Our goal throughout is the pure enjoyment of reading. The skills associated with understanding this literature include style, plot, character analysis, setting, and theme taught. Literature selections are often made to correspond to units of study in science or social studies. For example, during the study of Colonial America, students read historical novels of that period. Comprehension, study skills, vocabulary and phonics are learned using trade books.
Book reports are a required element of the program.
Students are expected to have a book of their own choice with them at all times. Then one morning, Attean returned. Matt had been waiting, watching the forest trail impatiently, unwilling to go far from the cabin lest he miss the boy's coming. But when finally he saw Attean approaching, his heart sank. Attean was not alone.