Welcome to this issue of The Way Home
IN THIS ISSUE:
What If Johnny Can't Write? It Might Be Time for Writing
Chronicle Books
One Myth & Two Truths
One of the greatest things about homeschooling is not punctuating our lives with Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall. We can choose to do “school” all summer . . . or, if we like, we can take off summer just like all the those who go to school. I think what most of us homeschoolers end up doing is blending learning into regular life . . . I remember that it took me probably 15 years of homeschooling before I actually did not think of summer as an end to the school year. I hope you enjoy your summer with the freedom you can as a homeschooler. Read all summer and do math if you like, and if not, garden, swim and have fun! Thank you for reading The Way Home. Warmly, Mary.
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What If Johnny Can't Write? It Might Be Time for Writing
Writing skills can make or break a student later in life. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, four out of five students are not proficient writers after graduation and only about half meet “basic” grade level requirements. Without improvement, a writing deficiency will haunt these students the rest of their lives - especially when writing a college entrance essay or taking a high stakes test such as the SAT, GRE, GMAT or LSAT. Writing skills are also important in today's job market.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Little Books
Cute & Imaginative Story Twists for Your Little Ones!
www.chroniclebooks.com/littlebooks
Three Beautiful Little Books:
Little Pea, 2005; Little Hoot, 2008 and Little Oink, 2009
All written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Jen Corace.
These three titles, published by Chronicle Books, will make a welcome addition to your little person’s library. Each one puts a fresh and humorous twist on age-old dilemmas parents encounter while raising children – getting them to eat healthful foods, getting them to bed, and encouraging them to pick up after themselves.
One Myth & Two Truths
by Andrew Pudewa
"Good readers will become good writers!" Is a mantra frequently heard in the lecture halls of academia, echoing along the corridors of Junior High Schools, and boldly preached from the homeschool conference lectern, most often out of the mouths of the more wizened and experienced parents and educators, this statement strives to be a truism. But it cannot be such, because it isn't true; at least not always. Certainly, it does happen that good readers can become good writers, but to extrapolate from that fact that good readers will automatically, naturally and inevitably become good writers is to warp a truth into an untruth, which when preached long and hard, becomes-if you will-a myth, an unfounded belief.
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