04.28.10
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The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook
If you are thinking about homeschooling, or are struggling with a educational homeschooling curriculum that is difficult to use, let Dr. Ray and Dorothy Moore show you how to make homeschooling an easy-to-live-with family adventure in learning. This low-stress, low-cost program shows you how to build a curriculum around your childs needs and interests – and around a realistic family schedule. Instead of a cut-and-dried approach, youll discover the freedom of a flexible program that encourages creativity and initiative.
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04.25.10
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Home Learning Year by Year : How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the countrys foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features:
The integral subjects to be covered within each grade
Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level
Recommended books to use as texts for every subject
Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your childs personal interests
Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness
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04.16.10
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Rosetta Stone French Level 1 & 2 Homeschool Edition
Currently in use in more than 7,000 schools and 55 countries, Rosetta Stones computerized foreign language program provides instruction in more than 24 languages including English for ESL students. Rosetta Stones step-by-step presentation utilizes photos that portray real world situations. By matching the spoken phrase and image correctly children learn a foreign language the natural way, by associating sounds and later written words with objects and ideas. There is no translation, no memorization of vocabulary words, no grammar drills or any of the other dreary methods typically associated with learning a new language.
Rosetta Stone develops reading skills by having students match written phrases to images, associating the words and the meaning directly.
Rosetta Stone makes it possible for students to record their voices and play it back for comparison with the voice of the native speaker. A voiceprint analyzes the students pronunciation in detail.
Dictation is another hard to find feature that Rosetta Stone excels in. Your child simply clicks on the picture and types what he hears. The program checks the typed work for accuracy, indicates errors and allows your child to make corrections before proceeding.
With the Student Management System, parents can create lesson plans for each child. You determine program content, language skills, learning activities and proficiency levels. Parents in states that require a paper trail will be delighted to know that the Rosetta Stone program monitors and records each students time, study and scores, which can be printed or exported to another folder.
The first level Rosetta Stone software program has 92 lessons, and 3500 real-life images. Visual aids plus written text will appeal strongly to the visual child.
The second level of Rosetta Stones computerized foreign language program adds an additional 400 hours of accelerated study, with over 4500 real-life images, video clips and phrases in 118 lessons.
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