Education : Home Schooling

Good listening skills are vital to learning and to everyday life. Educational research shows a direct link between the ability to listen effectively, and measurable intelligence. If we improve listening skill, we improve IQ. Yet though we often complain about students’ listening skills, do we apply focused teaching to improve them? The Learning To Listen series increases student ability to sustain retentive listening over time. Each book consists of 20 appealing, high-interest stories to be read to students. After listening to each story, students complete a related listening comprehension activity. These require students to retain specific information from the story to answer given questions. Details requiring recall relate to such details as colour, order of events, sounds, sights and characters discussed in the story. Activities can be completed as a class, in groups or individually. Initially, as written or aural clues, students are given particular information to listen for before the story is read. As their listening ability develops, memory cues are reduced. Creative expression extension activities accompany each story. Don’t just talk about how students should learn to listen. Do something about it. more...

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Good listening skills are vital to learning and to everyday life. Educational research shows a direct link between the ability to listen effectively, and measurable intelligence. If we improve listening skill, we improve IQ. Yet though we often complain about students’ listening skills, do we apply focused teaching to improve them? The Learning To Listen series increases student ability to sustain retentive listening over time. Each book consists of 20 appealing, high-interest stories to be read to students. After listening to each story, students complete a related listening comprehension activity. These require students to retain specific information from the story to answer given questions. Details requiring recall relate to such details as colour, order of events, sounds, sights and characters discussed in the story. Activities can be completed as a class, in groups or individually. Initially, as written or aural clues, students are given particular information to listen for before the story is read. As their listening ability develops, memory cues are reduced. Creative expression extension activities accompany each story. Don’t just talk about how students should learn to listen. Do something about it. more...

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Distilling a lifetime of passion for homeschooling and self-directed learning, this collection gathers the very best of the author's essays and articles from a variety of sources. Addressing all ages and a wide variety of subjects, it offers the most comprehensive overview available of the many options for schooling outside traditional channels. Laced with insight and humor, the topics include educational resources, special needs, chronic illness, discipline, and transitioning to adolescence and beyond. Both novice and experienced homeschoolers will be challenged and inspired by this expert guide to the complex challenge of learning outside traditional schools. more...

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Actively listening for information is an essential skill for all students and is one that needs to be developed and practiced - it doesn't just happen. The exercises in this three book series require the listener to actively listen for information in each story and show that they have understood and processed this information by adding information onto the picture that accompanies each story. Students may need to add color to the picture or stripes to a sweater or they may need to add into the picture an item that is referred to in the story but not included in the picture. Some of the information is referred to in the story directly eg Sally had brown hair, other information is woven into the text and requires students to really listening carefully to identify and process it. For each picture (24 per book)  there are two stories or set of instructions at two levels of difficulty so each picture can be used twice. The exercises in each book increase in difficulty through the book and through the series. These exercises can also be used for reading comprehension - instead of the story being read to the students the students can read the story themselves and complete the picture. These exercises will make your students skillful at listening and 'hearing' information actively. Get started today. more...

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Blackline master math activity book jam packed with adventures of monsters, mad types and misfits in a mad and magical mathematical land. Will provide a high level of interest for students as they work through the problems in this book. The problem solving activities will prove thoroughly stimulating to the children in your class. more...

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