Tours - Lists of recommended chapters for people with various interests in home schooling.
# Title page - book information
1 The Starting Line
2 The Home School Alternative
3 Parents and Education
4 When not to Try Home Schooling
5 Keeping Peace With School Authorities
6 Battle for the Right To Home School
7 Helping Your Child Learn
8 Inspiring Motivation
9 Developing an Educational Framework
10
Planning for Teaching
11
Techniques for Teaching
12
Structure for Learning
13
Memorize Quickly and Make it Stick
14
Memorizing Scripture, Joyous Legacy
15
Enrichment Resources
16
Using Your Local Library
17
Support Groups
18
Developing Intelligence
19
Thinking Responsibly
20
Thinking Precisely
Areas of Learning
21
Planning for the Early Years
22
Teaching in the Early Years
23
Teaching Values
24
Developing Strength of Character
25
Teaching Reading
26
Phonics, a Realistic View
27
Decoding Words
28
More Than Phonics
29
Teaching Literature
30
Teaching Writing
31
Teaching Handwriting
32
Teaching Math
33
Teaching Science
34
More on Teaching Science
35
Teaching Social Studies
36
Introducing Geography
37
Teaching a Different Language
38
Making Music
39
Music and Values
40
Teaching Art
41
Skills Development
42
Learning From Work
43
Teaching High School
44
Teenagers Taught at Home
45
Preparing for College
46
Teaching Special Needs Children
47
Teaching Gifted Children
48
Social Success
Theory Into Practice
49
The Lovely Game (a preschool home instruction experience)
50
The Redwooded Headpecker (school age experience of the same author)
51
A Challenge for Young Learners
52
Developing Self-discipline
53
Organize to Survive
54
Service, Not Chores
55
Sudden Home Schoolers
56
Selecting Learning Materials
57
What Dads Can Do
58
Teaching Several Children
59
Fitting School to Four Children
60
Meeting Family Needs
61
Making Home School Special
62
Educating for Superior Achievement
Appendices — Resource Information
15 of
the 26 (I through Y) are product reviews with illustrations and links
A Instructional
Services
B
High School Distance Education
C
Organizations Serving Home Schools
D
Information by Region for the United States
E
Information for Canada
F
Information for Countries Outside North America
G
A Typical K-12 Curriculum
H
Ideas That Work
I
Operating the Home School
J
Teaching Various Types of Students
K
Periodicals About or for Home Schools
L
General Periodicals
M
Teaching Aids
N
Religious Instruction and Ministry
O
Reading
P
Other Language Arts
Q
Mathematics and Critical Thinking
R
Social Studies
S
Science
T
Music and Art
U
Foreign Languages
V
Work and Business Education and Home Skills
W
Testing Services
X
Reference Works
Y
Mixed Subjects, Mixed Publishers
Z
Suppliers
Forms for Keeping Records
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Instructions for the forms (a chapter)
Bonus Software on the CD-ROM
PCs
in Space
Learning astronomy from a Hubbel telescope scientist. Many photos. This
takes most of the 60+ megabytes on the CD. In fact we had to cut several
items.s
Forms
There are 17 and they can be printed out with a major word processor —
or without one in HTML.
Parenting
tips
36 audio sound bites of about 3/4 minute each. Prepared by Dr. Kay Kuzma
for radio release.
Audio
Bible stories
Two stories, one on the Lord's prayer and one on the woman who touched
Jesus' robe.
Book
and magazine selections
* Three chapters on Christian concerns about hypnosis, spirit possession,
and other forms of Satanic mind control.
* Four good articles from The Home School Digest.
* Six poems for kids from the book, Bubbles. With two illustrations
and notes about the authors.
Reading
lesson
A brief, multimedia, beginning phonics lesson.