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December 7, 2011 by: Betsy

Explode the Code Review

Explode the Code is a phonics based program I consider invaluable in helping my daughter learn to read. The series starts with three pre-literacy primers then progresses to a series of 8 books for children grades 1-4. A Curriculum Choice Review

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November 30, 2011 by: Cindy

Primary Arts of Language: Writing

This review is Part 2.  If you haven’t already read my review of Primary Arts of Language: Reading, please do so before continuing with this post. Primary Arts of Language: Writing by Jill Pike of Excellence in Writing is the companion program to Primary Arts of Language: Reading.  While the reading program focuses on early phonics and reading skills, the writing program focuses on printing,

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September 14, 2011 by: Cindy

Primary Arts of Language: Reading

Wow.  What a curriculum!  Primary Arts of Language: Reading by Jill Pike of Excellence in Writing has put together a fantastic set of materials for teaching reading to your little one. Using the “blended sound-sight” method of phonics skills and sight words-based education with a playful, game-like approach, children are intended to have fun and progress rapidly at the same time. There are four stages

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August 17, 2011 by: Sam

The Ordinary Parent’s Guide To Teaching Reading

This school year I am teaching my 5 year old, Evan, to read. In my short two years as a homeschooler, I had somehow collected about 8 books to teach reading, as well as a huge boxed reading curriculum. We went through the most widely recommended curriculum with Emma, now 7, and she hated them all. Since we had such a difficult time with Emma,

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July 15, 2011 by: Ashley

Train up a Child Publishing

Train up a Child Publishing is literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together in one educational plan. A review from The Curriculum Choice.

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May 12, 2011 by: Alicia

Hooked on Phonics

I’ve never wanted to be that homeschool mom that pushed and pushed her kids so hard that they felt like all she wanted was perfection from them.  I decided at the beginning of this school year that I would do some “school” with my 5-year-old, but nothing too intense. I decided our goal for the year would be to learn all our consonant sounds and

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April 21, 2011 by: Brenda

Beginning Readers from All About Reading

My beginning readers are children who have been raised on a wide variety of literature, from Dora the Explorer books (which do not really count as literature) to classics like Heidi and everything in between.  As they have begun learning to read one thing I have tried to find are beautiful books on their level.  I’m sorry, I’ve seen those beginning readers where the whole

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February 2, 2011 by: Tricia

Slow and Steady Get Me Ready

Today, after three-year-old finished her page from Color, Count and Cut, we pulled from our Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready book. The activity below is called Finish It. I read the beginning of each sentence and almost four-year-old finished it. I went to the ice cream shop. I am going on a vacation to see horses. Yesterday I played in the snow. Mother and

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