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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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© Beverley Paine, 2004
If you don't have a lot of time to read aloud to your children, and this tip is pitched largely at the working parent who doesn't get to spend all day with the children, why not take advantage of the newspaper? Most daily papers are written at upper primary level and contain a variety of writing styles and genres, from journalistic reporting to general interest or how-to articles, book and movie reviews, product reviews, gossip, info-advertisements to classified ads. Weekly papers are the best, as they are huge and have the largest range of reading material, including the much sought after comics and television guides!
Don't dump the paper on the table. Break the paper into sections and ask who wants to read what section first. Have a cuppa and a snack and sit and read and share things that interest you. You will be modelling behaviour that your children will, over time, naturally emulate. You don't need to push them to tell you stuff, or ask you questions. That will happen over time, if you don't put a heavy emphasis on it or make it a chore. Children suss out 'lessons' and very quickly 'tune out'. This isn't a reading lesson, it's a sharing time.
on this website is of a general
nature only and is not intended as
personal or professional advice.
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