How many books?

Jennifer – We actually do both ways in our house. Most literature books we read 1 chapter 3-4 days per week. However, we usually have one that we read only once per week. ie. dd12 is reading The Old Man and the Sea by Heminway 3 times per week. She is also reading Oliver Twist by Dickens once per week. We have done it this way for years. It is a good balance for our family and we prefer it over having 4-5 lit books going at once.

Just a thought–I am no expert, but we are kind of doing what missceegee described, entirely by accident. Only, my husband is doing the once-a-week readings. Every Wednesday he does a story from the Children’s Bible at bedtime, and on weekends he’s reading A Child’s History of the World with the kids (other nights are kids’ choice). Meanwhile, I read through a chapter book with the kids almost daily at tea time. It has worked out as a nice way to get my husband involved more with school in a “continuous” way, rather than him just occasionally doing a chapter from our literature book and trying to jump in and out of the story.