July 18, 2012 - Posted by Amy- 3 Comments
Last week at the library I was browsing the children’s fiction picture book section. My eyes fell on these two books, which were displayed face-out on the shelf. Perfect. Classic children’s stories my kids don’t know yet. What I love about this author is that he tells the stories in a traditional way, without throwing [...]
July 15, 2012 - Posted by Amy- 4 Comments
I hope you are loving this blog series on teaching beginning reading at home! Lydia is just getting started with kindergarten homeschooling, and we are loving it. One huge advantage of homeschooling is that you can customize your teaching style to fit the needs of your child. For example, last week Lydia was working on [...]
July 11, 2012 - Posted by Amy- 5 Comments
After looking at a few options, I decided to use Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers for Lydia’s primary beginning reading text. BOB books come in sets. Here are the books found in Set 1. Today I will show you how I did the very first lesson with the very first book a few weeks [...]
July 9, 2012 - Posted by Amy- 1 Comment
After a month of kindergarten homeschooling, I’m happy to report that Lydia is reading chapter books! Just kidding. Our preschool homeschool approach has been pretty laid-back. We have lots of library visits and discussions about interesting topics. Without using any formal curriculum, Lydia learned the basics: colors, shapes, numbers 1-10, recognizing capital letters, etc. Since [...]
July 8, 2012 - Posted by Amy- 3 Comments
I am excited to tell you that this week I will be writing a series of blog posts on how we are teaching beginning reading as part of Lydia’s kindergarten homeschooling! There is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is certainly more than one way to teach beginning reading. I will [...]