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Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Grade Six
 
 
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Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Grade Six [Paperback]

Diane Lopez (Author), Susan Schaeffer Macaulay (Introduction, Contributor), Elizabeth Laraway Wilson (Contributor)
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October 1988

What does my child need to learn and when does he need to learn it?

Teaching Children, a unique curriculum guide for grad levels K through six, provides answers. An excellent educational approach which naturally integrates a Christian worldview and Scriptural principles, Teaching Children draws on noted English educator Charlotte Mason and the Child-Light approach to learning. Child-Light puts children in touch with fine literature and teaches them through the use of "living books." It applies a literary, written, and verbal approach to learning, presenting a logical sequence of skills, concepts, and content.

The result--an important resource for those who want to get away from preplanned curriculums. Teaching Children is for both classroom and home teachers, for public and Christian schools, for everyone who desires to enrich a child's learning experience!

An introduction written by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, author of For the Children's Sake, explains how and why the Child-Light educational approach came about, and how this third Child-Light book fits into the Child-Light program.


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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Crossway Books (October 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0891074899
  • ISBN-13: 978-0891074892
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,146,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A somewhat useful book with a misleading title, August 12, 1999
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This review is from: Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Grade Six (Paperback)
Out of the three Child-Light education books, this is the only one I own, but I'd recommend For the Children's Sake and Books Children Love over this one. Of the three, this is the least readable (it's mostly scope and sequence) and the least homeschool friendly (classroom teachers might find it more useful). It lists poems and books to read (mostly in the literature and history/geography sections--there is no booklist for science at all), but other books have more comprehensive lists (such as Laura M. Berquist's Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum). It does not draw at all on the resources currently available to and popular with Christian homeschoolers, even those that were available 10 years ago when the book was published. A very short chapter on using the curriculum in home schools ends up being only a plug for Calvert correspondence school. On the positive side, the breakdown of the steps in teaching reading and the related lists such as meanings of suffixes and prefixes are useful, especially for those teaching without a packaged curriculum. Some of the "alternate" social studies ideas (in an appendix) are more interesting and logical than the main sequence; for instance, third graders spend a year studying "The World Around Me", which involves local history, geography and nature study, branching out into local problems and areas in which children can serve others. The subject overviews, if you have not read For The Children's Sake or Karen Andreola's A Charlotte Mason Companion, which cover the same ideas in more depth, would be a good introduction to the educational principles of Charlotte Mason. For my money, though, I have gotten more practical use out of Ruth Beechick's You CAN Teach Your Child Successfully, which really does explain HOW to teach, and Laura Berquist's book, which pulls in currently available materials to create a curriculum probably more realistic and specifically for homeschoolers. (She doesn't include those phonics breakdowns, though.) If you can borrow this book, it's worth taking a look at; but if you have to spend money for it, there are others I'd go for first.
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other sight words, globe skills, studied skills, written narration, mathematics vocabulary, narrate one, oral narration, chart stories, phonetic rules, previous skills, social studies curriculum
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Child Light, United States, Charlotte Mason, Books Children Love, Robert Louis Stevenson, Old Testament, Eugene Field, God's Word, Eleanor Farjeon, Language Arts Overview, Coronado Publishers, Stephen Vincent, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, Ogden Nash, Word of God, East Lake Avenue Glenview, Edith Schaeffer, Holy Spirit, Jerram Barrs, Rachel Field, South America, Central America, James Street, Martin Luther King, Ranald Macaulay
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