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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. Feedback and comments welcome. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content which will also be reproduced in a reasonably priced handy reference booklet from our Practical Homeschooling Series. |
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Reading Skills
- Is the child familiar with the handling of books?
- Does the child understand that print conveys a message?
- What does the child know about the purposes of reading?
- Does the child know that speech can be converted into print?
- Does the child know that print can be converted into speech?
- Does the child have any concept of producing a printed message; write own name?
- Are there any concepts of print such as knowledge of letters, words and directionality evident in the child's attempts to write?
- Does the child understand the concept of “word”?
- Does the child understand the concept of “letter”?
- Does the child understand that letter order within a word has significance?
- Does the child understand that words in a sentence have an order?
- Does the child understand the system of direction; i.e. left to right, down the page, line under line?
- Does the child realise spaces separate words in a sentence?
- Does the child use prediction to determine what comes next?
- If the child is making sense of a text, what cues are being used?
- Can the child construct a message from print which matches that of the author?
- Does the child adjust reading style and create according to purpose of reading task?
- Can the child locate books to satisfy needs?
- Can the child use reading to obtain information?
- Can the child relate what is read to his/her own knowledge about the world?
- Does the child enjoy reading?
- How often is the child reading?
- How often does the child vary the types of materials he/she is reading?
- Can the child read silently?
- Does the child ask for help if he/she is having difficulty in any aspect of reading?
- Can the child scan to obtain information from texts?
- How long does the child spend reading at one time?
- Does the child follow the story when read out loud or just follow words?
- Has the child been exposed to reading aloud experiences that are enjoyable?
- Does the child see other people reading /reading aloud?
- Is the child confident reading aloud?
- Does the child talk about what he/she has read?
- Can they use table of contents and indexes?
This checklist is taken from Chapter 9 Checklists in Getting Started with Hoemschooling Practical Considerations by Beverley Paine, available from Always Learning Books.
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