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 HOMESCHOOLINGResources to help "teach school subjects to one's children at home" (Webster).ALSO SEE: MARRIAGE & FAMILY  FREE - & ALMOST FREE - RESOURCES
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Parents' Guide to the Spiritual Mentoring of Teens is one of the greatest tools you can use to show your teens how to integrate faith in God with everyday life. Solid, proven advice and techniques will enable you to succeed in the changing parent-teen relationship and ignite in your children the passion to become wholehearted disciples.
(no longer available thru CBD) With more than 33,000 entries selected in consultation with top educators and definitions written specifically for children eight and up, this up-to-date and kid-friendly dictionary is designed to make kids' enthusiastic about learning. Featuring notes on synonyms, homonyms, prefixes, spelling and word histories, as well as 750 photographs and illustrations, this unique dictionary will make a great addition to any resource shelf.
This award-winning typing program is educational, entertaining, and motivating. It teaches all keyboarding basics, proper hand positions, and speed, and accuracy. Kids can learn in English or Spanish. Sit back, relax, and watch your kids get to the head of the class with this award-winning program, preferred by teachers and parents. For Children ages 6—12
High-profile bailouts, controversial economic stimulus packages, universal health care ... Are we slipping into socialism? Senator DeMint says yes - but it's not too late to reverse course! Offering a comprehensive action plan, he shows how conservative legislation can reduce debt, fix Social Security, provide tax credits to pay for health insurance, stop America's cultural decline, and more.
Endow your kids with a legacy more precious than gold - give them a growing faith in Christ. Focusing on the first 12 years of life, this readable guide offers practical insight on how to mold your children's spiritual development and God-given strengths; teach them solid Christian values and customize a spiritual growth plan for your family.
With real, inspiring stories of faith in action, How Now Shall We Live? encourages readers to present the gospel in a way that will capture the imaginations, minds and hearts of a culture that is entrenched in the lies of relativism and self-before it's too late.
Sit down to enjoy this incredibly practical and oh-so encouraging homeschool help book. Broken down into short, easy-to-read paragraphs on topics all homeschoolers deal with - from scheduling to learning styles to math games - Homeschooling with TLC in the Elementary Grades will show you not only how to teach, but how to teach with joy. Filled with practical tips, new and seasoned parents alike will find ideas that they can easily put to use in their own family.
(A very effective learning system that involves examining a given book from several different perspectives: art, geography, history, science, etc.)
Explode the Code’s child-drawn illustrations and easy, repetitive exercises provide a friendly learning experience. Progressively building up a store of phonics recognition, pronunciation and reading skills, your students will soon be on their way to acquiring beginning to intermediate reading skills. Explode the Code’s phonics workbooks contain exercises that guide students through matching, reading, spelling, writing, copying, and more. Easy, fun and proven, Explode the Code is a favorite with moms and kids!
Your one-stop homeschool shop! Step inside and find a comprehensive collection of reasonably priced homeschool curriculum. You'll find a wide selection of manipulatives, study guides, unit studies, and all you need to teach your children at home.
Behind today's headlines stretch more than 200 years of rich American history. Encourage your children to learn about our country's past so they can understand the influences that shape its present--and direct its future. Organized chronologically and thematically, this comprehensive guide pairs stunning illustrations with accessible articles about important events, trends, patterns, ideas, and people. Ages 8 and up.
(Caution: While certainly not revisionist-free writing, overall the text does a decent job of presenting the facts.) Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
(no longer available thru CBD) Volume 2: Little-known (and even less taught!) historical information brings U.S. history from World War I to the Reagan years to life in the second volume of America The Last Best Hope. Conservative scholar and former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett offers an entertaining, enjoyable volume of history that will be treasured by readers young and old.
Volume 1: New York Times best-selling author William J. Bennett underscores the heritage of how our nation became truly great and even today draws millions of people yearning to breathe free to its shores. Get to know the pillars of our country's founding-not as dusty pages in history, but as the flesh and blood that set this great experiment into motion. It's an inspirational reacquainting with history that will lead you to embrace America's greatness once again.
"L is for Lincoln, M is for Madison." Teach your kids the ABCs of American history with this "stars and stripes" book. Lynne Cheney - wife of the vice president - reinforces the godly values, ideals, people, and events that make our country great. Features delightful illustrations and explanatory notes. Ages 4 to 8.
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