God's BIG Story: Level 3

by R.A. Sheats

Nowadays it's fashionable to introduce 'great books' to our children in their Christian paideia or educational training. We, however, recommend the best Book—the Bible. If our children want to learn to read and think, the first and core content of their study must be the Bible. These are God's stories, and our children should know all the stories of Scripture by the time they are reading on a fifth grade level.

Avoiding the piecemeal approach to Bible stories, the authors of this course instead present the whole story, the unity of Scripture, the true message intended by God. It is a redemptive story. While there may be moral lessons to glean here and there, the core message of Scripture is the work of God in redemption. This is the story the Bible presents from cover to cover and is the story focused on in this reading course.

395 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[Christal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book! It is an easy- read, children's bible story book designed for 3rd graders. It does not contain every bible story, but it does attempt to explain the entire biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation in a summarized fashion. Little kids have short attention spans, so I can appreciate that the stories are relatively short. Maybe 2-3 pages, usually. Also, there are pictures to help keep the kids engaged as the story is read. The main old testament stories such as: Creation, Noah's Ark, Tower of Babel, Job, Jonah, Daniel and the Lion's Den, are all included, plus some others. My main issue with this book is that the story of Moses and the Egyptian plagues is missing. It goes from Genesis to Job. Then after that, we enter Israel with the story of Ruth. We don't hear about the wilderness wandering or Joshua's battles to conquer Israel. The stories of the Judges, such as Samson and Gideon are skipped over(possibly due to the violence). It might be too much for 3rd graders. When we get to the New Testament there's a few stories missing that I noticed right off the bat: The story of how the Holy Spirit comes down on the disciples and they start speaking in tongues, and the story of Paul's Damascus road experience. Even though those stories are missing, it is still a beautiful book for kids because it emphasizes a lot of Jesus' parables. A LOT! I liked that because it helps the kids understand obedience, morality and manners. Another neat feature of this book is that at the end of every story the authors explain how the story points to Jesus and our ultimate salvation through him. This book is part of Generations Homeschool Curriculum. They have a level 1-5. I have read the 5th grade one also. It is a bit more comprehensive and detailed; but it has less pictures, and the stories are longer too. It really depends on what you want as to which one is a better fit for you and your kids. The most complete book with the most detailed stories is 5th grade. The shorter, summarized version with lots of pictures is 3rd grade. Either way, these books are a great investment. Absolutely Brilliant!👏 A Reading/Language Arts curriculum that teaches bible stories at the same time. You can get a workbook if you want to, to go along with it, or not. It's up to you. Last thing to note, is that this curriculum does have a Reformed Baptist flavor to it. I don't, necessarily, consider myself Reformed; but I liked it. I just wanted to make that known in case it matters to you; but it just came off biblical to me. It read fantastic.