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Originally Posted by Titus2Momof4

For those of you who use Ambleside Online, with reading children.... do you read the weekly readings TO them, or do you have them read them on their own? Or do you perhaps read the suggested readings to them and let them read some of the suggested Free Reading books on their own? Just curious.... (yes I'm looking back at CM because I just can't help but like it but it seems so overwhelming, but we are taking a break from school til probably the end of March, when we are settled in, and I figured that would be a good time to read a little more on the AO website, if I can manage to make sense of it) OK not really. REALLY...I'm still leaning toward sticking with Abeka, and honestly the whole downloading books off the computer thing doesn't appeal to me too much ( that's why I liked Heart of Wisdom...)

Well, at least I'm learning about various methods and what have you, even if we do just end up sticking with Abeka, for various reasons.

We DO NOT download books, either. I purchased everything I thought we needed. Ds is doing year 2 and is a strong reader. We do about 2 or 3 readings each day. Ds will read one or two on his own (usually Child's History of the World, any of the Hollings books, 50 Famous Stories - I added some of these to year 2 because we didn't do year 1 - plus he listens to Burgess at Librivox), as well as his poetry. The more challenging reads (like Shakespeare and Pilgrim's Progress), I read to him. We also add science, composer, and artist living books in there - sometimes he'll read those himself, sometimes we'll read them together. The same with the free reading selections.