Helping Insure Your Homeschool Success
With These
Top Homeschooling Books
 

Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many parents never get past the "thinking about it" stage. 

Lisa Whelchel - a homeschooling mother of three - introduces you to fifteen real families. This book documents how they overcome the challenges of their particular homeschooling environments.

This cut to the chase approach deals with common questions of time management, teaching weaknesses, and outside responsibilities, as well as children's age variations, social and sports involvement, learning disabilities, and boredom.

Seeing a wide variety of successfully homeschooling families in action will give parents the confidence to make their own dream of home-based education a reality.

As a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. With this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom.

• Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
• Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
• Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
• Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
• And many more!

With more and more reports on the decline of America's educational system,  millions of parents are considering homeschooling. And now statistics show homeschooled children score higher on the SAT and ACT exams than traditionally schooled children, and by the 8th grade are doing work four grades above their level!

Now, for the more than two million parents who currently homeschool their children and for the countless parents considering this educational option-the founders of Homeschool.com, present a comprehensive, nondenominational guide that can help anyone successfully homeschool their children.

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.

The Moores, who are considered to be the "Grandparents" of the homeschooling movement, use personal experience and extensive research to show readers how to educate their children at home with great success.

Part II: Homeschool Stress: Prevention and Remedy, is covered better here than in any other homeschooling book on the market. The Moores have helped thousands of parents successfully homeschool their children and their book is a must-read for all homeschooling families.

This book is a great place to start your homeschool research if you are new to homeschooling. It's also a great place to refresh your memory if you are a seasoned homeschooler. This book tackles the expected questions new homeschoolers have including the ten things you need to know before you start.

If you are just starting out or are still new then - Part 2: Finding your Goals, Making Your plan, What to join, What to read, Where to Shop, What to Expect is extremely helpful.

Aspects such as learning style, thinking styles are covered and this book gives an extensive overview of each of the popular homeschooling methods, including the Classical approach, Unit Studies, Unschooling, Montessori, Laptop, Charlotte Mason, Eclectic methods, etc. A very useful and extensive resource.

John Holt, longtime private school teacher, maintains that the traditional classroom model no longer works and may, in fact, ruin kids for learning. He exhorts parents to challenge the conventional wisdom and be their children's teachers.

You don't need to be a homeschooler to benefit from Holt's books; you simply need to care about children and education and to have uttered, if only once, "There's got to be a better way."

This book is a compendium of ideas for the family that wants to start or continue homeschooling on a tight budget. You'll find it all here:

• Ideas for making money while staying at home.
• Sources for an inexpensive curriculum.
• Thousands of ideas for affordable teaching tools.
• Hundreds of suggestions for low-cost field trips.
• Ways to save on everything from housing to utilities.
• Ways to get free or low-cost computers.

Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices

Homeschooling can be an intimidating undertaking, but this book helps to ease many fears and also gives you lots of research data and professional opinions to really encourage you in this endeavor.

An excellent source of information for those considering homeschooling. Wonderful insightful comments form other parents who have found themselves in our same positions. It's easy to find the helpful resource information because it is conveniently located all in one place! This is a great book that you can use as a reference source. It's for anyone considering homeschooling.

Nothing beats seeking the voice of experience. Here's a guide that comes direct from the experts: a mother of two previously homeschooled kids chronicles the 83 homeschooling families she surveyed. Their stories make reading this starter kit on homeschooling worthwhile.

The manual provides at-a-glance boxes of insightful anecdotes called "How We Did It," as well as lists at the end of each chapter of helpful books, magazines, Web sites, software, and computer message boards that connect homeschooling households.

An all-inclusive guide for the parents of homeschooled children. Homeschooling, once an alternative to conventional education, is experiencing a boom all across America and has become a highly valued option for more and more mainstream parents.

Homeschooling Companion provides parents with a complete, authoritative, truly balanced guide to every aspect of homeschooling, from the primary years through high school. This all-in-one manual covers the different approaches to homeschooling as well as the specific methods for setting up the home learning environment, including legal requirements, supplies, and lesson plans.

Featuring ready-to-copy pages, this attractive planner can be used year after year after year. Simply choose which of the forms and sheets will be beneficial for you, make copies, and your set. And since you can photocopy and customize and change your planner from year to year, you will never have to purchase another! In addition to the every-imaginable worksheet and planning tool, THE ULTIMATE HOMESCHOOL PLAN BOOK features loads of articles to help guide you on your journey.

You'll find article on how to schedule, how to balance your homeschool, organizing the home, budgeting your money and much more. After all we talked to hundreds of homeschoolers to find out what they wanted and needed in order to efficiently plan their homeschooling year.

This is a fantastic book... and not just for homeschoolers. All parents will benefit from the parenting philosophy described in this excellent book.

Included are many useful web sites and lists of books the author has read and recommends. The introduction, written by a Brown University Assoc. Dean and homeschooling mother, is worth the price of the book by itself. Homeschoolers who have secret doubts and worries about the future will be heartened and reassured by the author's experience with many homeschoolers.

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