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Ok, I'm feeling a little dense but I need to ask just the same...What is the purpose of doing Storytime and DITHOR? It seems so repetitive to me. I'm about to begin Bigger with my {almost} 8 yr old ds-an independent reader- and would start DITHOR 2/3 with him. Apart from the reading level of the Storytime book being more challenging, I'm having a hard time understanding the purpose of doing these at the same time. Any insight would be appreciated!

The storytime books are ones you read TO your child. DITHOR books are ones your child reads to you (or to himself). DITHOR is HOD's reading program, whereas the storytime selections are simply read alouds.

I understand the reading to him vs. reading by himself. I guess my more specific question would be about the discussion questions that follow Storytime and the DITHOR workbook. That would be the part that seems repetitious to me. I don't understand why we are reading two books and answering {mostly} the same types of questions for each book. Why not just do DITHOR or Storytime? I'm sure there is a logical reason, I'm just not seeing it.

Here is a post that has a good description by Julie (last post I think). In her description she links to another post that has a full description and intent by Carrie towards the bottom. I think these two posts answer your question and shed some light on the two.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11461&p=83342&hilit ... HOR#p83342

THANK YOU!! That was exactly what I was looking for.

I found having storytime matching the genres in DITHOR helped in demonstrating the concepts introduced. Having only one child, it enabled us to do some of the group activities together. Although each has a different broad intent, they meet in the middle with the discussions and genres. Beyond and Bigger are the main levels with story-time genre-based. Preparing and up are history based story-time books. Also, remember that some kids are still doing the emerging readers with Bigger, so they wouldn't be doing DITHOR.