How-To's for Teaching: Academics
If you are searching for ways to make your teaching easier and faster, you'll find it here!
Maximize
your children’s learning and minimize your sweat factor in the
process.
Whatever type of curriculum you use, and however you teach, these materials
are a useful supplement.
The article, Just Starting to Homeschool, is available free to you for your personal reading, in PDF file format.
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So you
are teaching your children at home. Where do you start? How
can you do it better? And how can you avoid getting burned out doing
all this? |
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How to Make Optimal Homeschool To-Do Charts $3.50 Read the table of contents.
A practical how-to description of a plan for academic and domestic success with your children. Developing the habit of daily checking off academics, chores, grooming, athletics and music on to-do charts will lead to “Whistling-Dixie” triumphant years for your children. First we examine why making to-do charts ensures homeschooling success for the entire family. Then we look at how to design charts using some winning strategies you may never have thought of. Knowing what to do and why to do it will make your charts work for you and your children in the most optimum way possible. Includes a sample chart. |
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How to answer the outside (or inner) voices that ask
you:
What in the world are you doing? Spiritual,
social, academic, and personal advantages, all stacked up and listed together
to buttress your resolve to home school and to stick with it. |
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Consistently
our most popular workshop! Jaw-dropping
techniques to hot-wire the brain with any subject matter. The fastest
route and shortest distance to mastery of new information. We get
reviews of “Wow!” and “Superb!” from seminar attendees
on this one. Teaching tools you’ll use every day from here
on out. |
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A comment emailed to Renee from Mrs. Bossle in Florida:
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When does the pursuit of education get out of line with the Heavenly Father’s purposes for us? Learn to recognize the tell-tale signs. A growing number of homeschoolers are facing one extreme or the other. Many are not schooling at all (un-schooling), while others are making academics their god (idolatry). Find out what a perfect “Garden of Eden” education is supposed to look like, and how to get there. Also describes the earmarks of a wholesome Biblically-based education. |
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How
to occupy and delight preschoolers for hours with things you already own!
You’ll grow their I.Q.s, too! |
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The Right Stuff
$4.50 Guaranteed
to save you hassle! Spare yourself the expense and academic waste
of both time and energy by choosing just the right materials. What
to look for, and what NOT to buy.
(Includes
homeschool how-to's
#s 17 & 83
below, and #52.) |
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This is a companion
to 12 Optimum Ways to Trigger the Brain. That
one covers how to teach; The Right Stuff one gives
you a plan for the optimal materials to use. Mrs.
L. of Colorado Springs wrote that "The Right Stuff is an understatement!
This is a gold mine, Renee. Thank you, thank you!" A mom
emailed that she is "simply
loving your "Right Stuff" info. Poring through it and gleaning,
gleaning, gleaning! Soooo wonderful. Thank you for your incredible
time and effort on this. What a great encouragement!" |
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Proceed
from chaos to a look of culture. Ten little pointers developed for
inner city kids whose writing was illegible. In one lesson their
writing went from night to day. This isn’t calligraphy, and
it's not re-teaching the old standardized method. You'll love the
results.
(Included
in #81, above.) |
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Fire
up an appetite for... and an attitude about...writing and
the clearly laid out aptitude will be welcomed through the back
door! A winning strategy for a difficult area. Read the table
of contents.
(Note: this item is ncluded in #81,
above.) |
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Spell-Along! $7.50 Your spelling-list-giver on demand!
Students: No more waiting for someone else to give you your spelling lists! Teachers: No more tedious lists to dictate!! Being a good speller is a sign of being a well educated person, whether in the educational setting or in the workplace. This 68-minute audio CD and CD answer booklet teaches 360 spelling words that come up in everyday situations. Less frequently used words are not as important to learn how to spell as common words that are challenging. Here’s how it works: Listen to the word, then write it down in the time allotted for you to do so. Then, check your spellings against the list that is in the CD booklet. Each spelling list is on its own track on the audio CD, so when a student has conquered one list, he can go directly to the following list the next time, without having to listen through previous lists. These 360 words can be mastered at each students’ individual pace - anywhere from a month to several years, depending on how fast they want to fly through the lists! Students anywhere from 3rd to 12th grade will find these important words to master. The words range from “busy” to “descendant” to “chivalrous” and “indispensable”. Spell-Along also teaches the technique of using and creating memory hooks for better retention without only rote memorization. Spell-Along is a great way to conquer spelling and not let it slip by day after day simply because the teacher doesn’t have time to administer word lists! Spelling can now be one less thing for teachers to have to think about! |
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This is also covered by audio CD #4 in Renee's homeschool how-to CD's. |
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Are
you butting heads over and over? Are daily battles with academic
resistance wearing you out? Find out what are the specific root
causes of resistance (this booklet discusses eight). Armed with
new, well-focused, concrete strategies, you'll see progress again as early
as tomorrow.
And,
watch Renee present this live workshop on a DVD. |
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Put
the sparkle and joy back in your child's eyes. Motivation is so
important that without it, there is no education. With it, students
can begin to grasp what it means to be made in the limitless image of
the Almighty Creator and become lifelong lovers of learning. Get
these simple principles under your belt and watch the hard part of the
job disappear from your teaching. |
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Sometimes a little spur, a little motivation, will help a child over a rough patch of academics or an overwhelming chore. Choose to give them these no cost rewards instead of another “thing”. Detailed descriptions of clever, unusual rewards we think you’ll have a hard time finding anywhere else. |
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For 4th grade and up. (11 pages;
#14) Inspiring!
Read the table of contents,
including the lists of names.
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Subjects
and areas to study sometime, some way, somewhere. You may make unlimited copies of this list. |
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A
fabulously easy new way to learn to multiply at breakneck speed.
Also includes
Action Academics …a
foolproof way to conquer 13 stubborn academic problems -- errors made
repeatedly by adults . . . little problems that make a big difference. |
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Want your child to spell to, too and two the right way every time from
now on? Your children can master them, and they'll stay mastered.
Give your child this lasting academic confidence. This little compilation
of 13 ditties does it! Simple to memorize . . . tough to forget.
Compiled by an exasperated high school English teacher who wanted these
problems conquered for life at the elementary level. |
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How to handle a gifted child. Unique problems, challenges and solutions!
(Includes #53—Humpty Dumpty Intellectual Stretch.)
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Get your kids thinking like
inventors with this pocketful of questions to ask anytime, anywhere.
Ask these simple stretching questions of any story or information to produce
brand new thinking, then watch your young pupils become bright-eyed and bushy-tailed the minute
you ask them. They won't respond to what is--they'll generate what isn't! Cultivate
Edison-type thinkers in your home and you'll be the talk of the town.
(This is included in item #8, Teaching Gifted Children.) |
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A method to teach grammar with shapes for easy right-brain recall. Plus, tips on spelling. Read the table of contents.
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Every
student needs to hear these study strategies at least once. Grab
this scholastic lifeline. Cut the waste of time; package the content
for strong recall. Take 2 students spending equal time studying
the same material -- one will emerge with it, the other won't. The
study skills make the difference. A must for the college-bound,
but start it with your 4th grader. |
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What is the matter with this statement? "Do you walk to work or take your lunch?" It's a non sequitur. Trade in naiveté for bedrock thinking. Learn how to detect the logical errors in scores of statements manipulators (such as the media and cults) attempt to use on you. Hilarious examples for developing serious mental survival skills. |
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Double the great classics' contribution to your academics
by the superb questions you ask: open-ended questions that direct your
child to think about the great purposes of Christ. Includes questions
for sixteen novels by: C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane
Austen, Emily Bronte, John Steinbeck, etc. |
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Wonderfully
creative activities and questions. |
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A great read-aloud of Cinderella, all mixed up. Use as a short drama piece for children who want to entertain their friends. They will say, "again, do it again!" (This item is included in homeschool how-to's #s 51 and 31.) |
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Click here to view the table of contents. Your
children may be learning to write well these days, but are they
learning to speak persuasively? ...like Patrick Henry, who said
“Give me liberty or give me death!” Herein lies much
of a child’s future power to influence others. Learn how to
prepare and deliver 20 different types of speeches (each, 3 minutes or
less). Directions for each speech are winsome and funny!
(This item includes
several famous speeches, & homeschool how-to's #s 13
& 41, too.) |
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Creation
vs. Evolution $2.50
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Audio book of Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England $45.00
Teach your children the entire history of England without even cracking a book. Nobody could write it quite like Dickens…. A rare find. |
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Music and the Arts
...to
the glory of our Heavenly Father |
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How to
Successfully Train Your Child to Master a Musical Instrument
$3.00 |
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An illustrated story of the life of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) that shows God’s hand on the work of a genius. Original ink drawings by Theanna Sparrow (one of the illustrators for the Christian Mother Goose book).
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Trade refrigerator pictures for living room masterpieces with this simple five-step method. Begin by getting your three-year-old tracing those coloring book pictures instead of coloring them, and then… |
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Old hymn melodies stunningly blended with classical solo piano (and some cello). These are musical arrangements you’ve never heard before, but now will want to hear over and over. You will buy one, rush right out to give it to your best friend, and turn around to order ten more! A must hear. Ruth Knutson began playing in churches in sixth grade and has continued to bless congregations both nationally and internationally for over forty years. Also check out the beautiful new Be Still My Soul audio CD with cello and viola. |
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Historical fiction novel by Ruth Ann Ridley. A
gripping story for adults and young adults alike, this is a love story,
a tragedy, a comedy, a pageant and, above all, a saga of the soul.
This is the untold story of the man whom many consider the greatest composer
who ever lived, the story of Bach’s love for his family, his battles
with fools and his passion for God. |
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The inspiring true stories of two masters, as popularly old by Renée Ellison in schools. Includes musical excerpts. A Christian perspective on the great German composer and the Dutch painting genius. Riveting! Free if you order at least 5 of #50, below. |
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Bach: Man of God booklet
(a story
of his life and work)
$3.50 Renee Ellison tells the story of the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from a Christian point of view, as presented to school audiences. Many consider Bach the most godly composer of all time. This one is great for teaching inspiring character qualities, as they are pointed out in Bach's outstanding life through the telling of his fascinating true story. For all ages. We will send this to you free with your order of at least 5 of the play scripts by the same title -- just as for it. (If you order this, we highly recommend that you also order the Bach audio CD, our Item #89, above.) |
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Bach:
Man of God play script
$5.00 Stage play script for family, homeschool group, church or school productions (or use it for reader’s theater, without all the sets and costumes). History, comedy and drama are all packed into this heartwarming true story of the life of the famous composer and musician, Johann Sebastian Bach. Includes little-known facts, presented from a Christian point of view. Powdered wigs, fancy dresses and exquisite music all make for an unforgettable evening. Read the program notes, including a synopsis of the play, description of the scenes, list of the members of the cast and the number of lines for each person, and biographical information and famous quotes about J. S. Bach. Order just one for a great read-aloud, or 11 for a full cast. At last, a play both you and your audience can sink your teeth into and get spiritual meat. If you order at least 5 of this script, you may request the audio CD of the story of his life (#89, above) for free! |
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Get to the Point Tips on How to Write a Play with Power
and Punch
High-schoolers, break out of the mold! Try your hand at writing a play. Famous plays are written very differently from short stories…they have their own set of rules. Write YOUR play with these simple rules and feel the dramatic difference. Guaranteed to add immediate pizzazz to your writing and hold over your audience! |
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A book is a prolonged discussion with a person who is an articulate expert in a certain area, someone who has spent time researching, developing, and refining the thoughts on that area.
A book is valuable not only for its intrinsic worth but also for what it stimulates in the reader's thinking. In that sense, it is catalytic.
So, we view buying a book as a wise choice to spend $7 to $20 on the privilege of conversing with an expert, as opposed to throwing that same amount of money at a fast food restaurant.
While reading, my mind is not limited by the scope of the relationships presently available to me. With my head in a book, I am able to partake of a broad and deep discourse that spans place and time. Feeding my mind in this way enriches me and also equips me for the art of elevating conversation in the ordinary stream of life with others.
I am what I read. Each ongoing decision about the type of book to read (or not) and to be reading rather than doing something else determines how I am shaped as an individual and sets the course of my life.
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