Homeschooling Help

Supplementing School

Melissa Moore

May 28, 2020
1:12 pm

For parents who want to take charge of their child’s education, we recommend Rethinking School, by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer.

From communicating with teachers to helping gifted or struggling students, Rethinking School provides smart, up-to-date, inspiring, and compassionate guidance.

Looking to help your child in a particular subject area?

Elementary Math

Our resident math expert, Kate Snow, has lots of articles & videos to help you teach your children with confidence:

Teaching Math to a Wiggly Preschooler
Teaching Addition & Subtraction With Play Money
How to Drill the Math Facts
Our Youtube Channel hosts how-to seminars for each of the Facts That Stick books (and more!), led by Kate Snow.

Reading

For Young Readers: Jessie Wise, a nationally-recognized homeschool expert and author of The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, provides this list of good books for beginning readers to try.
For Older Readers: A list of Great Books, arranged chronologically, with discussion questions and reading tips. Working through this list not only introduces your child to wonderful literature; it also walks her through world history.

History & Biography

Master storyteller Jim Weiss offers a wide array of audiobooks for young listeners, telling the stories of women & men whose courage, perseverance, and curiosity changed the course of history. These make a wonderful supplement to a student’s existing history program.

Wanting to Connect With Other Parents for Advice & Answers?

Check out our huge online forums, where thousands of parents in a wide variety of situations (homeschool, traditional brick-and-mortar school, hybrid schooling) share experience, resources, tips, and commiseration–and the occasional brownie recipe.

Looking for Online Classes?

The Well-Trained Mind Academy offers a wide variety of high school, middle school, and upper elementary classes taught by instructors with years of experience in distance learning. Learn more about the Academy here.

Recommended Products

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melissa Moore

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Join over 100,000 homeschooling families

For the latest offers, educational insights, products and more.

By joining you agree to our privacy policy.

Discussion

More Resources

Your Children Are in Virtual School. How Do You Thrive? In the first part of this series, we offered a helping

Your Children Are in Virtual School. How Do You Thrive? Try Thinking Like a Home Schooler! You never intended to home school. You have a

If you've decided to homeschool, but aren't sure what your first steps should be, we're here to help.

Originally written in 2020, this post from Susan Wise Bauer continues to offer practical advice for easing you and your family into homeschooling. Read on

Here are the top five reasons to read poetry to, and with, your children. 1. Poems can communicate in ways that prose cannot. Edgar Allan

Preschoolers are a ton of fun. They’re energetic, curious, and immensely proud of their new skills and abilities. But their short attention spans and high energy

How to Use Home Library Organization to Build Vital Literacy Skills A woman walks into a book store. She’s in the mood for an escape

Teaching logic-stage students history can be a challenge. You want to encourage students to own their history studies, rather than simply following your lead. How

Can you tell what these three word problems have in common? I had 8 cookies, and then I ate 5. How many cookies did

Hands-on math materials help children understand math concepts better and become more fluent at solving problems. Plus, they make math time a lot more engaging

Help for New Homeschoolers