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Handwriting

Handwriting
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Help introducing children to form letters correctly as printing, italics and cursive.

Strategies for Dealing with Dysgraphia
Educators expect students to learn from the process of writing, yet dysgraphic students find that the process of writing actually interferes with learning. How, then, can they adequately learn to use the process of writing to express their ideas?

Wonderful Writing: From Runes to Romulan
There's more than one way to write. These days there are, in fact, well over 150 ways to write worldwide, including phonemic alphabets that use symbols to represent individual vowel and consonant sounds. By Rebecca Rupp, HEM J/F 07.

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Teaching Reading
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Homeschool parents tell how they bring the joy of reading into their homes. Reading from a homeschool perspective.

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Unspelling
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Unspelling™ works like this: one person picks a source word. Then, in turn, each of the players must spell this word incorrectly, but with a basis in a sound-analogy with the way another word (or words) is correctly spelled.

How to Teach Any Child to Spell
Let's start our discussion on teaching spelling by dispelling a few myths. Deep down inside you may have known all along these were myths, but if you're like me, you were afraid to trust your gut instincts. By Gayle Graham, M.Ed.

Spelling it Right
To improve and develop their spelling children need to develop an interest in words, feel safe about trying new words, learn about the way words are built up using syllables, basic spelling, patterns of English, memorising strategies, the meanings of words, prefixes and suffixes, and write for their own enjoyment without the fear that they will be criticised. From an English English teacher, which is why the British spellings appear in this description.

Word Birds and Other Games
Word Birds started with simple letter substitution puzzles I created when my children wanted to learn to read. Think of a three-letter word in which you can substitute the vowel and come up with another word. By Sue Smith Heavenrich, HEM S/O 08.

Writing

No More Writer's Block
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Using multiple intelligences to help young writers, By Laurel Schmidt.

Building Writers for the Next Millenium
Barbara Smith has had the privilege to "facilitate" a great group of young people - writers for the coming millennium - who are homeschooled.

How to Motivate Your Children to Write Well
Your children need to see you smile in excitement when they write, no matter the quality. You can (and will) work on improving the mistakes. But at first make sure to give them the praise they need.

Something to Say
Lisa Bugg's delightful article in HEM will help both you and your kids learn to be writers.

Ways to Encourage Reluctant Writer
Beyond storytelling, writing is a valuable skill - for taking notes, organizing thoughts, communicating ideas. So how do we get our reluctant writers to write? Sue Smith-Heavenrich, HEM J/F 99.

What Can Inhibit Writing Development?
Writing problems rarely occur in isolation, and improvements in writing go hand in hand with the development of other non-writing-specific skills. Misunderstood Minds, PBS.

Wretched Writers Welcome
Rebecca Rupp talks about how to learn correct English writing by having a good laugh at the very worse. HEM M/A 08.

Reading Recomendations

Teaching Children to Love
by Childre, Doc Lew
80 games & fun activities for raising balanced children in unbalanced times. 1996 Paperback

What Do I Do Monday?
What Do I Do Monday? (Innovators in Education)
by John Holt
A wonderful book about teaching young children the basics; reading, writing and math.

The Heart of Learning
Spirituality in Education
by Glazer, Steven
Essays about healing, about integrating spiritual development into learning. For all interested in educating from the heart and soul. 1999 Paperback

Every Child Is a Genius
365 Fun and Easy Ways to Develop Your Child's Gifts
by Griffith, Elise M.
This is a great collection of activities for enhancing every child's education. 1998 Paperback.

The Teach Narnia Guide to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by Joanna Steer (Author), Warren Hinkson (Author)
Unveil the literary and cultural richness of the most popular stories of the western world to your children: The Chronicles of Narnia, Boxed Set
by C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator) or just The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)
by C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
 

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