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Archives for April 2013
The transformative power of historical fiction
The following is a guest post written by Caroline Starr Rose of Caroline by line and the verse novel May B. What’s the point of historical fiction? Publisher’s Weekly recently ran an interview with Newbery and Newbery-Honor medalist Karen Cushman, one of children’s literature’s most celebrated …
Free educational resources you might not have heard of
Once upon a time I believed that homeschooling, done well, required a significant financial investment. Private schools and the amount spent by the government on each public school student certainly suggest that education comes at a high price. After a couple of years, however, I began to notice …
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Becoming brave writers: A review of The Writer’s Jungle
Written by contributor Lora Lynn Fanning of Vitafamiliae Last semester, I determined my third grade twins should do a writing project. I requested a paragraph from each about their history studies. Simple, right? A week later, we were all in tears and only after much angst did they eke out …
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Lessons learned from Little House
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool After several months, my three kids and I recently finished reading all nine books of the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Reading these to my own kids was like a dream come true. I fell in love with Laura and her life as a …