Now I am going to tell you what different publishers and
curriculums fall into each category. Why do you need to know this??? I feel that if you
know what curriculums fall into which EDUCATIONAL STYLES you can figure out what other
materials, magazines, books, resource guides will fit into your family. You can find out
your families educational style and support it with supplementary materials I believe that it is at times beneficial to read alot of different methods and
incorporate them into your teaching style...but at the same time...it can be downright
confusing and down right EXPENSIVE to not know what works for you and to keep looking and
looking and looking for a better method.
The Textbook Method or Essentialism
Textbooks:
A Beka textbooks and materials Pk through 12
A Beka Video school and correspondence school
Bob Jones textbooks and materials Pk through 12
Bob Jones Satellite school.
Magazines:
The Teaching Home Magazine
Books:
The Christian Home School by Greg Harris
The Home School Manual by Theodore Wade
Mixture of Essentialism and Perennialism
Curriculum and Reference Guides:
The Hillsdale Academy Reference Guide
Books:
All books by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Core Knowledge Series
What Your First Grader Needs to Know
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
All the way up to
What your Sixth Grader Needs to Know
A Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Children
Need toKnow When
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
The Living Book Method or Perrenialism
Books:
Great Books of the Western World (Volumes One through
Fifty-four) Edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins
Books on Education:
The Original Home Schooling Series, Six Volumes by
Charlotte Mason
For the Children’s Sake, Foundation of Education
for Home and School by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
The Charlotte Mason Companion Guide by Karen Andreola
Books by Penny Gardener
Guides to Books for Children:
Teaching Children: A Curriculum guide to What Children
Need to Know At Each Level Through Sixth Grade by Diane
Lopez
Honey for a Childs’s Heart by Gladys Hunt
Read for Your Life by Gladys Hunt
Let the Authors Speak, A Guide to Worthy Books Based on
Historical Setting by Carolyn Hatcher
Magazines:
The Parent’s Review (based on reprints from the
original magazine) edited by Charlotte Mason.
Catalogs that feature "twaddle free" history books and
"living books":
The Always Incomplete Catalogue, Lifetime Books and
Gifts by Bob and Tina Farwell
Greenleaf Press Catalogue by Rob and Cyndy
Schearer
Mixture of Perenialism and Progressivism
Books:
How to Create Your Own Unit Study by Valerie Bendt
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully by Ruth Beechick
Magazines:
Homeschooling Today, Practical Help for Christian Families
The Unit Study Method or Progressivism
Books:
All the following titles by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
School Can Wait
Better Late Than Early
Home Grown Kids
Home-Spun Schools
Homestyle Teaching
Homebuilt Discipline
Homeschool Burnout
The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook...A creative
stress free approach to homeschooling
Curriculum:
KONOS Unit Study Curriculum and Products by Jessica
Huley and Carole Thaxton
The Weaver Curriculum produced by Becky Avery
Magazines:
Parent Educator and Family Report
Unschooling Method or Existensialism
Books:
How Children Learn by John Holt
How Children Fail by John Holt
You Own by John Holt
Homeschooling for Excellence by Micki and David Colfax
Magazines:
Growing Without Schooling
Home Education Magazine
The Eclectic Method:
Resource books:
Christian Home Educator’s Curriculum Manual by
Cathy Duffy
