Comments on: Understanding children http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/ my personal space Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Atypical Homeschool.net » Carnival of Unschooling #3 - for eclectic homeschoolers everywhere http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-442 Atypical Homeschool.net » Carnival of Unschooling #3 - for eclectic homeschoolers everywhere Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:51:34 +0000 http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-442 [...] Atypical Homeschool.netfor eclectic homeschoolers everywhere February 9, 2006 < < Understanding children|| > > [...] [...] Atypical Homeschool.netfor eclectic homeschoolers everywhere February 9, 2006 < < Understanding children|| > > [...]

]]> By: Clare http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-440 Clare Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:35:09 +0000 http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-440 Ha ha! I see the html isn't quite right, but at least the link works! The book's called Read With Me by Liz Waterlane. Cx Ha ha! I see the html isn’t quite right, but at least the link works! The book’s called Read With Me by Liz Waterlane.

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]]> By: Clare http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-439 Clare Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:33:11 +0000 http://atypicalhomeschool.net/resources/educational-theory-and-philosophy/understanding-children/#comment-439 You might find this book interesting: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0903355272/sr=8-2/qid=1139477313/ref=sr_1_2/002-2313501-0544810?%5Fencoding=UTF8" title="Read With Me by Liz Waterlane" rel="nofollow">read with me</a> (apologies if that html doesn't work!). It's all about how reading scheme books can be really damaging to the process of learning to read simply because children find them so boring! She suggests that children should be allowed to read *whatever* they want because that's what they'll learn to read from. Holt says the same about not censoring what children are exposed to in terms of what we consider the correct age range. And when you think about it, we don't ensure they only hear baby-language before they learnt to talk, and they manage to assimilate all that information, so why do it with books/anything else! Hurrah for Home Education which means our children don't have to be subject to this censorshiop that most certainly does go on in most schools. Cx (<i>edited to fix link ;) - Ed.</i>) You might find this book interesting: read with me (apologies if that html doesn’t work!). It’s all about how reading scheme books can be really damaging to the process of learning to read simply because children find them so boring! She suggests that children should be allowed to read *whatever* they want because that’s what they’ll learn to read from. Holt says the same about not censoring what children are exposed to in terms of what we consider the correct age range. And when you think about it, we don’t ensure they only hear baby-language before they learnt to talk, and they manage to assimilate all that information, so why do it with books/anything else! Hurrah for Home Education which means our children don’t have to be subject to this censorshiop that most certainly does go on in most schools.

Cx

(edited to fix link ;) – Ed.)

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