Save time and simplify
your homeschooling life...
Learn from experienced
homeschoolers how to write your own curriculum.
It really is that easy!
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. |
|
"Thank you so much for your wonderful website! I was getting quiet frustrated with finding appropriate information on homeschooling - thanks to your website we are now on the right track... Using your checklists for reassurance helped me to have the confidence to come up with my own programme that suits our needs." Rachael "I'm a frequent visitor to your website... I gain valuable knowledge from your website, luckily recommended in the very early stages of our homeschooling journey." Geradine "I checked out your website today and was incredibly impressed by it. I can tell it will be a great resource for our family for many years. THANKS for all the hard work that has gone into making homeschooling easier and much less isolating for families like us." Cynthia |
© Beverley Paine
I found the easiest way to locate fiction for any age group (children/teens) is to wander around a school library. If you feel confident enough why not visit the local school and introduce yourself to the librarian. You don't have to take your children if you or they would find the visit unsettling or intimidating. Librarians love to talk books and school librarians like nothing better than to point parents in the direction of great literature.
I used to spend a hour or so at the school library by myself when my children were homeschooled. Fiction written for teens is my favourite as it deals with many issues in a honest way - most novels deal with identity and coming of age issues. I tended to steer away from the 'problem' novel and preferred imaginative stories.
The good thing about the library is that you can borrow up to ten books from a range of genres and give them to your son. He doesn't have to read them all, but it might be a gentle way to stretch his reading repertoire.
The other easy way to find books for different aged children is to chat to a bookshop owner. Many of them have their favourite genre and that will be obvious the minute you walk in the door, but most are very similar in nature to librarians and would spend hours chatting about books if they could. Ask them who the best authors are for your son - what's new, what's coming out, what's popular and why.
Also do a search in google for book lists or literature lists together with Charlotte Mason. I think the Ambleside website has an extensive list in age order.
The other place is to check out the local writer's centre website. They will have a list of Australian (and especially WA) authors for children. They should have a library you can borrow from as well, if you become a member.
For the internet savvy parent or child you'll find a wealth of books online, especially those past their copyright. The Children's Literature Web Guide has the following very useful collection of links to help you begin your search:
- Children's Story Books Online has a collection of contemporary stories and activities for all ages.
- Story Collections is a collection of websites which have a variety of stories available: some folktales, some contemporary stories, maybe some poetry and non-fiction as well.
- Folklore, Myth and Legend has links to many sources of folklore, as well as to information about folklore.
- Songs and Poetry include a great collection of links from nursery rhymes to classic poems.
- Classics for Young People has links to many of the great children's books of the past, most of them available in full-text on the Internet.
- Contemporary Writing for Children and Young Adults
A search for 'children's books online' will bring up many useful sites that will have you exploring the internet for hours, if not days!
Most computers come with software that will allow a child to hear the online book. Although the accent is weird and the pronunciation not always quite right, children who love to listen but aren't keen on reading can take advantage of this function.
There is no excuse to not bring the wonderful world of literature into your child's life!
on this website is of a general
nature only and is not intended as
personal or professional advice.
BOOK SALE
Beverley's books will be available through her website Homeschool Australia until sold out. It is not anticipated at this stage that further editions or reprints of her books will be made.
Getting Started Manual
Unschooling Books
Educational Games
Natural Learning
Practical HS Booklet Series
Curriculum
Reports/Portfolios
Homeschool Diaries
Conference DVD
More questions?
JOIN a FORUM
Time to spare? Browse our extensive
Looking for Resources?
Home Education Directory
Join the HEA in 2008
and receive 2 FREE Booklets!
until sold out
A percentage of sales
goes to Trees For Life
|
|
Thank you for visiting!
Text & Images on this site Copyright © 1999-2008
Beverley Paine.
All rights reserved
