As a homeschooling parent, I constantly find myself re-evaluating how and what I'm teaching my child. I find myself leaning towards classical education (yet I honestly find it daunting). For the rest of this year I'm going to bite the bullet and focus on doing some copywork with Connor. I read a great article, written by Jessie Wise Why Do Copywork and Dictation? which really resonated with me. Some Ideas include using popular novels, and poems for the copywork, as well as incorporating his spelling words. I think this will be extra benficial for handwriting, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
I'm going to try dictation as well. I ran across a great video by Sonia Shafer "Prepared dictation explained" which explains the process really well. I'm inspired! |
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