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Claire F
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At what point do you stop teaching reading as a separate subject? When they can read all, or most, of their books independently?
My 1st grader is reading quite well - I got the 1st grade Pathway readers (Days Go By) and he's blowing through the stories with no problems. By next year, I expect he'll be reading at least some of his books independently, but probably not all. Would some independent reading and some buddy reading, for other subjects, be enough and I won't need to have "reading" on our daily schedule?
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I guess it depends on what else you'll be doing. Will you have narrations on something he's read? will you do book reports? will you require "literature"? I think it just morphs into the next stage but there's always a potential place for required reading whether you or the student is picking the book.
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For us, "reading" quickly becomes "time spent reading something": could be history, as my 9yo is doing right now, or literature, as my 8yo will be doing in a little while, or whatever. So I guess it stops being a taught subject and more just a function of other subjects. It's useful for my son to be reading now, because my daughter is using the Draw Write Now book they both like best. My daughter likes to finish her day with reading. But I don't think of it so much as a stand-alone subject as a history or literature "activity," if that makes any sense at all!
I guess I really quit even thinking about reading at all, as something I want them to learn, when it's what they choose to do in their free time. Then I just make available a range of books I'd like them to be reading (or we place a Dover order, which is always a big deal in our house, and it's like Christmas).
Meanwhile, I've been having the 8- and 9yos take turns with me in reading the psalm verses and antiphons for Morning Prayer. I do this mainly because I want them to pay attention to what we're praying and learn the psalms, but also because we can always use read-aloud practice, and I find it easier to fold that into something where reading aloud is a natural part of what's going on than to say, "Now We Will Practice Reading Aloud." If you recall my thesis on "difficult" personalities, you'll understand why . . .
But yes, I think that going at reading through the other subjects, with buddy-reading and independent reading, is plenty of reading instruction once reading becomes more fluent. Then you're just assigning history, science, literature, and religion reading, and not "reading reading."
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My 8 yo still has reading on her schedule (out loud to mom), but it is only for the sake of catching those words that might need some pronunciation help or an unruly rule. Usually, she picks something from one of her subjects to read to me every day.
On her schedule is also a book that she reads to her younger brother(6 yo), purely for practice. There is usually a subject or two she shares with her older sister. While her sister sometimes does most of the reading, they do swap and take turns (a little more challenged reading).
Her independent reading is usually a book she chooses or one I choose for her. It's only on the schedule to continue promoting reading and practice, but as she gains more confidence this pretty much gets wiped out by the fact that I no longer need to set a timer for reading time. A book is now a friend and gets picked up all the time  .
She is not at the point of written narrations but she does give oral narrations of all her reading. This is another way I am able to check that she is understanding what she is reading.
Kind of like Sally, reading gets absorbed in several ways by natural learning through out the day 
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That's what I was thinking, reading will happen naturally over the course of the other subjects. We'll still have plenty of reading for literature, science, history, etc., so if he's getting reading practice in those subjects, I feel like he'll be reading plenty.
Thanks for the input!
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I had my kids read through the Pathway readers to the beginning of their 3rd grade level. If kids can read those well, they can read pretty much any book that they want to after that. The stories in the Pathway readers are always so good with a good moral and we enjoyed the workbooks as well. After that I have them switch over to the Brave Writerselections.
But even last year, we read books together such as Animal Farm and Uncle Tom's Cabin - but I think I enjoyed it as much as they did!!
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This year I've just added 'elocution' to our schedule for my dc 14, 12 and 10. Just to make sure they are clear, enunciate well etc. simply put they read a page or two from their current novels to me once a week and I correct and mis-pronunciation and encourage them to be clearer and pause well. Preparing them for reading at Church
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That's a great idea Erin, I like that. :)
He's reading the first grade Pathway readers now (he's partway the second one) and I'll have him read the second grade ones next (he's really enjoying them!). I can use those to gague his readiness as well.
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