Booklists on AO and SCM

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  • December 1, 2011 at 7:05 pm
    Tia
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    I was just on AO’s website, which I haven’t visited very often.  I have a question…the literature listed on Year 1, Year 2, etc…are these books recommended for independent reading or are they read aloud recommendations?  I never can tell when looking at book lists…

    I have also always wondered the same thing about the literature recommended on SCM…??

    December 1, 2011 at 7:12 pm
    suzukimom
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    For AO, the general agreement on the AO Yahoo boards, is that the Years 1-3 books are generally a read alound…. but you want to slowly be having your kids start to handle some of them on their own…. and that hopefully by Year 4 the child would be able to read them on their own except Plutarch and Shakespeare…  but that it will depend on each child.

    hth some!

    December 1, 2011 at 8:16 pm
    Sara B.
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    I read aloud to anyone who can’t read.  My oldest, a strong reader, reads everything on her own except family books and the read-alouds we read at quiet time.  I think AO actually has a differentiation between Read-Alouds and Literature, doesn’t it?  So Lit books would be aloud until they can read them on their own.  That’s how I’m doing it, anyway, fwiw.  🙂

    December 1, 2011 at 9:23 pm
    Bookworm
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    Suzukimom has the basic idea down, and then you simply adapt for each child.  All mine were reading well by age 6, so I did have them read a few things on their own in Years 1-3,  although I read the bulk, and then I simply decreased it year by year, sometimes term by term, until I was mostly doing Plutarch, Shakespeare and anything else especially tricky and they were doing everything else except family read-aloud.

    December 1, 2011 at 11:24 pm
    Tia
    Participant

    Thanks for the info!  We still read aloud to everyone, even though the oldest reads a lot on her own.  I’ll have to look over the lists…it seems an odd way to go about recommending books.  With this method, a year 1 child would hear Charlotte’s Web, and then maybe not read it on her own in early elementary because the list would have progressed…

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