Creating a Passive-Learning Environment
Education is more than what happens in a classroom. One of the advantages of home educating is that, by creating a passive learning environment, you can supercharge your child’s opportunities...
Encourage a Love of Reading
Home education is so much easier if homeschoolers are enthusiastic, confident readers. Reading aloud with kids has numerous benefits and it is a gentle, beneficial way to slow the pace...
Resources: Ratatype
Ratatype is a brilliant resource for anyone learning to type. Using easy to follow lessons, clear diagram instructions and games and incentives to improve type speed and accuracy, learners can...
How Typing Can Make Writing Easier
Letter formation is key to learning to write but for some children, using a pen to write on paper isn’t a skill that comes naturally. Learning to type can help...
Translations as a Language Learning Tool
Translating a piece of writing gets students thinking about not just vocabulary and grammar, but the usage of the language itself which makes translating activities a useful home-ed language learning...
Resources: The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is a great place to start when looking for ideas, inspiration and resources for a home-ed poetry module.
Independent Learning: Editing with Grammarly
Grammarly is an application that is essentially a better version of spellcheck. It was designed to make it easier for people to communicate effectively and, according to its stats, has...
Skillshare for Homeschool
Skillshare offers tutor-created courses in animation, creative writing, video, graphic design and illustration, music and photography as well as UX/UI design and Web Development making it a fantastic resource for...
Homeschool Maths Resources: IXL
IXL is a brilliant choice for an online maths home-ed curriculum because of its assessment and analytical functionality and ready-to-use study plans.