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Hello -

This will be our first year with HOD. I am starting Bigger and DITHOR 2/3 with my oldest two. I am thrilled to find such God honoring materials and am looking forward to the year.

I have a question about the scheduling for DITHOR. Please overlook how basic it is, but I have to ask! I noticed that the reading schedule is set for 5, 10, or 15 days per book. However, the student book often contains exercises for up to day 13. If I schedule multiple readings for 5 or even 10 days, my kids will miss many of the exercises toward the end of the unit.

Is this a problem? Are the exercises set up so you can skip around? Are they presented in a progressive order that makes it necessary to do them as written.

Maybe this will become clearer to me as we dive into the lessons. Although, I would really love some direction!

Many thanks,
Chris

Chris, This is our 1st year with HOD also. We'll be starting Preparing & DITHOR 2/3 on Mon. Sorry, I don't have answers to your questions, my plan is to do the 1 book @ 15 reading days pace. I just wanted to say HI and I'm looking forward to reading the responses to your questions.

Okay, here's the way I've been doing it, and I think it's the right way. I decide on a genre (or let dd decide), and the books for that genre. If they look just right or slightly easy for her reading level, I'll pick 3, if one is harder, just 2 or if 1 is really hard, just 1. Sometimes I am limited by what I have on hand for that genre (like the current one) Then I get out the schedule and divide the book up into the number of days. For example we are starting with Mystery. We chose Mystery of Pelican Cove and Encyclopedia Brown. Pelican Cove will take us to day 6 with exercises on day 1, day 3 and day 5. The we get into Encyclopedia Brown that I have divided up for the remaining 9 days with ex on day 9 day 10 and day 11, but the reading goes for the full 15 days. And during all this time, no matter what book we are in, I am doing the activities in the teachers guide.

Does that make sense? So no, you wouldn't ever miss any activities within a genre.

Amy -

Thank you! Yes, that makes perfect sense. I never considered doing it that way. I was thinking if we chose two books per genre, then we would go the chosen length and start with activity 1 again with the second book.

So, I gather the exercises aren't progressive and starting book 2 on activity 7 is just fine. Do you do the same with the activities in the teacher's guide?

Thank you so much for the response!

Chris

slpchris wrote:So, I gather the exercises aren't progressive and starting book 2 on activity 7 is just fine. Do you do the same with the activities in the teacher's guide?

Yes! The 5, 10, 15 days of reading are suggested increments. This might help...
If you choose 1 book, you'd fill out the calendar for Days 1- 15.
If you choose 2 books, your child would read the first book Days 1-5, and the second book Days 6-15.
If you choose 3 books, your child would read the first book Days 1-5, the second book Days 6-10, and the third book Days 11-15.

The teacher's guide's plans should match the reading calendar's day. So when on Day 1 of the reading calendar, you'll be on Day 1 of the Teacher's Guide; when on Day 12 of the reading calendar, you'll be on Day 12 of the Teacher's Guide, etc. There are not Student Book pages scheduled every day in Level 2/3. They are scheduled in the Teacher's Guide a few times each week, and when they come up they'll also match the day of plans you're on in the guide and the calendar. HTH!

In Christ,
Julie

Thank you so much for all the explanations! I can't wait to get started.

Chris