Understanding and Getting Started in Homeschooling
- The Homeschooling Handbook. Mary Griffith. A thorough overview of homeschooling, with thought-provoking comments from many experienced homeschoolers.
- The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start. Linda Dobson. The synthesis of countless years of educational inquiry and experiment, from many contributing homeschoolers.
- Learning At Home, A Mother's Guide to Homeschooling. Marty Layne. A thorough overview based on the wisdom gained in the years of homeschooling four children.
- Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling. John Holt and Patrick Farenga. Holt, who was an educational and social critic, and a pioneering homeschooling advocate. His captivating books and gentle empathy with children introduced deeply insightful observations about how learning works. Other popular books of Holt's are How Children Learn, How Children Fail, and Learning All the TIme.
- See, I Told Me So!: Homeschool Veterans Declare "You Can Stop Worrying," An Ebook. Eighteen homeschool veterans from all walks of life share their experiences - their challenges, fears, trials and triumphs. Each contributor offers the same assurance. "We could have stopped worrying years ago, and you can stop worrying today."
- The Homeschooling Book of Answers. Linda Dobson. More than thirty seasoned homeschooling writers respond to 88 important and frequently asked questions about homeschooling.
- Fundamentals of Homeschooling: Notes on Successful Family Living. Ann Lahrson-Fisher. A comprehensive 400+ page resource book that emphasizes the importance of family life and "living a satisfying learning lifestyle."
- Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School. Grace Llewellyn, Amy Silver. The title says it all - the book examines how people learn and illuminates its practical advice with insightful stories.
- Getting Started on Home Learning. Rebecca Rupp. A small companion book to The Complete Home Learning Source Book, this includes an inspiring discussion of her own experience of homeschooling three sons.
- Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School. Rebecca Rupp. A detailed guide to standard subjects generally covered by schools, with suggestions for good books and resources that can be used.
- Homeschooling for Success: How Parents Can Create a Superior Education for their Child. Rebecca Kochenderfer and Elizabeth Kanna. A comprehensive introduction and overview of homeschooling concerns and resources.
- Homeschooling, the Early Years. Linda Dobson. Although these years, 3-8, are early for formal study, the book offers encouragement and inspiration about the ways in which young children continually learn naturally.
- Homeschooling the Middle Years. Shari Henry. Lots of helpful ideas and inspiration about homeschooling the 8-12 year old, from many families.
- The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas. Linda Dobson. A categorized collection of over 500 tried-and-true educational activities for all subjects, submitted by many homeschooling families.
- The Homeschool Reader. Mark and Helen Hegener. Articles from past issues of Home Education Magazine, by 30 respected writers, covering the whole spectrum of homeschooling topics.
- Homeschooling for Excellence. David and Micki Colfax. An older book that still inspires, it was written in response to frequent questions after their first son got into Harvard on a scholarship, this book empowers parents to take charge of their children's education.
- Hard Times in Paradise. David and Micki Colfax. The story of how the Colfaxes (also see Homeschooling for Excellence above) learned together while struggling to build their homestead - an interesting perspective on real education.
- Educating the WholeHearted Online. Clay and Sally Clarkson. A Christian inspired and comprehensive approach that integrates all areas of study for children aged 4-14, making the entire home a place of learning.
- Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers. Edited by Grace Llewellyn. Inspiring observations from the experiences of 20 families who span the globe.
- Morning by Morning : How We Home-Schooled Our African American Sons to the Ivy League. Paula Penn-Nabrit. Focuses on a family's decision to homeschool in order to address the children's holistic development as spiritual, intellectual, and physical beings.
- The Home School Source Book, 3rd Edition. Jean and Donn Reed. Reviews a huge assortment of resources, with thought-provoking commentaries about homeschooling by the authors, who homeschooled four children. It's also a catalog.
- The Complete Home Learning Source Book. Rebecca Rupp. An enormous, well-organized resource with reviews and essays on learning resources of every kind, for all subjects. Its companion book, Getting Started on Home Learning, also by Rebecca Rupp, includes an inspiring discussion of her own experience of homeschooling three sons.
Natural Learning and Unschooling
- The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom. Mary Griffith. Provides tips and advice from many experienced homeschoolers.
- Books by John Holt: How Children Learn, How Children Fail, and Learning All the TIme. Holt, who was an educational and social critic, and a pioneering homeschooling advocate. His captivating books and gentle empathy with children introduced deeply insightful observations about how learning works.
- Viral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life. Mary Griffith, the author of The Homeschooling Handbook, and the Unschooling Handbook, reflects on how she, along with a few of her friends came to homeschooling, how it affected them and their view of the world, and how those changes may spark changes around them.
- The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School. Valerie Fitzenreiter. "The Unprocessed Child is not so much a book about how to raise our children without school, but a book about respect, dignity and honor of the very nature of childhood." -Tracy Million Simmons
- Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves. Alison McKee. A gifted teacher with wide experience in traditional education describes her family's journey into homeschooling and the challenging, but rewarding, process of learning to trust her own children to show her the way.
- Christian Unschooling . Teri J. Brown, Elissa M. Wahl. Comprehensive information, and ideas to inspire the (Christian) homeschooler in the subjects of language arts, history, math, science and more.
- And The Skylark Sings With Me. David Albert. Offers an inspiring and uniquely thought-provoking perspective on learning.
- Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking. David Albert. Unique essays on how to incorporate the aesthetics of family learning into the realm of daily living, including practical ideas.
- Have Fun- Learn Stuff- Grow: Homeschooling And the Curriculum of Love. David Albert. Inspiring essays that are a mixture of philosophical musing, questioning of old assumptions about learning, and level-headed consideration of educational issues.
- I Learn Better by Teaching Myself, and Still Teaching Ourselves. Agnes Leistico. How a homeschooling mother learned to trust her children - and herself - to learn in new ways - from elementary years through high school. These two combined books are especially good for anyone wrestling with the question of "how much structure should there be in a homeschool?"
- Living Joyfully With Children. Win Sweet and Bill Sweet. Having homeschooled long before the word "homeschooling" came along, the Sweets share their inspiring discoveries and practical advice about creating joy-filled family life.
- Moving a Puddle and other essays. Sandra Dodd. Thought provoking and inspiring essays about how learning, parenting, and everyday life can be in the absence of school, viewed from different vantage points over a dozen years.
Why Homeschool? These books can be particularly helpful for dealing with challenging questions from family and friends. - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education. John Taylor Gatto. The former NY State Teacher of the Year discusses the nature of education, and urges parents to re-engage their families in their culture, economy and society.
- Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. David Guterson. A former high school English teacher, and now a best-selling novelist, Guterson explains why he chose to homeschool his own kids, even while still teaching.
- The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling. John Taylor Gatto. A fascinating and opinionated history of how practices and principles of schooling have come to be.
- The Homeschooling Book of Answers. Linda Dobson. More than thirty seasoned homeschooling writers respond to 88 important and frequently asked questions about homeschooling.
- Teach Your Own, How Children Learn, How Children Fail, Learning All the Time, and others, by John Holt. Holt was an educational and social critic, and a pioneering homeschooling advocate. His captivating books and gentle empathy with children introduced deeply insightful observations about how learning works.
- Deschooling Society: Social Questions. Ivan Illich. Not a book about homeschooling, but a hard and thought provoking criticism of the educational systems and the myths and damage perpetuated by them.
About Learning and How It Works, Learning Styles, and Special Challenges - Homeschooling with Special Challenges - HSC's web pages of information, books, and other esources for meeting special needs.
- The Book of Learning and Forgetting. Frank Smith. Eloquently contrasts the "official theory" that learning is work with a view that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities.
- How Children Learn, How Children Fail, Learning All the Time, and others, by John Holt. Holt was an educational and social critic, and a pioneering homeschooling advocate. His captivating books and gentle empathy with children introduced deeply insightful observations about how learning works.
- How Your Child IS Smart: A Life-Changing Approach to Learning. Dawna Markova, a learning and comprehension specialist, is a clear and reassuring book on how to recognize individual learning styles and empower the child.
- The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence. Dawna Markova. Fascinating and detailed explanations of six learning patterns, "personality" riddles, how they affect communication, organization, and work, and how to optimize our understanding and relationships between them.
- Better Late Than Early, and School Can Wait (a more scholarly version of the same research). Raymond and Dorothy Moore, discussion of the large body of research proving the dangers of early formal schooling (includes their own Christian-based perspectives as well).
- Homeschooling the Child with ADD or Other Special Needs: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Differences. Lenore Colacíon Hayes. Insights on the challenges and joys of homeschooling special-needs children with challenges ranging from autism or ADD to other learning disabilities or who simply march to the beat of a different drummer.
- Hold On to Your Kids : Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Md Mate. New ideas and perspectives integrating information from various sciences to provide practical suggestions for meeting the challenges of parenting today.
Information about Learning Resources of All Kinds
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