by Kay Chance | Building Family Relationships, Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts, Teaching Tips
Homeschoolers seem to be obsessed with reading aloud, but how beneficial is simply reading books with your kids? Actually there are three major benefits that you may not have ever thought of. [The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
When we started homeschooling copywork and dictation were completely new to me. Even though I was a public school English teacher, I never encountered these methods in any of my courses or reading. Kind of sad. Even in the public school setting, these would have been...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
[The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Sitting down to plan out my children’s schedule for the year, I was suddenly overcome with how long one particular subject would take. Language Arts had so many components! Spelling,...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts
Do you need a simplified approach to teaching Language Arts that works for multiple grade levels? Then use natural methods such as copywork. Copywork is when a student copies a letter, word, sentence, or passage. Don’t let the simplicity of the method fool you,...
by Kay Chance | Encouraging & Equipping You, How to Homeschool, Learning with Living Books, Teaching Language Arts, Uncategorized
Jack London and Robert Louise Stevenson had something in common—something your children can also share with them. They both used copywork as a tool to improve their writing. [The following post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure here.] Copywork What...
