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The everything guide to homeschooling : all you need to create the best curriculum and learning environment for your child / Sherri Linsenbach.

Summary:

"A parents' guide to homeschooling"-- Provided by publisher.

When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. In this book, homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with all the information, inspiration, and encouragement you need to easily and successfully homeschool your children from grades K-12. This complete guide contains information on: the Common Core standards and how they impact families; creating plans for typical homeschool days, including schedules and activities; utilizing curriculum resources, strategies, and methods; managing specific learning styles and special needs. This guide is packed full of ideas to make homeschooling your child easy, affordable, and, most of all, fun. With ideas for tackling social issues and motivating your child, this is the only reference you'll need to keep home education exciting and ensure your child's success!--Adapted from back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781440590696
ISBN: 1440590699
Physical Description: 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Home education expectations -- Learning styles and teaching methods -- Start homeschooling today -- Approaches to homeschooling -- Socialization and social skills -- Understanding unschooling and unit studies -- Fun learning activities -- Frugal homeschooling -- Choosing a curriculum -- Common core state standards -- Homeschool schedules -- Homeschool record keeping -- Organizing your homeschool -- Typical and atypical days -- Homeschooling one or several -- The single-parent homeschool -- Working parents who homeschool -- Homeschooling in the early years -- Homeschooling in the elementary years -- Homeschooling in the middle years -- Homeschooling in the teen years -- Children with special needs -- Veteran homeschool parents -- College and beyond.