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Read alouds vs. on your own reading
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I’m wondering what the kids read on their own. In the curriculum plan I thought those books were to be read aloud. Am I wrong? The history books… they read on their own? Or what do they read on their own?
Beginning in 4th grade (or as your child is ready after that) the child takes over all reading themselves except for the family read aloud in history and if you’re doing a family read aloud from the literature list you keep reading that aloud. So if you’re using a module you would read aloud any books listed under Family. Then once your child is in 4th grade they read on their own any books listed for their age (4th-6th grade group). You still read aloud the books to your 1st-3rd graders.
Make sense?
I do have my children reading more than that. For example each of my children has a literature book they read for at least 30 minutes (summer) or 20 minutes (during the school year). They read science related stories. They read about artists or composers or inventors.
hsmom22 – it depends on your family’s approach to science. Yes, by 4th grade you can have the child reading their science books on their own. We’re doing science with the 7 youngest together this year so I’ll read it aloud to the group. They’ll then have a basket of related stories and books they can pull from to enjoy on their own.
Same as Tristan – My children begin to move to independent readings and individual narrations in 4th grade and we keep one family read aloud from the Literature list.
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