Write With the Best is the program I use to make sure my children learn to write well. I have to tell you, I searched for a good composition program for years! I don’t even remember how many programs I tried and discarded, so when I recommend Write With the Best, that is a strong recommendation.
Write With the Best (by Jill Dixon, who has a B.S. and a Master’s degree in Education) comes in two volumes. The cover states that it is recommended for grades 3 through 12 but I personally wouldn’t start any composition program until the fifth grade. The two volumes combined have seventeen units, and since I do not like rushing through such a program you could easily spend 3 to 4 years going through the assignments in the two volumes of Write With the Best.
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For some perspective, the author of Home Schooling: The Right Choice
The thing that struck me the most about Home Schooling: The Right Choice
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Everyone – or I should say – everyone who makes reading a habit, has at least one book that they have read that they can say “changed their life.” The Seven Laws of the Learner
While this book may seem that it is designed for educators alone it is, in fact, a must-read for parents, employers, and anyone who is in a position of leadership. I was introduced to this book in a church study group. And again, I am not exagerating when I say it changed my life.
You have to understand, of course, where I was in my life at the time to understand why it had such an impact on me. The year was 1993 and I was in my third year of home-schooling. My oldest child and only daughter was in third grade. A year before, the community we lived in (Homestead, FL) had been devastated by Hurricane Andrew and the effects of living with the destruction which still surrounded us was, to say the least, producing a lot of stress in my life. I found myself becoming impatient with my daughter and the speed (or lack of) with which she was learning her lessons. Thank God that The Seven Laws of the Learner
The major thing I learned from this book – the life-changing part for me – is this: if my child is not learning it is my fault. Wow. You mean the responsibility for my child’s learning (or not) is solely mine? Yes.
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I have never personally used Sonlight curriculum
but everyone that I know who has used it has always told me how much they love it. In my quest to help you make informed choices concerning your home-schooling adventure I thought I would ask some home-schoolers who use Sonlight to tell me why they use it and then pass that knowledge on to you.
So…I put out a tweet on Twitter asking for anyone who has used Sonlight to DM me and we would connect so that I could get the 411…okay you get the picture.
I had two people respond with answers to my questions and I found their responses to be enlightening. I think you will too.
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A couple of weeks ago I featured a post by a home-schooling friend who goes by the name of CaptiousNut. His blog Marginalizing Morons is advertised as “an online home-school curriculum, for adults!” He has frequently commented on my posts and in his comment on “Have You Ever Done This?” he mentioned that he finds workbooks to be helpful in handling those “daily disasters” that can come along and throw all your home-schooling plans out of whack.
Some time later I was thinking about this and reflecting on all the different workbooks I have used over two decades of home-schooling and so, in the interest of helping you find workbooks to mitigate your own discombobulated days, I am offering my list of six workbooks that work!
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