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Review: How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren

 

So now your children know how to read. Congratulations! That’s a major step, but does it mean that their reading instruction finished? Not at all, we’ve found.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading teaches the average reader how to understand, analyze, and learn from books. It takes students beyond the basics of reading to become scholars. It is, I think, the foundational book in our homeschool high school, besides the Bible.

To read the rest of this review, please visit The Curriculum Choice.

I have also published my notes about the four levels of reading, based on this book.  Highly recommended.

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