2 year old occupied.

At what age did you start reading the missionary stories?

You’ve shared the missionary story series on your Amazon page. Do you think they’re appropriate to read to a 6 & 8 year old? LMK PLS!

Missionary stories recommendation please

how do you go through all the various read alouds in your morning "basket"/cart? Do you just cycle through each one (doing like 1-2 chapters in each book- so 1-2 chapters of each book per week)? Or do you read a little from each one? or read one all the way through?

Recommend reading? From you