Articles by Anne:
- Obedience – The Key to a Happy Homeschool
- How to Calm Clutter
- A Daily Routine for Real Moms
- Anne’s Hints for Homeschooling a Kindergartener
- Curriculum Planning Worksheet (a Microsoft Excel worksheet you can download and modify for you)
- The Importance of Reading
- Comparing Phonics Methods (especially Abeka and All About Spelling)
- How to Teach Vocabulary
- Teaching Grammar
- Handwriting
- Teaching Handwriting (Part 2)
- Creative Writing
- Review of Abeka Arithmetic
- How Can a Homeschooled Child Do Homework?
- Yes, You Can Play the Piano (PDF)
Articles by Others:
- Why I Love to Homeschool (one mom’s perspective)
- Should we use traditional Christian textbook curricula? (I love this author’s answer… it’s unique!)
- A Voice for Traditional Christian Textbooks
- Real Life Experiences and Modeling Set the Tone — an excellent article by the Moore Foundation
- Homeschooling Grows Up — the largest research study to date of adults who were home educated.
- Are you curious what a “copybook” from the 1800’s would look like?
- Homeschool without Homework — an explanation of the Charlotte Mason viewpoint of education.
- What is “Narration“?
- What is a notebook, and how can you use one to fuel the fires of learning in your children?
- Various Articles on Homeschooling, by the Notgrass family
- Your brain dominance and language learning
- Gaps Are Good – an article to encourage you when you’re sure your kids aren’t learning it all!
- An A for Homeschooling – a journalist questions why public schools can’t accomplish what parents can
- Over 200 Summertime Activities
- Organizational Skills for Homeschooling Families — from the “Fly Lady”
- Literacy Today: What Is Wrong and How Can We Fix It? — excellent article!
- The Ongoing Debate in Reading Instruction: Finding a Balance (discusses phonics vs. whole language)
- Language Arts the Easy Way
- Many Americans Can Read But Can’t Comprehend, by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. — I highly recommend this article!
- What It Costs to Homeschool
- Are you going to a homeschooling convention soon? Teaching Home has some great advice for you!!
- Supplementing Sonlight Curriculum
- The Teaching of Arithmetic: The Story of an Experiment tells why public school arithmetic programs have failed to properly educate our children.
- Twelve Step Program for the Stressed-Out Homeschool Mom, by Terri Camp
- Age-Appropriate Chores Lists
- Stories, Thoughts, and Homeschool Tips – Each month, Christian Perspective sends out a free newsletter with a short story, thought, homeschool tip, hymn/poem, and update. Archives are available to read on the website–the stories make great read-a-louds!
- Socialization: A Guide for Homeschoolers – Scriptures, questions, examples and more to help you sort through activities and understand the socialization issue. Written by a homeschool graduate.
- Rush Little Baby — How the push for infant academics may actually be a waste of time – or worse.
