Purpose
A parent can teach a child in a way like no other. Define the skills necessary for home school by grade level and include linkage to text books, exercises, videos, etc. as appropriate.
Theory
By working with one's children, this allows one to not only setup for future lives, but to triangulate to one's own inner children and develop them. As you do to the outside, you do to the inside, etc.
Principles
- Every child is different, what works for one may not work for another
- Try to use multiple aspects of the mind at once e.g., clapping while working on times tables.
Place Holder
- Mention Dianne Craft's work
- Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit roots for teaching vocabulary
Pre-Kindergarten
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Try to combine memorization activities with physical activities to engage more parts of the mind.
Fourth Grade
Language Arts
Grammar
- Antonyms
- Capitalization / Punctuation
- Homonyms
- Parts of Speech
- Prefixes
- Plurals
- Sentence Structure
- Spelling
- Suffixes
- Synonyms
- Verbs
- Vowels
- Word Usage Errors
Reading
- Authors Purpose
- Cause / Effect
- Compare / Contrast
- Main Idea
- Parts of a Book
- Reading Comprehension
- Sequencing
- Stories
- Vocabulary Builders
Fifth Grade
Language Arts
Grammar
- Adjectives / Adverbs
- Analogies
- Antonyms / Synonyms
- Capitalization / Contractions
- General Grammar Practice
- Noun / Pronoun
- Plurals
- Spelling
- Word Usage Errors
- Verb Study
Reading
- Authors Purpose
- Cause / Effect
- Comprehension
- Context Clues
- Fact / Opinion
- Main Idea
- Run-Ons and Fragment Sentences
- Story Elements
- Vocabulary Builders
General Resources
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade
Ninth Grade
Tenth Grade
Eleventh Grade
Twelfth Grade
Special Needs
For those unable to home school, there may be alternatives such as supplemental instruction and filling in gaps where possible.