About a week ago I purchased several (8) books for our homeschool but they would be mainly for my oldest, who is almost 13, and is the only one of my 3 girls who can read fluently at this time. She LOVES to read, and will fly through a book, sometimes in one day, but I've also noticed that she is a "lazy reader", skipping over parts that appear to be boring, but at the same time skipping good parts because she really doesn't know where the boring parts end and where to pick up again, kwim?
I told her when we bought the books that she would not be flying through them. Four of the books are more "easy reads" while the other four are harder books like Uncle Tom's Cabin and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Because she hadn't had any new stories to read in a while I didn't mind her reading up the easier books, but I had planned to have her read small portions of the more advanced books and then narrate to me for school. This morning I found the copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin with a bookmark about 1/4th into the book.
So my question is, for books that you want your children to read and narrate for school, do you restrict access to them so that they are read slowly and absorbed only during school time, or do you just let your children have free reign with them, but they must re-read the assigned portion?
