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How many books per term/year do you read to your younger children?
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I know that Charlotte recommended that we not read a huge number of books to younger children…..so how do you apply this to your hs?
Do you have a list for each year?
Would love to know what others do with this.
Perhaps this will help.
Scheduling Books and Pages – from a CM mom, compiled from CM writings, I believe.
that link overwhelmed me!!! so the 25 books / term for 4th graders – is that including books we read aloud in school and as a family or is that just extra reading for him? And my son reads these chapter books and I don’t see how 12-20 pages a day would get him through that many books in 12 weeks. Am I misunderstanding this chart?
Thanks,
Amy
I, too, can see how overwhelming that chart might be. My first thought is whether I’m understanding it correctly. Are the number of books per year/term/week/day including all subjects (except math, I would guess) or does that exclude things like character development or Bible?
Remember many books stretched over a year or years being read 1 ch per week.
In our family, we schedule 1 ch (or chunk of pages) per day for Literature and 1 ch for History typically. So in a 12 wk term we read 33 ch of each. If the book’s chapters are very short, we read 2-3. I use the last week for exams and catchup. I use this same principle for 1-3 when I’m reading or for older kids who read on their own. Sometimes, we have more than one lit or history book at a time to equal more chapters read per term, but this is my baseline.
I like that chart, but remember its a tool. I don’t break chapters unless very long and many books we read daily instead of book 1 on Monday, book 2 on Wednesday, book 3 on Thursday, etc. I prefer reading book 1 daily followed by book 2, etc. I do usually have at least one book that we read 1 time per week, but not all of our books.
Does that help or muddy things? Btw, the SCM Books and Things Seminar addresses this more clearly, but I can’t pull that out at the moment.
yes that helps!! Thanks for clarifying. That is basically what we do as well. It just seemed like a lot when I saw it broken down like that. I need to listen to the books and things seminar. My 9yo has really taken off with reading this year. He loves it BUT he has occular albinism w/ nystagmus so reading for any length of time exhaust his eyes. So while I want to challenge him I have to set realistic expectations for him. But audiobooks work great too and are a tool I need to make better use of. Thanks again!
Amy
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