Reading and Pathways Readers

The Pathway Readers are for reading practice – for the child to read aloud to you.  We love the Pathway Readers!  Over the past 3 to 4 years I have used them with my three oldest kids and started using the grade one books with my fourth child this year.  One of the years even mentions the importance of good habits in one of the stories so that’s a wonderful bonus for CMers! 🙂

I use the readers as reading practice like Alicia. We guage the reading by skill. I get them to read and watch for the first eye rubbing of discomfort. Usually we start with a page by that, then progress as the child gets comfortable. I don’t use the workbooks. I see if the child makes a comment about the story and listen, or if not, I saw “That poor kitty did not like being dressed up I think…” or some detail, and my child chimes in. Just as a check for comprehension of what they just read. Sneaky, but I am not expecting a full narration. Just recognition of a detail. Older children read them for 15-20 min as reading practice, or by the story. I still have my middle son read aloud. To help this skill. I may get my oldest to do that this year just to gain more fluidity in reading aloud. She is accomplished at silent reading but aloud is not as easy.

I love, love, love the pathway readers! I have such good memories of reading those books over the years with all 5 of my children. I would take turns reading aloud with them. They would read one page then I would read one. We would both look forward to it each day!