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I know I have asked this before, but couldn't locate my post.
I have a very math-science-artsy bright girl who is an extremely slow reader. Her pace is and hour for 10 pages of Lord of the Rings/Austen type of reading. Slower for say Churchill.
When creating her schedule for the year (still  ) I am always stuck with the number of pages per day. My oldest is the opposite- I don't plan how much he will read at all as he always far exceeds my plans!
I usually think, for planning, in terms of read x number of chapters from each book- but that would be all this child would do!!! Right now I would like her reading from Church History, History, and Literature. She listens to HEAPS of audiobooks, and most of her history is on audio this year, but that is also very slow....
I know I should be able to do this- but we have used Ambleside for years for my oldest and it is so hard to put it aside for this child....
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My oldest is doing Churchill this year as well. Dd is a very good and fast reader and is still having difficulty with Churchill. That is one heavy-slogging book! I schedule the chapter over the entire week and have her read maybe two or three pages a day, depending on the length of the chapter.
One thing that I am planning to do when we start back up with history (we do block scheduling with the content subjects) is to prepare the chapter for her beforehand. I am hoping to take out the harder words and define them for her a la CM. I did do this once for her and she said it helped but then I fell down on the job after that.
I don't know if that helps any for Churchill.
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I remember your earlier post on this, Kristie...I'll have to see if I can find it a little later.
In terms of a slower reader, I think I'd just drop back the number of books overall so you can spread out the reading. It would be a tough call, but I'd probably just get even choosier in terms of which book I put on her lesson plans. So...rather than choosing 30 books to be read from in a term, I might chop it in half and shoot for 15.
Another thing that might be helpful is to work backwards from the daily lesson plan toward the booklist...rather than from a booklist to a daily lesson plan with a daily number of pages to be read. Perhaps just building a very generic plan which reflects the amount of reading that YOU instinctually think is workable for this child for each day:
HISTORY BOOK 1 - 1 PAGE
HISTORY BOOK 2 - 2 PAGES
HISTORY/LITERATURE - 2 PAGES
POETRY - 1 PAGE
CHURCH HISTORY - 2 PAGES
NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE - 2 PAGES
etc....
From there, you may have a better idea of how many books you can work for the term, and for the year. It may be that only a few books change each term since some books will simply need a longer period of time in which to be read. I would definitely shift from thinking in terms of reading x number of chapters per book to a goal of reading x number of pages per day. And that number of pages should be a number that is workable. Working backwards from there seems like it might get you a decent idea of how many books you can work with per term/year.
Since you mention Churchill specifically, I'll mention that we really appreciate Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples, and Julia is right, it is a very meaty read! It absolutely HAS TO BE spread out over a number of years unless it's being read by a very history passionate older kid. We read 6 pages a week here, every week, stretched across 3 years. Monday is Churchill reading day and then dd adds to her BOC after reading him. I was really concerned about my high schooler's response to Churchill, but she finds the overall context he offers to be very helpful. For your particular situation, I might break Churchill down into 4 pages a week, with one page read a day...and perhaps stretch Churchill across 4 years rather than 3...either going from 8th - 11th grade, or 9th - 12th grade. It's nice when Churchill's writing matches up with the period of history you're studying for the year, and perhaps stretching Churchill out allows you to move a little slower through your history studies. I'm just wondering if this would let you move slower overall and let her reading pace be a little more doable for her. ??
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Found a couple of your older threads, Kristie. I wanted to post them in case there were ideas or thoughts you wanted to revisit:
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...and then on p. 3 of Paula's thread you mention this challenge (I wonder if that's what I'm remembering?)
That's all I could find though. 
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One more thought...
Kristie 4 wrote:
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I think you can still use Ambleside for some of their fantastic reading recommendations, you just may have to be more selective in terms of the books you assign for the term, and choose your own # of pages read/day paradigm.
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