Help with Read Aloud in Beyond

[Kims]

Ok I am a bit confused. I am supposed to read a biography for 20 days and ask the questions in the box. Well we are reading Squanto and it only has 11 chapters. They are very short chapters too so how do I make that last 20 days? I can skip days and I was but then I realized that I am missing the wonderful questions in the box.
Thanks,

[chillin'inandover]

You could add another book. Usually a book is read 15 days and then a 5 days book is added but you would have an 11 days and 9 days book. Tammy

[MomtoJGJE]

I take sticky tabs and separate the book into 20 sections (yes shorter than chapters most times) and just read one section per day.

[alydar]

We did Benjamin West which worked out well for 20 days (21 or 22 chapters total I think it has). But for adventure we are doing My Father's Dragon and it only has 10 chapters so we're just doing about half a chapter a day. That works well for DS7 as we are trying to build his attention span.

[pjdobro]

I always try to choose longer books for that reason because I don't like stopping mid-chapter. Picking up a second book for the same genre is another option.

Whitney, in case you don't know My Father's Dragon in part of a trilogy so if you wanted to read a chapter a day, you could read the next one in the trilogy, Elmer and the Dragon, which is also 10 chapters long. Then of course you would want to read the third one though so you might not want to go there. My son absolutely loved this trilogy. It's the book that really sparked his interest in reading!

[HollyS]

Squanto was our biography last fall and we just read half a chapter each day...except for the last one. The readings were short, but I think that made it easier when we did narration exercises.

[alydar]

I always try to choose longer books for that reason because I don't like stopping mid-chapter. Picking up a second book for the same genre is another option.

Whitney, in case you don't know My Father's Dragon in part of a trilogy so if you wanted to read a chapter a day, you could read the next one in the trilogy, Elmer and the Dragon, which is also 10 chapters long. Then of course you would want to read the third one though so you might not want to go there. My son absolutely loved this trilogy. It's the book that really sparked his interest in reading!

I saw there were others! I was really hoping DS would like this one (so far it's kept his attention a bit) so maybe we could get the others just for fun reading. He's such a hard nut to crack when it comes to getting him interested in any "school" materials. If school could revolve around John Deere tractors, attachments, and farming he'd be the happiest little man in the world! But alas,.....