{"id":846,"date":"2011-05-31T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-read-aloud-collections-part-i-of-iii\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:50:37","slug":"when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-read-aloud-collections-part-i-of-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-read-aloud-collections-part-i-of-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 Read Aloud Collections Part I of III"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up<\/u>\u201d Deuteronomy 6:7<\/span><\/strong>

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We have been asked frequently about the \u201ccollections\u201d that we enjoy reading from during morning devotions, as well as other times of the day. <\/p>\n

There are many reasons that I enjoy reading \u201ccollections\u201d to my children:<\/p>\n

1. The entries are usually fairly short. We can read from any one of our \u201ccollection\u201d books in under ten minutes, for the most part. While I like to have a lengthy \u201cmorning reading\u201d time (we sometimes call it Bible\/Character\/Creation Science reading) of forty-five to seventy minutes since we only do it three days a week (we only do it on my non-work {teaching writing to homeschoolers to test our books} days), with my \u201ccollections,\u201d I know that I can just pick up two or three and be done reading in twenty to thirty minutes on rushed mornings.<\/p>\n

2. It allows us to read about a variety of topics all at the same time. We run the gamut in any particular reading session (Bible character in \u201cCharacter Sketches\u201d; animal in \u201cCharacter Sketches\u201d; weather in \u201cIn His Hands\u201d; godly hero in \u201cHero Tales\u201d or \u201cCloud of Witnesses\u201d); American history in \u201cPatriot\u2019s Almanac\u201d; character story in \u201cGreat Stories Remembered II\u201d; and much more!).<\/p>\n

3. Each entry is self-contained. When we do ongoing stories, biographies, history text, etc., if one of my kids is gone, I feel like I can\u2019t read those that day because someone will be missing out and will be in the dark when we have our next reading. With collections, it doesn\u2019t matter if somebody is missing that day or we take off for five days to travel (though collections are extremely portable—see point four!). There is no \u201ccatching up.\u201d This aspect also makes \u201ccollections\u201d great for family read alouds, evening devotions, bedtime stories, etc. for Dad. If Dad is gone, we aren\u2019t \u201creading ahead\u201d without him; he missed an entry or two, but not part of an ongoing story, etc.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cCollections\u201d make for great travel reading. If we bring two small collections, we have a variety of interesting reading at our fingertips. Thus, devotionals, story time, etc. can often be continued in some form while we are on the road. When my kids were younger, I would often keep an \u201cUncle Arthur\u2019s Bedtime Stories\u201d book in the vehicle, so we had a variety of stories handy should we get detained for some reason. (I\u2019m smiling fondly as I write this, remembering a couple of times in which we huddled under an overhang at a professional baseball game reading \u201cUncle Arthur\u2019s\u201d while the game was on hold for rain and while in a long line at Disney World gathered around our \u201cBedtime Story.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The next two posts will contain lists and links of the various \u201ccollections\u201d that we have used with our kids for all types of reading. While we are still on \u201cwhen you rise up,\u201d I will include \u201call times of day\u201d collections in these lists and specify how we have used them. <\/p>\n

Also, I will break them up into two posts\u2014one for \u201clittles\u201d (though my \u201cbiggies\u201d often like these too!) and one for ages ten to twenty! Lastly, if you do not receive PP on FaceBook (by \u201cLIKING\u201d us), you might want to do so. I will be putting links, one at a time on that wall over several weeks. Thanks for joining us! Tell a friend about Positive Parenting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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