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Summer Reading List

Janice Campbell — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:59:17 +0000

What’s in your to-be-read (TBR) pile? Mine is teetering way past the point of reason, and has overflowed onto a small bookshelf beside my chair, plus a few piles on the floor, to say nothing of those waiting in my...

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Read for Fun; Learning Happens Along the Way

Janice Campbell — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:43:14 +0000

As parents, we can't begin to teach our children everything they need to know, but we can teach them to read, and make sure they have plenty of good books. Truths carried to the heart through the power of story wil linger far longer than anything that comes through a lecture or a worksheet. As you begin the new school year, make time for reading, and I promise, learning will happen.

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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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