Homeschooling 101

Beginning Homeschooling 101

	Dobson, Linda - The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start. Linda shares homeschool approaches, learning styles, myths about homeschooling, "what I wish I had known" tips, first year hurdles, and a special "week in the life" section that lets you peek in on real families homeschooling.
	Dobson, Linda - The Homeschooling Book of Answers: 101 Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices. A compilation of wise thoughts from a wide variety of noted homeschool experts. An "outside the box" view of homeschooling and unschooling.
	Griffith, Mary - The Homeschooling Handbook: From Preschool to High School, a Parent's Guide. A thorough and inclusive introductory book for homeschooling. If you're only going to read one homeschooling book, make it this one! Highly recommended for beginning homeschoolers.
no image available	Kaseman, Larry & Susan - Taking Charge Through Home Schooling. Describes various homeschool options. Useful for beginning homeschoolers as well as experienced ones. Empowering!
	Kealoha, Anna - Trust the Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Home Schooling and Alternative Learning. Kealoha emphasizes fostering a love of learning and self-motivation. This book is an excellent resource for homeschoolers.
	Llewellyn, Grace and Amy Silver - Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School. Want your child to develop a lifelong love of learning? Grace and Amy show how parents can keep the joy in learning by respecting and encouraging natural curiosity and interests, and by removing forced learning and arbitrary learning timetables. Practical advice for incorporating fresh ideas about education.
	Moore, Raymond and Dorothy - The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook. Raymond and Dorothy Moore are referred to by some as the "parents of modern homeschooling." This handbook addresses preventing and alleviating homeschool stress; waiting for children to be developmentally ready to learn rather than forcing a learning timetable; volunteering and service as important learning tasks; standardized testing; learning the basics; and a few examples of effective homeschooling families.
	Moore, Raymond and Dorothy - Home-Style Teaching: A Handbook for Parents and Teachers. Raymond and Dorothy Moore reveal: how to begin teaching at home; teaching secrets not commonly practiced, such as making reading easy and re-motivating a burned-out child; how to teach thinking and writing; your child's best socializer; readiness and the truth about super-babies.
	Hendrickson, Borg - Home School: Taking the First Step. A guide to homeschooling, written by a high school teacher. This book advises freeing your children from a "schoolish" education and helping them take advantage of all the wonderful opportunities offered by life.
no image available	Hood, Mary - The Relaxed Home School. A book for parents who are seeking a more "user friendly" approach to homeschooling than the "school-at-home" approach. Explains a version of unschooling from a Christian perspective.
	Rupp, Rebecca - Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool through High School. If you are looking for a guide to tell you what your child should learn when, you may be interested in this book. Also discusses pros and cons of different methods of homeschooling, from school-at-home to unschooling.
	Marsha Ransom, John Taylor Gatto - Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling. For information specific to Oklahoma, you can't beat the HERO website you're looking at now. If you're looking for the most basic, general information on homeschooling and you want to read it in bed rather than online, this is your book.
	Kaufeld, Jennifer - Homeschooling For Dummies. Like the Complete Idiot's Guide above, this offers basic information on homeschooling.
	Pride, Mary - Mary Prides' Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling.
	Wise, Jessie & Susan Wise Bauer - The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. How to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school.

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