Home Education Books and Resources
Homeschool Legal Information, General Homeschooling Books, Choosing Homeschool Curriculum, Unschooling and Relaxed Homeschooling, Teen and Highschool Homeschooling, Homeschool to College Books, Adult, Career, Special Needs, Learning Challenges/Disabilities, Gifted Homeschooling Resources
We all need help now and then, but homeschool veterans are busy people. Before you begin to ask questions, we suggest that you read at least one book on homeschooling, so that you know what questions to ask! Here are some resources to get you started. Some can be purchased from vendors on our Links page. You may also be able to find them through the Inter-Library Loan system. Ask your local librarian for assistance. If you need curriculum, you will find additional information at our Curriculum Resources page.
As you explore these books on homeschooling, note that each is written from a different perspective. Learn to recognize home school philosophies, and various methods. You know your children best, so you are the best person to decide what is right for your family. Individual children are as different as snowflakes, each with his or her own talents, interests, and learning styles. Homeschooling offers a unique and welcome opportunity to celebrate and explore that diversity that makes each of us unique. Most of the following homeschool and educational resources can be found, at discounted prices, at Christianbook.com. Eagle's Nest Homeschool is a Christianbook.com affiliate, and purchases help support the free resources at this web site.
Legal Information on Homeschooling
- Home Schooling in the
- The Right to
- The Bible, Homeschooling, and the Law Karl Reed, Christian Home Ministries, 1991 Home Schooling and the Law Michael P. Farris, Paeonian Springs, VA: Home School Legal Defense Association, 1990.
- Home Education: Rights and Reasons John W. Whitehead and Alexis
Crow,
- Home Education and Constitutional Liberties, John W. Whitehead and
Wendell R. Bird,
- The Pennsylvania Home Education Handbook: Using Your Education
Style in Complying with the Law, Diana Baseman,
General Homeschool Information
- Educational Travel on a Shoestring : Frugal Family Fun and Learning Away from Home and Homeschooling on a Shoestring, Melissa L. Morgan and Judith Waite Allee, Harold Shaw Publishers, Harold Shaw Publishers, Box 567, Wheaton, IL. 60189; RWhy Homeschool Books:
- Dumbing Us Down : The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto - The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteachers
Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto - Dumbing Down Our Kids : Why American Children Feel Good About
Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add
by Charles J. Sykes - Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of
by Alex Molnar - The Unschooled Mind : How Children Think and
by Howard Gardner - Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling
by Marsha Ransom, John Taylor Gatto - Home Learning Year by Year : How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum
from Preschool Through High School
by Rebecca Rupp - The Complete Home Learning Source Book : The Essential Resource
Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject...
by Rebecca Rupp - The
by Theodore E. Wade (Editor) - The Big Book of Home Learning : Getting Started : Introduces
by Mary Pride - What Your Child Needs to Know When
by Robin Scarlata - Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective,
and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond
by LauraMaery Gold, Joan M. Zielinski - School Free: The Home Schooling Handbook by Wendy Priesnitz,
- Home Schools: An Alternative, Cheryl Gorder,
- Home Schooling: Answers to Questions Parents Most Often Ask by
Deborah McIntire and Robert Windham,
- I Am a Home Schooler by Julie Voetberg,
- The Language Wars and Other Writings for Homeschoolers by Ruth Beechick, Pollock Pines, CA: Arrow Press, 1995
- Still Teaching Ourselves and I Learn Better by Teaching Myself by
Agnes Leistico,
- Rescue Your Child from Public School: The Powerful Case for Home
Schooling by Jacquelyn Landis,
- The Right Choice: The Incredible Failure of Public Education and
the Rising Hope of Home Schooling by Christopher J. Klicka,
- The Homeschool Reader Edited by Mark and Helen Hegener,
- The Whole Hearted Child Home Education Handbook Clay Clarkson and Sally Clarkson, Walnut Springs, TX: Whole Heart Ministries P.O. Box 228, Walnut Springs, TX 76690, 1994
- What about Church?; Guidelines for Fellowship for the Home
Schooling Family and the
- The Homeschooling Father by Michael P. Farris,
- Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Guterson,
- Help I'm Homeschooling by Debbie Castaneda & Pam Geib,
- Why So Many Christians Are Going Home to School Lby lewellyn B.
Davis,
- The Three R's at Home by Howard and Susan Richman, Kittanning, PA:
- An Introduction to Home Education: How to Begin Your School by Karen Woodfin Middleton & Susan Beatty, CHEA of CA, P.O. Box 28644, Santa Ana, CA 92799-8644
- Should I Teach My Kids at Home? A Workbook for Parents by Kate
Kerman,
- The Complete Home Educator: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern
Home-Teaching by Mario Pagnoni,
- Better Than School by Nancy Wallace, 1983
- School at Home: Teach Your Own Child Iby ngeborg U. V.
- Teach Your Own, John Holt (New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1981)
- Learning All the Time by John Holt (1989)
- The Essential Characteristics and Conditions of Successful Home Education by O. C. Erasmus, Durban, Natal, South African Association for the Advancement of Education
- The Children on the Hill: One Family's Bold Experiment with a
- School is not compulsory, Education Otherwise (there is an addendum to bring it up-to-date with the 1996 Education Act).UK home-educators only; e-mail recipient@education-otherwise.org or e_o@netlink.co.uk; Web: http://www.education-otherwise.org or http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/e_o/ ; or send a SASE to Chris Harper, [EO Publications],Badgers Holt, Birchwood, Storridge, Malvern,Worcs.WR13 5HA; (tel - UK - 01886 884740); or EO, PO Box 7420, London, N9 9SG, UK
- For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School by Susan Macaulay
Books to Help You Choose (Or Create) Curriculum
- Home Education Resource Guide, Don Hubbs, Blue Bird Publ., 1713 E. Broadway #306, Tempe, Az. 85282, Tells where to find curriculum, home school information.
- How To Write A Low Cost/No Cost Curriculum For Your Home School Child , Borg Hendrickson, Mountain Meadow Press, P. O. Box 447, Kooskia, Id. 83539.
- Early Education At Home: A Complete Guide For Parents of Preschoolers and Kindergartners, M. Jean Soyke, At Home Publications, 2826 Roselawn Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21214. Also publishes Art Adventures At Home, Volumes 1 and 2.
- How to Teach Your Child: Things to Know From Kindergarten Through Grade 6, Veltisezar B. Bautista, Bookhaus Publishers, Farmington Hills, Ml. 48333, U.S.A., 1992, includes phonics, reading, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Math, Thinking and Study Skills, Bibliography and Recommended Reading
- Elementary Teachers Guide to FREE Curriculum Materials, Educators
Progress Service, Inc.,
- What Your Child Needs to Know When: An Evaluation Check List for
Grades K-8, Robin Scarlata; Heart of Wisdom Publishing,
- You Can Teach Your Child Successfully: Grades 4 to 8 Ruth Beechick, Pollock Pines, CA: Arrow Press
- How to Create Your Own Unit Study Valerie Bendt,
- One Hundred One Homeschool Teaching Tips from Sycamore Tree Sandra L. Gogel, Sycamore Tree, 2179 Meyer Place, Costa Mesa, CA 92627; 1989; Bible, Language Arts, Math, Writing, Social Studies, Science, Art
- Making the Grade: Learning Adventures For Your Family, (Various
Books by Grade Level), Kaplan Educational Centers,
- Family and Home School Resource Directory, and Traditional Values in Action Resource Directory, edited by Robert W. Klous, Th.M.
- How to Grow a Young Music Lover: Helping Your Child Discover & Enjoy the World of Music, Cheri Fuller, Harold Shaw Publishers
- How to Grow a Young Reader: A Parent's Guide to Books For Kids, John & Kathryn Lindskoog, Harold Shaw Publishers
- Research List of Publications: Information on sex, divorce, education, violence, from a Christian perspective, FREE from the Family Research Council, 801 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C, 20001, (202) 393-2100; Internet http://www.frc.org
- You Can Teach Your Child Successfully, Ruth Beechick
- Homeschooling From Scratch, Mary Kenyon, Gazelle Publications, 1996
- How to Tutor, Samuel L. Blumenfeld (2nd edition, 1986)
- The Three R's At Home, Howzrd and Susan Richman, Pennsylvania Homeschoolers, R.D.2--Box 117, Kitanning, PA 16201
Unschooling and Relaxed Homeschooling Books
- The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your
Child's Classroom
by Mary Griffith - Homeschooling for Excellence
by David Colfax, Micki Colfax - Growing Without Schooling : A Record of a Grassroots Movement
by John Holt, Susannah Sheffer - How Children Fail
by John Caldwell Holt - Famous Homeschoolers
by Nancy & Malcolm Plent - Deschooling Our Lives Matt Hern, editor, Gabriola, BC;
- The Relaxed
- Homeschooling for Excellence David & Micki Colfax,
- Home Grown Kids: A Practical Handbook for Teaching Your Children at Home Raymond and Dorothy Moore, Word Publishing
- The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook: A Creative and
Stress-free Approach to Homeschooling Raymond and Dorothy Moore,
Teen, High School, Adult, Career, College Books
- Homeschooling the High Schooler: Combined Volumes I and II Diana
McAlister and Candice Oneschak,
- Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+la Barbara Shelton, 350 pages. Guide to learning from real life instead of public school.
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real
Life and Education, Grace Llewellyn,
- The Socialization Trap, Rick Boyer,
- No Regrets: How Home Schooling Earned Me a Master's Degree at Age 16
- The
- As for me and my house--, Paula J. Penn-Nabrit (
- Bear's Guide to Non-Traditional College Degrees (John Bear, PhD)
Ten-Speed Press, POB 7123,
- The Elements of Stye, William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Macmillan Co, N.Y., This little classic can do more than just teach grammar; it can teach you to write, in only 78 pages. Used by professionals, with advice like "write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs." Contains examples.
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook : How to Quit School and Get a
Real Life and Education*
by Grace Llewellyn - Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook: Preparing Your 12- to 18-Year-Old for a Smooth Transition by Cafi Cohen, Linda Dobson (Editor)
- Homeschooling : The Teen Years : Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- To 18-Year Old by Cafi Cohen
- Real Lives : Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
by Grace Llewellyn - Homeschooler's Guide to Portfolios and Transcripts (Arco)
by Loretta Heuer - From Homeschool to College and Work: Turning Your Homeschooled Experiences into College and Job Portfolios by Alison McKee
- And
- Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go To School, Edited and with an introduction by Grace Llewellyn, Lowry House, Eugene Oregon
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2. Growing Without Schooling
3. NATTHAN (NATional cHallenged
Homeschoolers Associated Network) 5383 Alpine Rd. SE,
4. Clonlara Homebased Education Program
1289 Jewett,
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