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Great! I'm so excited! A good book to read about using genre as a tool to get kids to read widely is The Book Whisperer. It inspired me to seek out a program like DITHOR, but didn't have enough nuts and bolts to follow as a curriculum, just the rationale. I'm really looking forward to DITHOR as a wa...

Is DITHOR written with the expectation that children will use the suggested books only, or can I let them pick anything they want to read within the genre? Would that create extra work for me to adapt the materials, or are they written all generically enough to work with any book?

I think I posted in the wrong forum (Bigger, instead of the Main Board). I wanted to know how the extensions are worked into the curriculum before I decide where to place my daughter. Here's the original thread: http://www.heartofdakota.com/board3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9506 Please feel free to move it...

I really like the idea of buying Bigger for my 10yo, but I'm curious ahead of time what it looks like to incorporate the extensions. Are they scheduled, or just listed? Do they add to the length of the day? Are they all additional, or sometimes substituted for the younger materials? I won't have a y...