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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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Finding Time for Reading
© Beverley Paine, 2004
If you are like me and have trouble finding time to read to yourself or to each other, make time . We make time for The Simpsons , for the friendly chat that goes for half an hour at the supermarket, for waiting patiently at the bus stop, for the laundry, or for making dinner. How many adults do you know who continue to read beyond the compulsory school years? If children are going to grow up as readers then they need to see that reading is valued more than entertainment; it is an essential element in daily life.
Once upon a time we didn't have phones and life was just as full and exciting. Once upon a time we didn't have books and managed quite well. But would we go without phones now? Even governments consider them 'essential' items. So are books! Make sure your house is stocked with things to read, and make the time to read them. By setting aside time to read, and letting your child see your read, you tacitly inform your child that reading is important. No amount of lecturing, browbeating, or preaching can make that point as well.
In addition to making time for reading, create reading nooks in the home: comfy open places where shared reading can take place, to little hideaways where a person can be left undisturbed for hours with a favourite book. Make reading a past-time that is pure pleasure!
I believe that the worst thing that can happen to a child is to associate reading with school work, as an activity that is done during 'lesson' time, or to 'learn' something. We learn all the time, even when we aren't studying or doing 'lessons'. Life is one long continuous lesson. Learning is as natural as breathing. We don't think about breathing. In the same way we don't think about learning. We simply do it. And reading can occur in much the same way; unnoticed, spontaneous, and for a real, rather than contrived, purpose immediately relevant to the reader.
It's easy to incorporate reading into everyday life and to gently encourage your children to practice their developing reading skills without too much fuss.
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