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Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School | 
| Author: Rebecca Rupp
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 8860
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0609805851
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.042
EAN: 9780609805855
ASIN: 0609805851
Publication Date: November 14, 2000
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Product Description
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features:
The integral subjects to be covered within each grade
Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level
Recommended books to use as texts for every subject
Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests
Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness
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 Great resource for homeschooing parents September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful. It eased my fears about short changing my homeschooler or overlooking some educational aspect. while offering so much information. I like that it offers guidelines on where your child should be but remember that these are guidelines and you may want to check with your state's requirements.
Also, I agree with the reviewer who said that some of the resources/info may be a bit dated-hence the four stars. (Looking forward to a revised edition.) Don't forget to look for online resources as well. For example: [...] is helpful for kids learning to read.
Another thing that I appreciated was its reference-type, secular feel. I highly recommend this book whether just starting out or well into homeschooling.
 Home Learning Year by Year September 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The author offers some very realistic goals and insights for teaching your child at home. I was very dissapointed that the resource suggestions in the book were nearly impossible to find. I had to go to ebay for every book I was interested in. This would be a better book if the resource suggestions were updated to include books that are still in print.
 I wouldn't be without this book! September 6, 2008
I have used this book every year for the past 5 years to design our homeschooling curriculum. It is fantastic!
It lets you know what your child should be learning every year from pre school through 12th grade; giving many ideas for books, games, magazines, and web sites that you can use to teach every subject.
Oh, how I wish Rebecca Rupp would do an updated version of the book with newer web sites and newly published book suggestions!
Great Source of Info! July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a homeschooler, I felt I need a book to help guide me to make sure I wasn't leaving anything out of my kids education. This book covers a lot for each grade level. It's a great source of guidance and referrences. But, just because the book SAYS your child should know a certain thing by a certain grade, doesn't mean you HAVE to teach that. Overall, I like the book and continue to use it for reference but I don't live by it.
Terrific Resource June 30, 2008
I am new to homeschooling and this seemed to be a good starting point for establishing what I need my child to cover in the school year. It does not tell you exactly what curriculum to choose for your child's learning style but it does guide you over all the areas children should be knowledgeable in. There are several out of print books that are recommended as well as websites that are not available. It also has some very good information in the appendixes. Overall, I would recommend this book as a great tool.
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