How to Home School Your Child - Building the Lesson Plan

Lesson plans should be created based around a single concept. You should typically plan at least one week for each concept, depending on how difficult the material appears. As mentioned, you can always go ahead with additional lessons per day if the child grasps the material quickly. However, most children need several days to understand a concept and apply it well enough to perform on worksheets or tests.

Lessons should not always revolve around textbooks. The first day or two of a lesson should include reviewing the textbook material. After that, you should focus on some practice worksheets and activities. Provide many different learning styles with each lesson plan so that you can be certain your child will understand the material.

Children often become bored with school when they are constantly faced with books and worksheets. This is typically the main reason children come to hate public school. As a homeschooler, you are not restricted in the tools you can use in your teaching. Intersperse your lesson plans with fun activities that retain the child’s interest while teaching them the material they have to learn.

Lesson plans should also be tailored to the child. This can be more difficult when you are just starting out and you aren’t familiar with your child’s learning style. However, over time it will become easier to know how your child learns best. Once you have this information, you can tailor lesson plans to include activities that will spark their minds and let them run with the topic.

This is an excerpt from the book How to Home School Your Child: Developing a Well Trained Mind: Proven Strategies for Unlocking Your Child’s Genius with Homeschooling by Karina Bartlett

 

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