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After your child is reading fairly well, how do you schedule this? As the child is learning to read, your work with them and listen to them read, right? Then after what do you do? Is the recommended literature list on SCM used for them to read outloud? to themselves? with you? or as a family read aloud? I’m confused. Help please. 🙂
Nina,
The SCM suggestions are simply a starting point of books to read aloud and enjoy as a family. Personally, we always have a family literature RA going and my 9yo has at least 2 going at a time. My 6yo is learning to read and has his little lesson daily. I choose all of the literature from a collection of booklists.
Currently…
- Family RA – On the Banks of Plum Creek
- 9yo selections – Misty, Stormy’s Foal and Frederic Chopin, the Early Years
- 6yo – I RA from Aesop daily & he narrates. I RA a good children’s book to enjoy, today Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel. Quite often we read more or from a chapter book, but this is today. He reads the lesson out loud from Alpha-Phonics and reads a Nora Gaydos reader out loud to me.
- almost 3yo – I RA whatever she asks for or that I pick from the myriad of picture books we own.
There have been recent threads re. book options with many booklists shared. Do a search and you’ll get plenty to choose from. Also, don’t forget the bookfinder.
As for scheduling…I have a resource in my CM Organizer called Alpha-Phonics and we check off lessons done. I have one called Daily Literature and entered 200 divisions and use the notes to list what we read. I also put in the Nora Gaydos readers and just check them off as done.
HTH,
Christie
My new readers are not assigned anything, though I keep good stuff available. Since once they ‘get it’ reading is such an exciting thing to them, this has worked well. Once they get to an age where they are assigned books, I put it on their schedule (10 minutes at a time) and then when we are doing our one-on-one time, they narrate to me. Sometimes I will type that up. I try to allow time for them to read aloud to me up through 6th grade – longer if they need it; that gives opportunity to review phonics and work on oral speaking/reading skills, and comprehension skills. I try to address each age group with the books I select to read aloud (we’ve got age groups that fall into 5-7, 10-12, 15-17). The ones they read are just those I think they will enjoy or I know they have a need to read.
Blessings,
Cindy
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