Homeschooling: The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child

Homeschooling: The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child

by Linda Dobson
Homeschooling: The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child

Homeschooling: The Early Years - Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child

by Linda Dobson

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Overview

Discover the Rewards of Homeschooling Your Young Child
Young children are full of curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder. They're willing to try new things and possess a natural joy of discovery. Yet in a traditional school, these natural behavior traits are too often squelched. That's why more and more parents just like you are choosing to teach their children at home during these critical years—the years that lay the foundation for developing learning skills that last a lifetime. Inside, respected homeschooling author Linda Dobson shows you how homeschooling can work for you and your young child. You'll discover how to:
·Tailor homeschooling to fit your family's unique needs
·Know when your child is ready to learn to read
·Teach your child arithmetic without fear—even if you're math-challenged
·Give your child unlimited learning on a limited budget
·And much more!
"Brings dazzling clarity to the otherwise nerve-wracking confusion of early learning—and the adventure of becoming fully human. Highly recommended."—John Taylor Gatto,former New York State Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down
"Provides a much-needed introduction to living and learning with young children. Open the book to any page and you'll find inspiring anecdotes and approaches to learning that leave the reader thinking, 'That just makes so much sense!' Highly recommended for anyone who lives, works, or plays with young children."—Helen Hegener, managing editor of Home Education Magazine
"An information-packed delight; I only wish it had been around when our three boys were three to eight years old."—Rebecca Rupp, author of The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook
"This book brings together the experience and wisdom of a great variety of homeschooling families—tied together with warm encouragement and wonderful simplification of processes that can seem so mysterious and daunting to the beginner. A very solid resource!"—Lillian Jones, homeschooling activist, writer, and reviewer

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307809124
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/11/2012
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Linda Dobson, author of Homeschooling: The Early Years, The Homeschooling Book of Answers, and The Art of Education, is the news editor and columnist for Home Education Magazine. She is also a member of the National Home Education Network. The mother of three homeschooled children, she lives in Rainbow Lake, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Homeschool Learning Journey

Part One: Preparing for Your Family's Learning Journey
1. The Homeschool Learning Journey and Today's Family
2. Ready for Success: Learning Assets of the Early Years Child
3. The Joy of Learning with the Early Years Child
4. Getting You ready for Homeschooling
Part Two: A World of Curriculum Choice Instills Lifelong Love of Learning
5. Learning to Read, Reading to Learn
6. Writing: Dear Grandma
7. Arithmetic: 12 Cookies ÷ 3 Siblings = 4 Cookies for Me!
8. Beyond the 3 R's: Covering the Rest
9. Tailoring Homeschooling to Your Family's Unique Needs
Part Three: Keeping the Learning Journey Fun and Successful
10. Resources for Your Learning Journey
11. The Learning Journey Merges onto the Information Superhighway
12. Homeschoolers' Top Three Destinations
13. Accommodating Younger Learners
14. Keeping House (and Sanity!) As You Homeschool
15. Part-Time Homeschooling: Complementing Private and Public Schooling
16. Enjoying the Road Less Traveled
Index

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