book list

[lilyka]

OK I have searched and searched and really need to get on with my lifeso I know this question has been asked about a thousand times but i will ask it again. I am making a recommended reading list to send out to everyone who contacts our HS group. so what would you put on it. I need titles and authors. Also if you can giuve a brief discription such as traditional homeschooling/unschooing/a[plies to everyone whatever. we are just trying to get a nice balance of learning styles.

TIA

[Mamax3]

OH, I have one! (raises hand and jumps out of seat)

The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. EXCELLENT! He talks about the importance of reading to children and how much it affects their ability to learn anything and everything. It is truly an inspirational book whether you are a homeschooler, teacher, parent of a student in ps or unschooler.

[I Believe in Fairies]

"The Well Trained Mind" is one I could not live without!

[khrisday]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling
You Are Your Child's First Teacher

[laralou]

Homeschooling for Excellence

[phathui5]

Homeschooling the Early Years by Linda Dobson
The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt

[CAmomto1]

Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto - Good for anyone considering taking their kids out of public school!

[Patti Ann]

The Homeschooling Handbook-Mary Griffith

Getting Started on Home Learning-Rebecca Rupp This was very inspirational to me.

Homeschooling on a Shoestring-unsure of author

Home Learning Year by Year-Rebecca Rupp-design your own curriculum

Honey For A Child's Heart- Gladys Hunt-The use of books in family life-annotated list of books 0-14 Has some good suggestions on good books to read to your children

I second Dumbing Us Down and The Well Trained Mind

Patti

[NoHiddenFees]

Creative Homeschooling for Gifted Children by Lisa Rivero. Great resource for any homeschooling family.

[lilyka]

Thanks you guys but keep 'em coming. I have to fill up 2 full pages. give me ones that you may have even found marginally helpful.

[khrisday]

Pagan Homeschooling, Seven Times the Sun, Beyond the Rainbow Bridge

[phathui5]

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann

A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola

Slow and Steady Get Me Ready: A Parents' Handbook for Children from Birth to Age 5 by June R. Oberlander

The Big Book of Home Learning series by Mary Pride- Her books have a lot of good resources in them.

The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn- This book is geared towards teenagers who are either out of traditional school already or thinking about leaving it.

[CAmomto1]

Learning All the Time, John Holt - great insight into how little kids learn, and why we should stay out of their way!

Real-Life Homeschool Stories (author ??) - good for showing a variety of families and how they go about hs'ing. My only complaint was that I didn't really see my family in it and felt there were many examples of Christian hs'ers in it. (Not a bad thing, just not relevant to me)

[Lotusmama]

Trust the Children by Anna Kealoha-kinda covers the whole spectrum, if you pick and choose what you want. It's a HUGE list of activities, resources etc.

How Children Fail & How Children Learn by John Holt (Big second for Learning All the Time), definitely unschooling

Why Homeschooling Matters by David Gutterson (?) I think that's his name, applies to everyone, it's the author's attempt to defend his choice to homeschool his kids, even though he's a high school english teacher, aimed at someone who knows nothing about hsing, so it's a great book to give to skeptical in-laws or neighbors

The Mothering Magazine anthology on home learning, this was the first book I ever read on hsing, and the library no longer has a copy, waaah, it was literally read to pieces, applies to everyone, it's an anthology of hsing essays, mostly from the '80's.

Ali