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Independent History Reading
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Hello! I am working on planning next year and am going to have a seventh grader in the mix who will be reading more independently for history, but I am unsure of how to assign the independent readings that are given in the History guides for older children. Am I understanding correctly that first you complete the Bible or History reading for the family and have them narrate, and THEN have the older kids go off with their individual readings and give a narration after ? Wouldn’t this make the history lesson time drag out quite long?
Thank you!
What we do is complete our family subjects, including History, at the start of the day. The independent reading, including for History, is on the students schedule for the day, so they read that when they get to it during their individual study time. The family history time is usually 15-20 minutes which is not too long even when adding in the individual reading time, which might be about the same length of time spent. So all in all history, family and independent, will be 30-50 minutes spent, but not all at one stilling.
They do not do written narrations for the family read aloud, and often I save the older student for last for oral narration so that the younger students have a chance to participate first. I focus on the independent reading selection for oral and/or written narration for older students.
It really does not make school drag on. 7th grade is going to be longer than elementary, but the day is still not too long. 🙂
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