by Diane Noble
Reading skills are an important part of any homeschooling curriculum. This is because people use reading skills not just in English class, but in all subjects. Even when we study history or science, we need good reading skills to comprehend and digest the information. Homeschooling parents need not confine reading lessons to English class. In fact, you can incorporate reading lessons into every subject area. It`s also very important to encourage children to read beyond what is required in their curriculum. Developing reading as a habit will do wonders for your child`s success in many areas of their studies.
One of the great benefits of homeschooing, flexibility, comes in really handy when parents are trying to teach reading skills. This flexibility allows parents to work on reading skills any time of day. Reading skills don`t have to be confined to study hours. For example, you can read to your child before bed or have them read to you and that can be their reading lesson for the day. Or you can ask your child to retell a story they read earlier as you cook dinner and that can be their comprehension lesson for the day. This flexibility allows homeschooled children to fulfill their reading potential more quickly than public schooled children. Standardized reading tests for children often show that homeschoolers are better readers than public schooled children.
by Diane Noble
Homeschooling your children will probably be one of the most significant decisions you make for your family. When you decide to homeschool, you need to become at least somewhat knowledgeable on a broad range of subjects in order to prepare an adequate educational plan. Once you have created this plan, which should include specific goals for each subject area. These goals should include unit projects. Projects help children take a large amount of different facts and information and apply them in a useful way using new skills and old skills that require fine tuning. Projects are a great way to implement and test knowledge acquired through an educational unit.
Here’s an example of how to organize a project with your child. Let’s assume you’ve just finished a biology unit, a great week long project might be to create an ecosystem in an aquarium. The goal will be to create an environment that can be self-sufficient in the sealed aquarium. While learning about the different cycles of nature, encourage your child to think of the most efficient way to create the ecosystem. Your child can think of ways that nature is efficient and try to mimic these characteristics to create a sustainable and efficient environment.
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