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Independent Reading time?
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How much time to you expect your children to spend reading independently for oral and/or written narrations? How does it vary by age and reading level?
For my oldest daughter (age 11, 6th gr.), I just assign a chapter each day in one or two books. That’s what she always narrates. She also sometimes narrates (verbal and/or written) from our History reading and our Science reading. I’m guessing it takes her about 20-30 minutes to read each chapter in the current books. This girl loves to read, so she probably logs 2-3 hours each day reading.
My 2nd daughter (age 9, 4th gr.) has dyslexia. We’re currently at Level 4, Lesson 3 in the Barton Reading and Spelling Program, which means no “uncontrolled” reading for her at all. She simply narrates our family History and Science readings.
My 3rd daughter (age 7, 2nd gr.) is assigned one chapter per day in a History reading book. She verbally narrates that each day. I would guess it takes her about 10 – 15 minutes to read her one chapter each day. She also does about 30 minutes of un-assigned reading each day. That’s of her own free-will. This daughter, though, is the one who asks for non-fiction books and who is the first to run and get the field guide to identify bugs / birds / etc.
My 4th daughter (age 5, 1st gr.) simply narrates our family History and Science readings. She is getting the hang of reading quite easily – it’s my fault she’s not reading more, because last year, I spent so much time and energy getting my 2nd daughter well under way in the Barton Program that I just left my 4th daughter play. I am not afraid, though — she’s rather quick at picking things up.
My school aged DC are 13, 10, 8, and 5. We use SCM’s history, so they have about one chapter of independent reading each day for that. We are also using ELTL and that requires about 3 chapters per week. I try to vary the subjects they narrate. I don’t always have them narrate their independent readings, but they usually give me at least a few sentences about their readings. ELTL also has some sort of folk tale for each lesson (so an additional 3 short readings per week). My goal is for them to do one written narration per week, and I plan on varying the subjects for this.
The subject they narrate include science, history, Bible, artist/composer study readings, LDTR for Children readings, literature, and geography. Sometimes I have one child narrate and sometimes they narrate as a group.
For my 8yo, she narrates the family subjects with the rest of them. She doesn’t read on her own much since she’s still working on reading fluency. However, she probably could handle the books on her own. We are reading the history books together…I’ll read for a bit, then let her read a paragraph or so, and alternate through the readings this way. I’ll be reading her ELTL books aloud to her. ELTL 2 has her do oral narrations (which I write down), then she’ll copy them for copywork. I think this will make a nice transition to written narrations! We haven’t yet done any of these, but she is my strongest narrator so it should go well.
My youngest is 5 (will be 6 in October) and doesn’t really do narrations at this point. I’ll probably start with them this year. She is just starting to read aloud simple CVC words.
This year I have scheduled 30 minutes of daily reading time. In that time, my oldest 2 work in independent reading (from SCM history or ELTL literature). If they finish with those, they can read from a library book. My 8 and 5yo spend some time working on phonics with me. So far this is working well.
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