Please tell me about BJU reading for 3rd grade

[Karie]

What do you think of this program? Is this necessary if my ds is reading books on his own? What's the difference between the newer books and the older green covered books? Are they basically the same?

Thanks!!!

[Karie]

I'm going to bump this, anyone have experience with this?

[MIch elle]

We use Christian Light Reading; it's a reader with 5 workbooks for about $40 total. I suggest starting it in grade 4 because it's only 15 weeks of reading/workbooks (gr.4-8) and then your dc can read whole books the rest of the school yr. I highly recommend CLE reading! Join the CLE families yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/christianlightfamilies/)to viewsamples in "Photos" section of the group.

Here's what's included in CLE reading 4:

SUNRISE READING 400 – Bridges Beyond
401
Working with vocabulary words
Using a map
Comparing and contrasting past and
present
Pioneer and modern windows
Choosing the main idea of the story
Noting which lines of a poem rhyme
Matching characters to actions
Identifying rhyming words in poetry
Writing an ending line for a poem
Predicting events if circumstances
would have been different
Statements as fact or opinion
Characters’ feelings at given times
Abbreviations No. and Nos.
Discerning between imaginary and
non-imaginary statements
Interpreting a figure of speech
Learning the term simile
Identifying similes
Vocation in the story and in a poem
Determining why a story character’s
action was wrong
Writing about a personal fear
Using a map in an encyclopedia
Which story idea was most important
Characters’ actions — character traits
Sentences about a poem’s content
Deciphering a code
Finding parts of sentences that verify
statements
Inferring details from a story
Topic sentences of paragraphs
Putting story events in order
Identifying anachronisms
Inferring characters’ feelings from their
actions
Showing a characters’ feelings
God answered a character’s prayers
References to find various information
Pioneer life – enjoyable or not?
Interpreting a Bible verse
Memorizing and applying Scripture
402
Working with vocabulary words
Identifying instinct in animals
Reading poetry by sentences
Rewriting sentences in different words
Identifying the main idea of a paragraph
Locating a figure of speech
Important details to story plot
A long figure of speech in a poem
Marking rhyme scheme of a poem
Working with synonyms
Using footnotes
Identifying causes of given effects
Counting syllables in lines of poetry
Comparing two animals
Identifying the setting of a story
Contrast clues to identifying meanings
of phrases or words
Using lively verbs
Accented and unaccented syllables
Writing another title for a story
Good weather for various activities
Working with rhythm in poetry
Reading a poem aloud
Putting words in order of value
Scanning to find descriptive verbs
Reviewing rhythm and rhyme in poetry
Sentences with opposite meanings
Making an animal chain
Inferring details from the story
Interpreting a poetic figure of speech
Characters feelings in given situations
Identifying onomatopoeic words
Using descriptive adjectives
Understanding words in brackets
Studying a Bible poem
Setting, characters, plot, and lesson
Reviewing fiction and nonfiction
Inferring things not stated in the story
Memorizing and applying Scripture
403
Working with vocabulary words
Identifying a summary of a story
Matching characters to descriptive
clues
Scanning to verify given statements
True/false statements containing the
word not
Categorizing words
Reasons for given circumstances
Scanning for a figure of speech
Placing events in order
Inferring to place events in order
Ways to obey a Scripture verse
Completing a crossword puzzle
Determining a word meaning
The best time to right a wrong
Determining responsibilty for mistakes
God’s part and our part
Writing a second line for a couplet
Matching words to phrases that rhyme
and have the same rhythm
Making recommendations
Matching actions to Scripture verses
Antonyms of words that describe
character traits
Identifying character by observing
actions
Jobs fourth graders can do faithfully
Learning the term analogy
Completing analogies
Comparing characters to Anabaptists
Using the table of contents
Identifying a story scene – easy to
see in the mind’s eye
Painting a word picture
Completing a crossword puzzle
Learning the term parable
Matching parable details to meanings
Exhibiting understanding of parable
Identifying the most important lesson
in the parable
Memorizing and applying Scripture
404
Working with vocabulary words
Reading a graph
Verifying given statements
Reviewing setting
Key words to use with the encyclopedia
Scanning for answers to questions
Reviewing poetry skills
Predicting what would happen in
given circumstances
Identifying story details that show it
happened long ago
Reviewing summaries and main ideas
Inferring details from the story
The world’s most useful grass
Identifying parts of stories that would
be read orally slowly or quickly
Comparing two unlike things
Reading between the lines
Word pictures from the story
Writing to show emotion
Guessing word meanings using
context clues
Reviewing onomatopoeia
God’s thoughts are not man’s thoughts
Telling something they learned by pain
How a title is/is not a figure of speech
Characters, plot, and lesson
Summaries, lessons, and main idea
Taking responsibility for mistakes
How the story could have ended
Working with antonyms
Testing their own instinct for direction
Locating places on a globe or map
Giving logical reasons
Giving logical responses to given
circumstances
Memorizing and applying Scripture
405
Working with vocabulary words
Categorizing words
Inferring to put events in order
Reviewing summary and main idea
Reviewing poetry skills
Using the dictionary
Determining whether certain actions
were wise or not
Telling why gossiping is wrong
Ways to respond to a tale-|bearer
Comparing a handicapped person’s
abilities with their own
Self-imposed handicaps of character
Good relating to handicapped person
How a character obeyed Scripture
Giving and supporting an opinion
Scanning for information
Identifying personification
Giving an opinion based on inferences
Thinking logically about infirmities
Painting word pictures
Interpreting a figure of speech
Correcting characters’ bad grammar
Why characters acted as they did
Telling one thing very hard for most
people to do
Reading between the lines
Identifying true courage
Exercises with no written instructions
Reviewing summary and main idea
Simile and personification
Determining which of several choices
is most important
Matching synonymous ideas
Lessons to be learned from several
Bible stories
Writing a personal experience
Determining Biblical word meanings
Working with a map
Differences in today and Bible times
Understanding nonresistance to evil
Memorizing and applying Scripture

Your dc will not learn these things just by reading.