Why Meaningful Stories Teach Students to Think Clearly

If you’ve been homeschooling for any length of time, you’ve probably had moments when you wondered how all the pieces fit together. Your student studies grammar, reads literature, works through math lessons, learns history, and explores a variety of other subjects…

A Story Reveals So Much More Than a Grade

Sometimes a parent reads a child’s story and suddenly realizes she is seeing something far deeper than a school assignment. She is seeing how her child thinks. What captures his imagination. What details matter to him. How he connects ideas. How clearly he…

Children Work Harder When the Story Belongs to Them

One thing many parents notice pretty quickly is that their children often work much harder on things that feel meaningful to them. A child who struggles to stay focused on an assignment may suddenly spend an hour building an imaginary world, explaining a complicated…

Writing Fiction: Releasing Creativity and Imagination

Every child carries stories inside them. Not assignments.Not exercises.Stories. They show up in daydreams, in half-finished conversations, in imaginary worlds that feel more real than the room they’re sitting in. Fiction writing is not about adding creativity to a…

Students learn grammar far more effectively when they write and revise their own stories

One of the most challenging aspects of teaching English Language Arts (ELA) concerns proper grammar usage. The difficulty is compounded by testing, where students are provided uninteresting passages to identify incorrect usage and answer the correct usage. While…

How are you developing your child’s highest order thinking?

There are so many great reasons that you’ve chosen to homeschool your children. You’ve made sacrifices to assure they learn fully what they’re capable of and achieve their highest potential, both academically and personally. But in all the standard courses and…

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