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100 Traditional School Skills You Can Teach Your Child at Home. Want to take your children education to the next level, looking to help them at home with skills, which will come handy throughout their life? Education priorities move about every decade or so. You may notice that homework is out one year, in another; learning phonics is big for some teachers, others like to stress sight words; a district might advertise its enriching foreign language, art, or music programs one year and drop them to concentrate on the basics the next. The new Common Core recommendations introduce innovations in evaluation nationally, such as rewarding the ability to process rather than focusing primarily on coming to an accurate conclusion.

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How To Teach Children Life Skills - Grandparents.com More
Published: 9 years ago by Marc Puig | permalink
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Share a useful tip, art, game, or skill you already know to teach children how to use responsibility to be better people in the world - the kids will remember these things forever.
For further reading: http://www.grandparents.com/grandkids/activities-games-and-crafts/100-things-to-teach-grandchildren ^[1]

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Grade-by-Grade Learning: Kindergarten More
Published: 9 years ago by Kinetik | permalink
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What They Learn | How Kids Learn What Kids Learn in Kindergarten The Basics Most kindergarteners want to learn all about the world and how it works. Kindergarten teachers often build on this enthus...

For further reading: http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/going-to-school/grade-by-grade/kindergarten/ ^[2]

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Why Academic Teaching Doesn’t Help Kids Excel In Life More
Published: 9 years ago by Maria Cochran | permalink
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Teacher Shelley Wright explains why a school system that revolves around academics fails to teach kids what they really need to know. Students have many talents; they just don’t fit into set current curriculae because their talents are likely not considered "real knowledge."
Tags: project based learning,shelley wright

For further reading: http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/14/why-academic-teaching-doesnt-help-kids-excel-in-life/ ^[3]

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50 Reasons Homeschooled Kids Love Being Homeschooled - Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers More
Published: 9 years ago by Kimberley Gridley | permalink
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People often wonder why homeschooled kids like being homeschooled. I asked, and here's what they had to say!

For further reading: http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/why-homeschooled-kids-like-being-homeschooled/ ^[4]

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How to start teaching kids English at home More
Published: 9 years ago by Marcie Roth | permalink
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For further reading: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/parents/articles/how-start-teaching-kids-english-home ^[5]

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Please and thank you is most important lesson we can teach children More
Published: 9 years ago by Ilhaanop | permalink
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A new poll of things every parent should teach their children reveals that respecting your elders was voted second (75 percent) while having good table manners came third (73 percent).
Tags: Say,thank,learn,cartwheel,never,talk,strangers,Life,lessons,parent,teach,children,revealed

For further reading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3196422/Say-thank-learn-cartwheel-never-talk-strangers-Life-lessons-parent-teach-children-revealed.html ^[6]

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons More
Published: 9 years ago by Jan - Peter van Amerongen | permalink
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons has 1,370 ratings and 237 reviews. Danielle said: I have been using this book with my 5 year old twin girls,...

For further reading: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6619.Teach_Your_Child_to_Read_in_100_Easy_Lessons ^[7]

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Memorization is the key all the way to all A's More
Published: 9 years ago by Kent Marcoux | permalink
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Memorization

Educator programs have long stressed the importance of Bloom's taxonomy, where students move from lower to higher levels of learning through the stages of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Schools often promote themselves as valuable in helping students at the higher levels, and may short change the necessary level of knowledge in their eagerness to be seen as teaching synthesis or evaluation. A solid factual understanding of the world is necessary for kids to be able to move on to comprehension or application. Memorization can be a part of acquiring this base. Start with quotes (nursery rhymes, famous sayings or quotations, poem fragments), lists (U.S. presidents, countries or states and capitals, parts of speech), or visuals like maps or charts.