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100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum, published in 2005 and available in trade paperback and Kindle download, guides you through the process of choosing curriculum, offering “Top Picks” from each subject area, narrowing down to a manageable number of choices using questionnaires and charts. Parents no longer need to sort through the entire universe of [...]

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The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine offers homeschoolers a variety of resources and encouragement as well as ways to learn about the latest and greatest educational resources out there. The Old Schoolhouse is a glossy, full-color magazine, produced quarterly, packed with information and articles that homeschoolers enjoy reading. The magazine often features works written or created by [...]

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A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola provides an introduction and overview to the educations principles espoused by Charlotte Mason. Among the principles contained in this volume are: recognizing a “living book”; using narration; teaching reading, spelling, composition, and vocabulary; appreciating great art classical music, poetry, plays, and novels; keeping a Nature Notebook (for science); [...]

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Classical Conversations offers both community classes and curriculum resources for individual use. Foundations is the curriculum guide for K4 to 6th grade, Essentials for 3rd and up, and Challenge for 7th to 12th. The community classes meet throughout the US and Canada. From the website: “Our three curriculum programs support your home-centered education by providing [...]

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Home Learning Year by Year provides a structured plan for homeschooling curricula from K through 12th grade. The book includes standards that students should meet at each level, additional readings, as well as assistance for parents to determine what is essential knowledge and what can be used for supplemental study or projects. Home Learning Year [...]

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Tapestry of Grace is a unit study style, classical, core curriculum for History, LA, Geography, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Bible/Church History, Government. It has both printed or digital options and covers material on a four-year cycle with four classical levels. Tapestry of Grace 3

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The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling, available in trade paperback and Kindle download, is by Debra Bell and was published in 2005. The text is written with a Christian perspective and covers deciding to homeschool, choosing curriculum, organizing and planning, preventing burnout, what to teach-when and how, homeschooling teens, using computers in homeschooling, solutions to common [...]

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Educating the Whole-Hearted Child is a tremendous source of comfort for new and experienced homeschoolers. Guiding you with seasoned advice and encouragement, the Clarksons show you how to combine discipleship and education to create a God-designed program—the home-centered, whole-book approach to lessons. Using this revised and expanded edition with four main sections—home, learning, methods, and [...]

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The Complete Home Learning Source Book is, in the words of the publisher, “an exhaustive and comprehensive sourcebook provides parents and teachers with information on all the resources needed to plan a well-balanced curriculum for the home or the classroom, from preschool through high school. The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook not only covers basic academic [...]

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Home Schooling: The Right Choice : An Academic, Historical, Practical, and Legal Perspective, published in 2001, provides an intellectual justification for Christian homeschooling by pointing up the deficiencies in public schools and assuring parents of the value of a homeschool education. The book also contains discussion about the legal issues surrounding homeschooling. Home Schooling: The [...]

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