Getting Started with Homeschooling

Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children

© Beverley Paine

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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:
  • express ideas, feelings, observations, and opinions
  • to amuse and entertain
  • to explore and maintain relationships
  • request and give information
  • to direct or command
  • to describe, to make comparisons
  • to clarify
  • to evaluate
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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