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Cheap Reading Material© Beverley Paine, 2004 If you don't have a lot of time to read aloud to your children, and this tip is pitched largely at the working parent who doesn't get to spend all day with the children, why not take advantage of the newspaper? Most daily papers are written at upper primary level and contain a variety of writing styles and genres, from journalistic reporting to general interest or how-to articles, book and movie reviews, product reviews, gossip, info-advertisements to classified ads. Weekly papers are the best, as they are huge and have the largest range of reading material, including the much sought after comics and television guides! Don't dump the paper on the table. Break the paper into sections and ask who wants to read what section first. Have a cuppa and a snack and sit and read and share things that interest you. You will be modelling behaviour that your children will, over time, naturally emulate. You don't need to push them to tell you stuff, or ask you questions. That will happen over time, if you don't put a heavy emphasis on it or make it a chore. Children suss out 'lessons' and very quickly 'tune out'. This isn't a reading lesson, it's a sharing time. ... read more tips on learning how to read
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.