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Found this post on different ways to teach your child to read, from the very simple start of learning the ABC’s and so forth.
- Step One: Learn the alphabet.
- Step Two: Connect beginning sounds to alphabet letters.
- Step Three: Connect ending sounds with alphabet letters.
- Step Four: Put letter sounds together to make words.
Hmmm.. this post by Homeschool Australia caused me to once again appreciate the art of having a good book collection. 🙂 Do books instead of DVD’s. 🙂
My thanks to Sprittibee for pointing my way to this site.
As Sprittibee says
The Scott Foresman Online Grammar and Writing Handbook (a FREE curriculum) this week. We started using it yesterday and I really like it! …….The worksheets are quality PDF files and you can print them by section from a neatly organized table of contents.
I have to admit, I like the Homeschool Math Blog. I find lots of interesting things posted here. Some of free, others are not. I like the freebies, but mostly I like the ideas for teaching math that I find posted there.
This week she linked to this site. This site will help me not to have to make up so many of my own work sheets.. and gives me ideas for making sheets of my own that I can post up for others. 🙂 Neat huh? 🙂
New blog to me: called The Thinking Mother
Found this post on Children’s book lists.
It seems to me that there are two main types of book lists.
1. The first is a list of books that someone thinks are worthwhile to read. There are two general subsets of that kind of list:
A. Lists that make good read aloud’s; those books are not matched to the child’s independent reading ability, the adult reads the book to the child and the child can comprehend and enjoy books many years above the “independent reading level”.
B. The other type is used by adults to match content to a child, such as finding books that reinforce certain morals or character traits, finding books about horses, finding books on a science or history topic for the child’s personal interest OR to teach the child that topic in a school or homeschool situation (usually).
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2. The other kind of list is a list of books with ratings by independent reading level of a child. Those lists are desired by teachers mainly, by homeschooling parents and by parents as well (if the parent is doing their own research rather than just using a book that the school recommends). Those lists are for both fiction and non-fiction. They can be used to help a child learn to read and they can also be used to find books that a child can read to themselves to teach themselves about a topic (rather than being read aloud to).
It can be a challenge to find book lists. Some are made into books, others are posted in on-line forums, and still others are made in a variety of ways.
When going through a book list, make sure you are aware of the author’s bias. Make sure that you know what your child can handle.
Sounds a lot like using common sense.
I thought the article interesting and worth remembering.
I have to admit, I saw this trick to learning how to spell family, and it made me smile.
AND I kept saying it over and over again to my 19 month old lad.
It’s posted over at Homeschooling Asperger’s, post called FAMILY.
I have to admit, I often think best while talking out loud.
So when I read this post Talking to Learn it made sense to me.
It reminded me of when I was in college, I would short form all my notes and then I would find an empty classroom, and I would “teach” the class what I needed to learn for my exam. I kept things in my noggin so much longer than when I silently went over and over my notes to learn them.
Mike closes his post with this line.
If you truly want to learn something in a way that it becomes part of you, then develop a lifelong habit of speaking out loud to aid in the process.
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