New to CM, assistance planning series of individual, smaller books?

Hi! I’ve been using the SCMO for a few months for “kinder” simply trying to get a feel for it as we prepare for a real year 1 next year.  I’m planning on using A Child’s First Book of American History for a spine for an overview of  American History before beginning a 4 year history cycle with the Ancients next year.  And I’ve found a slew of readers and picture books to go alongside the spine.  I know that I want to stretch out the picture books (Jean Fritz books, etc) to at least a few readings CM-style and not devour them and move on, and the readers (think level 2, level 3 readers) will take 1 or a few readings but will likely be done within a week.

Sooooo, would you recommend putting each of these smaller “extras” into the organizer separately?  In that case, I’d figure out what order we’ll probably do them in (recognizing some may be added or dropped as I figure out our pacing), and then set each one to “start after… (the previous book).”  If something is added or dropped or done out of order, then I’d use the Scheduler to bring up the book we’ll be using and adjust the next book to show up after the addition, I think.

Or would you create a schedule like, “Readers,” and list for divisions the slew of books that I anticipate him reading out loud on the topic?  In this case, the details of which books were read wouldn’t show up in reports, right?  Just that he read X many “readers” in this time frame, I think.

If any of you have tried either adding a series of small books separately or clumping them together as divisions in a single topic, I’d love to hear how it worked out before I start entering these things!  Thanks 🙂