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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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Hooked on Reading
© Beverley Paine, 2004
Series books are a great way to get hooked on reading. Take Harry Potter for example. Who could resist rushing out to buy or borrow book two, then three. Science fiction fantasy has taken the idea of book series to its extremities, capitalising on the fact that most readers never want to let the characters and worlds they inhabit go.
Perhaps you had a favourite series of books when you were a child - The Famous Five , Secret Seven , Biggles , Ann of Green Gables , Little House on the Prairie, The Babysitters' Club, The Dark Is Rising, Peter Rabbit. Perhaps you read anything you can lay your hands on that horses in it, or spy stories, or science fiction. If you child takes an interest in one area, feed that interest, while at the same time providing a rich and varied diet in other areas of their education. Read aloud a first-hand account of survival in the Antarctic while doing a unit-study on whales; share a news story about Greenpeace protests in the Pacific; read Moby Dick every night to the whole family. Let the child follow their passion for their series, knowing that it is laying the foundations of a life-long reading habit. Remember that they are learning much about the human condition from whatever books they read. Series books often transcend culture, time and environment. It is this universal nature that makes them so engaging for children.
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