• A Homeschool Writing Curriculum that Takes the Fear Out of Writing | Renée at Great Peace #ihsnet #homeschool #writing @ApologiaWorld
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    A Homeschool Writing Curriculum that Takes the Fear Out of Writing

    For years now I’ve been telling you that writing is a struggle in our homeschool. Each year I set off to find the perfect homeschool writing solution to help my son get over the fear of writing. But today, I’m not going to tell you about the struggle. Why? Because we’ve finally solved the problem and taken the fear out of homeschool writing. Yes! You read that right. We’ve finally found the best solution to help my son go from a reluctant, hesitant, and sometimes angry writer, to a willing participant in the writing process.  I received this product for free and am being fairly compensated for my time in…

  • A Writing Curriculum that Teaches with Real World Application | Renée at Great Peace #ihsnet @ApologiaWorld
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    Homeschool Writing Curriculum with Real World Application

    I’ve struggled for years to get my son to write. I mean, he knows how to write, but he doesn’t like writing, the writing process or even coming up with ideas for writing. It really doesn’t matter if it’s a topic he enjoys or not. The idea of putting his thoughts into written form has always been difficult. This has been the struggle regardless of the variety of writing curriculum I’ve chosen in the past. Over the years I’ve tried many things to introduce writing outside the curriculum box. This post contains affiliate ad links to 3rd party sites where products purchased may result in paid compensation for this blogger.…

  • Free literary guides, guided book and poetry reports for elementary students, free printables at Great Peace Academy
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    Homeschool Literary Guides Download

    Free Downloads for Back to Homeschool As school starts and homeschool teachers begin to put together lesson plans we can often find that the available worksheets for reading guides just simply don’t offer much to inspire true learning in our children. My own son struggles with writing so he needs to be guided in his literary endeavors. That’s why I created these literary guides,  a guided book and poetry report.  With these guided reports the students are prompted to recognize key elements in stories, books or poems. Whether it’s identifying the main character  or characters, or it’s finding the problem in the story and understanding the resolution of the problem, with…