Reading With a Purpose Your teen gains the most from what he reads with homeschool literature study guides. When you provide basic literature guides for books on the college reading list your teen is certain to understand them better. Obviously, that’s a worthy goal. Many literature study guides include word studies and composition exercises, negating … Read more
Looking for Unit Studies Homeschool Kids Will Be Inspired By? Who isn’t! You know your homeschooler wants to have fun, but you want him to learn. Would you be surprised to learn that unit studies are a distinctly homeschool phenomenon? Consequently, you don’t have to search far and wide for homeschool unit studies. A google search … Read more
Reading With a Purpose Why read? Many people never read a book after high school. A startling number of college graduates never read another book after college. They don’t like to read. They don’t want to read. They like movies, videos, TV shows and radio. These people figure reading is obsolete – at least for … Read more
This post is a follow-on to last week’s post about teaching subtraction facts and the previous post about addition. Please pull out your triangular flash cards and hold a review. If you’ve read both posts than you know that I’ve already explained two distinct methods for teaching the addition facts and one for teaching subtraction. … Read more
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Much, Much More Middle School Homeschool Curriculum should be the stuff of high adventure. You’ve laid your kids foundation in elementary school. They can read, write and perform calculations. You don’t yet have to worry about making sure your kid’s high school transcript meets the expectations of their … Read more
Parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles Want to Know. What are the best books for teenage boys? What did your son read? This is a question I answer pretty often. Luckily for me, my son is still technically a teenager, and my husband has a long memory. I have live-in consultants to help me write this … Read more
Brain Science to the Rescue Researchers tell us our brains are vast three dimensional webs of connections. The more connections we have, the more intelligent we are. Making homeschool lesson plans more effective is easy when we leverage this way of thinking about our student’s brain. We can connect what we are teaching to what … Read more