Question about Historical Readers

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Michelle My Bell
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Question about Historical Readers

Post by Michelle My Bell » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:36 pm

Hi Carrie,

My daughter has loved CTC and we are excited to do RTR this upcoming school year. After looking at the samples I see you have some DITHOR type activities scheduled with the readers, the first being Forbidden Gates. That looks excellent, but I have a problem. We don't do the readers. My daughter enjoys reading the history and listening to the Diana WAring CD's, but she and I like to expose her to good literature such as The Secret Garden and The Witch of Blackbird Pond etc... I don't want to tie her fictional reading into the History because she needs a break from the same topic and asking her to read another book (for a seperate literature study) in addition to all of her other studies would be too much. We did it this way this past year and really enjoyed it. THAT said, I like the activities listed with the readers and was wondering if we could use ANY book with the activities or if they are book specific?

Thanks!
Michelle

Michelle My Bell
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Re: Question about Historical Readers

Post by Michelle My Bell » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:35 pm

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4froggies
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Re: Question about Historical Readers

Post by 4froggies » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:51 am

Michelle, I'm not Carrie :) but my understanding is that the historical books from Storytime box are meant to be read-alouds, not readers. The student would then be reading books you select to do DITHOR (such as the Secret Garden, etc.) HTH!
Beth

Mom to 5 great kiddos (15,11,8,5,2) and one due in October!

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