Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
Index
Homeschool
Australia
Skills And Processes
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Skills: Listening and Speaking
| Speaks clearly and fluently | Can build on the ideas of others |
| Able to retain audience interest | Listens to the ideas of others |
| Formulates and poses questions readily | Is confident when using new words |
| Participates in group listening and speaking activities | Uses voice appropriately to audience in terms of pitch, volume and intonation |
| Shows courtesy toward others | Listens actively and creatively |
| Is aware of and attempts to use and interpret non-verbal communication | Can follow detailed verbal instructions and directions |
| Communicates through speech | Is confident when speaking |
Uses listening and speaking to:
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Shows respect for the language and ideas of others |
Skills: Writing
| Looks at writing with interest and listens to stories | Can write legibly |
| Recounts own experience | Is interested in effects created by different arrangements of words |
| Plays with words | Chooses to write when presented with a range of options for self-expression |
| Communicates through art | Wants to share writing with others |
| Pretends to writes something - scribbling in word patterns | Uses conventions of language to their ability |
| Beginning to write about experience as well as talk about them | Experiments with forms |
| Dictate for scribing | Varies the purpose of writing |
| "Reading" own writing and own stories | Describes detail with sensory language |
| Observing that speech can be translated into print | Organises and unifies ideas in logical sequence Consults a dictionary frequently |
| Tracing over and or copying writing | Proof reads own writing |
| Writing own name | Is prepared to polish written words for publication |
| Writing words, phrases and complete ideas in sentences | Writes appropriately for specific audience |
| Enjoys writing |
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
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