How can I get my kids to read these type of books if they've not been Charlotte Mason educated from the beginning?

Where can I combine my children to make our schedule better?

How do I know that they are getting anything out of their reading?

We are addressing these questions and more as we wrap up our literature series.

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student. Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte

Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser, and I'm here with Liz Cottrell and Nicole Williams. And today,

we are concluding our series on literature in a Charlotte Mason curriculum.

We are sure you still have some lingering questions about how to implement these lessons with your family.

So we're going to be addressing some of those most common ones in this episode.

Nicole, could you please start us off by discussing how we might be able to combine different children in our homeschools.

Yeah. Well, the easiest one, just the most practical one, is Shakespeare because it's done over many terms, at least forms two and three, we're always reading the same play. And sometimes

the upper grades were reading the same play as them as well.

So we can really combine there pretty good. We could read shared poetry anthologies together,

maybe around the breakfast table or dinner table or something like that. I would just only warn

that that shouldn't be like just mom reading aloud all the time. Maybe we share,

you know, who's reading that. There is some natural overlap with mythology and history. Form

2A and Form 3, so that's fifth grade through eighth grade, should all be reading from

Bullfinch's Age of Fable at the same pace, and the forms three and four,

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