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Bauer, S. Wise. The Well-trained Mind : A Guide to Classical Education at Home.
It will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. PC 371.042 BAU

Bell, Debra. The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Teens.
Spells out both the advantages and challenges of homeschooling your teens through high school. An aid in creating your curriculum plan for your teen's high school years. PC 371.042 BEL

Dobson, Linda.  The Homeschooling Book of Answers:  The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices.
Written in question and answer format with the answers supplied by a panel of homeschoolers, homeschooling experts and even homeschooled students, this book offers several experiences and viewpoints. PC 371.042 DOB

Hainstock, Elizabeth G.  Teaching Montessori in the Home:  The Preschool Years.  
Gives a brief history of Maria Montessori and then goes on to describe the methods used, and gives detailed instructions for all the exercises and demonstrations which are used with preschool-aged children. PC 371.39 HAI

Lee, Kathy H. & Lesli M. Richards. The Homegrown Preschooler: Teaching Your Kids in the Places They Live.
Parents will learn how to transform their home into a environment that rivals the best preschool classroom by finding exciting learning opportunities in everyday occurrences, from using laundry to teach sorting to exploring growth cycles in the garden. Inclues simple-to-start ideas, advice, and activities, as well as organizational tips, recipes, and more than 200 activities that are easy to pull together. PC 371.042 LEE

Perry, John and Kathy.  The Complete Guide to Homeschooling.
Presents step-by-step instructions for tailoring a curriculum to the individual, integrating academic home schooling with public school extracurricular opportunities, maintaining family energy and peace, and developing diverse community-based enrichment studies. PC 371.42 PER

Rupp, Rebecca.  Home Learning Year by Year:  How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool through High School.
Features the integral subjects to be covered within each grade, standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level, recommended books to use as texts for every subject, guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests, suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness. PC 371.042 RUP

 

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