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When is Reading Hard?

Janice Campbell — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:38:14 +0000

Reading, Comprehension, and Knowledge Do you enjoy reading? I do. I grew up reading voraciously — new books, old books, books set in the city, the country, in foreign lands, and many books that featured characters that lived lives very...

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Great Education Quotes

Janice Campbell — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:01:15 +0000

Here is a collection of favorite quotes on lifelong learning, learning and freedom, unschooling, institutional schooling, homeschooling and general truth about learning by speakers from C.S. Lewis and Charlotte Mason to Aristotle and Mark Twain.

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How to Teach Your Child: Charlotte Mason’s Education Manifesto

Janice Campbell — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:54:01 +0000

Charlotte Mason's Educational Manifesto declared that not only did children have a right to knowledge, but they also had an appetite for such knowledge, and that appetite, if not squelched, would motivate them to learn.

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Can Learning Go On While Caregiving? Crisis Schooling for Homeschoolers

Janice Campbell — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:52:51 +0000

If you can align your expectations with reality, make adjustments that keep you sane, and focus on priorities and essentials, you'll be able to homeschool while you're a caregiver.

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Learning Styles: Do They Make a Difference?

Janice Campbell — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:03:45 +0000

In the How to Homeschool a Boy series (the three previous posts), I talked about some of the things I learned through the homeschooling years. One of the first things I learned about was learning styles, or preferred ways of...

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Carnival of Homeschooling- The NaNoWriMo Edition

Janice Campbell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:41:16 +0000

Preface Welcome to this hundred-and-umpteenth Carnival of Homeschooling! Because November is National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo or nano), and I’m over 10,000 words into the writing process (and can’t think of anything but writing, writing, and more...

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Charlotte Mason on Teaching With Literature

Janice Campbell — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:40:01 +0000

Stories bring knowledge alive and engage emotional memory in a way that makes abstract principles and arcane facts easy to understand and remember. When learning can be joyous and simple, why make it boring and difficult (and pointless because they are unlikely to remember anything) by using tedious worksheets and canned curriculum? It's never too late to start teaching well. Resolve now to make literature and stories a major part of your educational adventure!

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American and British Literature are Here!

Janice Campbell — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:31:55 +0000

I opened the door this morning, and there on the front steps was a box from Andrew Pudewa’s IEW. The American and British literature levels of Excellence in Literature have arrived and are ready for you! Yesterday was my grandmother’s...

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Teaching from the Known to the Unknown

Janice Campbell — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:46:24 +0000

I was working with the Chaucer unit in Excellence in Literature: British Literature this morning, and thinking about the ways in which The Canterbury Tales can be made accessible to students. These stories are funny, startling, and sometimes appalling, and...

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The Core Curriculum Teaches Connections

Janice Campbell — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:25:35 +0000

Whenever the weather permits, I eat lunch outside on the patio in the edge of the woodland. At this time of year, there are spiderwebs everywhere. It doesn’t matter that I come out every day and sit in the...

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