Books about Homeschooling
You can find many of these homeschooling books in the public libraries and local bookstores.
General Information
The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide When It's Right for Your Family by Lisa Rivero (2008)
This book addresses the major questions parents have as they consider the homeschooling option: socialization, curriculum, special needs, resources, and much more.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling by Rachel Gathercole (2007)
This book answers the “socialization” question with opinions, facts, and personal accounts. Gathercole persuasively argues that homeschooling is not isolating but rather a sophisticated approach to socializing and educating children.
100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing The Right Curriculum And Approach For Your Child's Learning Style by Cathy Duffy (2005)
The key to successful home education is determining your educational philosophy and marrying it to your child's learning style, so that you can make an informed decision in choosing the right educational curriculum for the child. Christian perspective.
Homeschooling: Take A Deep Breath - You Can Do This! by Terrie Lynn Bittner (2004)
If you want to homeschool your children but don't think you have the ability, Bittner's book will take you by the hand and show you how.
The Homeschooling Book of Answers by Linda Dobson (updated 2002)
Drawing from the collective wisdom and experience of homeschoolers, this book provides answers from several perspectives for the 101 most commonly raised concerns about homeschooling.
A Parent’s Guide to Home Schooling by Tamra Orr (2002)
An encouraging guidebook offering plenty of experienced support and helpful resources. Includes essays from homeschooling parents providing real-life descriptions of a variety of homeschooling approaches.
Fundamentals of Homeschooling: Notes on Successful Family Living by Ann Lahrson-Fisher (2002)
This book is like the Joy of Cooking for homeschoolers. It provides both reassurance (and an understanding of why homeschooling works so well) as well as new ideas when your well is running dry.
First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start by Linda Dobson (2001)
With the constant concern about the safety and quality of our nation's schools, many of today's families are opting to teach their children at home. This book will help you get started.
Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond by LauraMaery Gold and Joan M. Zielinski (2000)
The majority of homeschoolers are single-income families who consequently look for simple, inexpensive resources to use in teaching their children.
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School by Rebecca Rupp (2000)
A structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school.
The Homeschooling Handbook: From Preschool to High School, a Parent's Guide by Mary Griffith (1999)
This non-ideological book examines homeschooling's pros and cons, discusses how to handle regulations, and shows how to design and implement a productive learning atmosphere at home for students of all ages. The author incorporates useful teaching ideas from schools such as Montessori and Waldorf.
Homeschooling in Oregon by Ann Lahrson-Fisher (1998)
This book will help you through the many options that are available to homeschoolers. The information about homeschool laws is out of date, but current information is available on the OHEN website.
The Complete Home Learning Source Book: The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology by Rebecca Rupp (1998)
This ambitious reference guide lives up to its name. Practically three inches thick--and we're not talking large print here--it's packed with titles, ordering information, and Web site addresses.
Good Stuff: Learning Tools For All Ages by Rebecca Rupp (1997)
This popular resource guide covers every subject area schools do, and many more they don't. It offers something more than "testbooks" for learning.
Charlotte Mason
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola (1998)
A thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason, this book reveals the practical day by day method of how to teach "the Charlotte Mason way".
Classic Education
The Latin-Centered Curriculum by Andrew Campbell (2006)
In addition to a useful scope and sequence for how a Latin-centered classical education can be accomplished in a home or private school, Campbell provides a short history of the modern classical movement.
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver Van DeMille (2006)
This book presents a new educational vision based on preparing the future leaders our nation needs.
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer (1999)
Thought-provoking description of a thorough course of classical education based on the Western trivium. An inspiration to many homeschoolers with high aspirations for their children. Loaded with detailed descriptions of resources.
Gifted Education
Creative Home Schooling for Gifted Children: A Resource Guide by Lisa Rivero (2002)
Rivero addresses areas not usually covered in homeschooling books such as asynchronous development (uneven development), perfectionism, and learning for self-actualization.
Older Children
And What About College? How Homeschooling Leads to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities;
Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook: Preparing Your 12- to 18-Year-Old for a Smooth Transition;
Homeschooling The Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- To 18-Year Old by Cafi Cohen (2000)
These three books have a thorough discussion of the college application process and how homeschoolers can best prepare. Provides samples of “homegrown” transcripts, resumes and application cover letters.
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn (1998)
This book is a guide for bright, frustrated high schoolers to take charge of their own education through homeschooling (and learning by doing).
Success Stories
Viral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life by Mary Griffith (2007)
This book is a personal reflection on how Griffith came to homeschooling, how it affected her and her view of the world, and how those changes in her - and us - may spark changes around us.
The Call to Brilliance: A True Story to Inspire Parents and Educators by Resa Steindel Brown (2007)
With insightful commentary, Brown recalls her own trials as a student and teacher in our industrial, one-size-fits-all educational system. Then she encounters the needs of her young sons. Unable to read until ages nine and ten, they entered college at eleven and twelve, became systems administrators, chief technology officers, trained with the Berlin Opera and Hamburg Ballet, created digital images used in the film "Lord of the Rings," presented software solutions to TRW, Pac Bell, Industrial Light & Magic, NSA, Sony, and more, all before the ages of eighteen.
Homeschooling Odyssey by Matthew James (updated 2006)
Hour-a-day homeschooling has sent their six children to Stanford and beyond. While academic achievements are gratifying, they represent a drop in the bucket of benefits in store for families who choose to homeschool.
After Homeschool: Fifteen Homeschoolers Out in the Real World by Tamra Orr (2003)
This personal look at the lives of 15 homeschoolers between the ages of 17 and 22 examines life after homeschool and offers insights into the effects of homeschooling as these students reenter the mainstream. Featured are interviews with young adults of varying backgrounds, along with their parents, who explain why they chose the homeschooling path, what homeschooling philosophy they followed, and what the future may hold.
I Learn Better By Teaching Myself and Still Teaching Ourselves by Agnes Leistico (1997)
This new edition combines two books under one cover. A homeschooling mother of three describes how she learned to trust her children and herself to learn in new ways. Answers the question, "How much structure should there be in a homeschool?"
Homeschooling For Excellence by David & Micki Colfax (1988)
A step-by-step manual for people who want to educate their children at home. The Colfaxes are two former educators who taught their three sons at home and saw them accepted at Harvard.
Unschooling
Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love by David Albert (2005)
Gently and passionately, Albert insists that the curriculum of love is not about externals - it is about what is essential in each individual human being and in every child It demands that we assist our children in seeking to embrace a world that is their own.
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
by John Holt & Pat Farenga (2003)
The classic work on teaching children at home, updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and a new generation of homeschooling parents.
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee (2002)
This book helps you let go of your expectations and allow your children to become the people they are meant to be.
The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith (1998)
Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States.
Learning All The Time by John Holt (1990)
This delightful book shows how children learn to read, write, and count in their everyday life at home and how adults can respect and encourage this wonderful process.
Younger Children
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12 by Linda Dobson (2002)
As a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs.
Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child by Linda Dobson (1999)
More families are adopting the homeschooling lifestyle well before legal school age by not sending their toddlers to organized preschools.
Trust the Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning by Anna Kealoha (1995)
This is an excellent book for fun learning activities for younger homeschoolers (about preschool to age 9).
How Children Learn by John Holt (1991)
This pioneering work explains in detail how children are born with curiosity and the ability to learn. |
