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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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I Write; Therefore I Read!
© Beverley Paine, 2004
From a 'language experience' point of view, reading is considered to be a 'conversation' with an author and writing is a recording of oral language. Learning to speak, listen, write and read are integrated aspects of language development. One way to encourage reading and writing is to help your children record stories about themselves. If your child is very young you can scribe as she dictates. I used to encourage my children to draw a picture, either in their "I can" book, or daily diary, or of a special or recent event, and then I'd scribe the 'story' below the drawing or painting. Sometimes I'd need another piece of paper! I wrote the words exactly as they said them, usually in lead pencil. Even non-readers seem able to spot a different word if you automatically correct their diction! Read back what you have written and make corrections, guided by their judgement.
It's important to keep the story in your children's words so that they have ownership and can recognise their story as they learn to read. As you write, tell them what you are doing. Explain that spoken words can be translated into letters of the alphabet. Sound out some of the words if they seem interested, especially beginning and ending sounds.
Choose simple topics to start with, such as "what is the scariest thing that ever happened to you", or "who is your best friend, and why". My children loved recalling episodes from their lives and embellishing them with fantastic details. Stories about pets and friends featured largely and make a wonderful record for when they become adults and parents themselves.
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