teachme2learn
Member
I was thinking of reading this book aloud to my children ages 9 to 16. I have not read the book myself.
I did glance through the first few chapters and noticed more than a few unfamiliar words. Should I keep track of them and have the children look them up?
Can I use it as a geography read aloud?
Any other thoughts or suggestions on the reading of it?
Thanks
Bookworm
Member
We love this book! We had a wonderful time with it and all 3 boys have read it on their own more than once.
You can either look up a few words before reading a section or you can make a note of some as you go; don't do TOO many though, and try not to break up the flow of reading too much. If you want to do, say, 20 words a day you might want to try to figure out a few from context and only look up the ones you have no idea about.
It's a little fanciful for serious geography study, but we did keep a map one time when we read it and drew the "journey" on it.
Have fun!
teachme2learn
Member
Just the type of thoughts and suggestions I was looking for!
Thanks so much.
Bookworm
Member
OH, one other thing. If you should chance to look for a movie, the relatively recent one starring Jackie Chan (!!!) bears little resemblance to the book--there were times it seemed only tangentially related, and it involved among other things a really scary scantily dressed Asian lady with very terrifying fingernails. Sigh. WHAT IS WRONG WITH BOOKS that have sold millions of copies--why does Hollywood have to mess with the stories until they are almost unrecognizable?????
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