SR 886: Teaching Language Arts – Andrew Pudewa, Part 1 (Homeschooling Every Subject)

“It is much easier for a homeschool mom to teach a child to read than for any teacher, no matter how much training they have to teach a whole room full of little kids to read at the same time.” ~ Andrew Pudewa

Watch this full interview on our YouTube Channel.

Andrew Pudewa joins Yvette Hampton to dive into the essentials of teaching Language Arts in our Homeschooling Every Subject Series. Learn effective strategies for teaching reading, understanding developmental readiness, and the importance of phonics. Perfect for every homeschool parent looking to confidently teach their child to read!

✅ Key Topics Covered:

1. Teaching Reading at Home
2. Understanding Developmental Readiness
3. Benefits of Phonics-Based Methods
4. The Role of Audiobooks in Learning
5. Reading Comprehension Tips

Come back Wednesday and Thursday for the rest of this conversation.

Has the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast been a blessing to you? Support from our listeners allows us provide resources, support, and encouragement to homeschooling families around the world. Would you please consider a year-end gift to support the Schoolhouse Rocked ministry?

logo-button-medium.png

Recommended Resources

Institute for Excellence in Writing

Free Lessons from IEW

Phonetic Zoo

IEW Spelling

Fix-It Grammar

Introduction to Public Speaking

First Form Latin from Memoria Press

Latin for Children from Classical Academic Press

Speech and Debate – NCFCA

 

Podcast Recommendations:

Homeschooling Every Subject Series

The Arts of Language Podcast, with Andrew Pudewa

More from Andrew Pudewa on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast

Alex Newman – Should I Teach Phonics or Sight Words?

Thinking Dad Podcast

📚📖 Ready to start homeschooling? 🏠📓

🍿 Stream Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution 🍿 for FREE today and get the 📖 Homeschool Survival Kit 📖 delivered to your inbox immediately!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Are you in need of a fresh vision for your homeschool? Join us for 4 days of Homeschool Encouragement at the Homegrown Generation Family Expo. Use the coupon code PODCAST to save 25% on registration today! 

Discussion Questions:

  1. What are some key reasons Andrew Pudewa believes homeschooling parents are better equipped to teach their children to read compared to traditional classroom teachers?

  2. Andrew Pudewa mentions that some children show readiness to read at different ages. How can parents identify if their child is developmentally ready to start learning how to read?

  3. Andrew Pudewa talks about the relationship between auditory input and reading comprehension. How can parents incorporate more auditory-based learning into their homeschooling routine?

  4. Why does Andrew Pudewa advocate for a phonics-based approach to teaching reading, and what are some common pitfalls of other reading methods according to him?

  5. Discuss the concept of “reading with your ears” as mentioned by Andrew Pudewa. How do audiobooks fit into this concept, and what are their advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional reading?

  6. What are some strategies parents can use to ensure their children comprehend what they are reading, besides using worksheets and standardized reading comprehension tests?

  7. How does Andrew Pudewa suggest parents deal with children who want to reread the same book repeatedly? What are the benefits and potential drawbacks of this habit?

  8. How can movement and physical activity contribute to a child’s ability to listen and comprehend stories being read to them? Discuss specific examples given in the episode.

  9. According to Andrew Pudewa, how does spending time with parents and away from screens contribute to a child’s language development? What are some practical ways parents can facilitate this?

  10. Reflect on the idea that children’s understanding of language may be higher than their ability to articulate it. How should this affect the way parents assess their child’s comprehension and learning progress?

Schoolhouse Rocked Merch

Be the most popular mom in your co-op. Get your Schoolhouse Rocked merch here.

SPONSORS:

CTCMath – CTCMath specializes in providing online video tutorials that take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Creative graphics and animation, synchronized with the friendly voice of internationally acclaimed teacher, Pat Murray, make learning math easy and effective. Start your free trial today.

BJU Press Homeschool provides complete curriculum for preschool through 12th grade with both traditional textbooks and video courses available. Education from a Christian worldview reshapes how children see the world. BJU Press materials teach Christ’s power and lordship through the Big Story of creation.

Apologia – Apologia is a Christ-centered, award-winning homeschool curriculum provider. Our mission is to help homeschooling students and families learn, live, and defend the Christian faith through our print and digital curriculum and online classes.

Podcast_Logo_-_Podbeanadssu.png

The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast is a member of the Biblical Family Network. Our mission is to support and encourage the family by providing the very best podcasts on family, discipleship, marriage, parenting, worldview, culture, and education, all from a Biblical perspective. Visit the website for more great shows, like the Thinking Dad, Culture Proof, Homeschool Insights, and Made2Homeschool.

 

Connect with us:

@schoolhouse_rocked on Instagram

Schoolhouse Rocked on Facebook

Schoolhouse Rocked on YouTube

@SRHomeschool on Twitter

Schoolhouse Rocked Website (Blog, Newsletter, Support, Store, Movie, and More!)

1
00:00:00,280 –> 00:00:04,086
One of the worst things that we do in this country is we

2
00:00:04,118 –> 00:00:07,942
try to force young children to read,

3
00:00:08,126 –> 00:00:11,270
many of whom are not developmentally ready for that.

4
00:00:11,430 –> 00:00:14,690
Consequently, they start to hate it,

5
00:00:15,350 –> 00:00:18,846
and then they can continue hating it even

6
00:00:18,958 –> 00:00:22,062
after the point where they could learn it more easily. But they’ve been hating it

7
00:00:22,086 –> 00:00:25,290
for a year or two, so now they just never want to.

8
00:00:25,960 –> 00:00:29,512
Hey, everyone, this is Yvette Hampton. Welcome back to the Schoolhouse Rocked

9
00:00:29,536 –> 00:00:33,328
podcast. I am back this week with Andrew Pudewa, and we are

10
00:00:33,344 –> 00:00:36,984
here talking about Language Arts. This is part of our series that we are in

11
00:00:36,992 –> 00:00:40,544
the middle of on teaching every subject. And so, of

12
00:00:40,592 –> 00:00:44,312
course, Language Arts is one of the most important subjects. I

13
00:00:44,336 –> 00:00:47,640
would say they’re all important, but, I mean, we have to know how to speak

14
00:00:47,680 –> 00:00:51,222
well and read and write well. And so

15
00:00:51,376 –> 00:00:55,034
in order to learn the other subjects, we have to know

16
00:00:55,082 –> 00:00:58,426
these things first. And so I would say this is definitely in the

17
00:00:58,458 –> 00:01:02,290
top couple of subjects that we need to be able to teach our kids.

18
00:01:02,330 –> 00:01:05,722
And so Andrew is here to help us through this. But before we get into

19
00:01:05,746 –> 00:01:09,562
our conversation, I want to say thank you to our sponsor, BJU Press Homeschool. If

20
00:01:09,586 –> 00:01:13,410
you’re looking for great Christian homeschool curriculum that will point

21
00:01:13,450 –> 00:01:16,774
your kids to Jesus and everything that they do, check them out

22
00:01:16,775 –> 00:01:20,282
bjupresshomeschool.com, and they’ve got every subject,

23
00:01:20,386 –> 00:01:24,196
every grade, every age, anything that you need for your homeschooling, they’ve got

24
00:01:24,228 –> 00:01:25,932
something for you. Check them out at

25
00:01:25,956 –> 00:01:29,596
bjupresshomeschool.com. Well, Andrew,

26
00:01:29,668 –> 00:01:33,236
welcome back. You were with us last week, and as I mentioned, we’re

27
00:01:33,268 –> 00:01:36,260
recording these both in the same day. So we are wearing the same

28
00:01:36,420 –> 00:01:39,764
wardrobe. We’ll call it wardrobe because that makes it just sound more

29
00:01:39,852 –> 00:01:43,588
classy. Classy and official showbiz, right? Exactly. So we’ve. We’ve

30
00:01:43,604 –> 00:01:47,452
got our wardrobe people, which basically meant me going into my closet and finding this

31
00:01:47,476 –> 00:01:51,116
shirt. And you probably do my favorite blue shirt. I know. I like that blue

32
00:01:51,148 –> 00:01:53,924
shirt. If you can’t see in the pic in the, in the video, for those

33
00:01:53,972 –> 00:01:57,396
watching, Andrew has very blue eyes, and so his blue shirt makes his eyes look

34
00:01:57,428 –> 00:02:00,764
really blue. And even Garritt said, that sure looks good on you.

35
00:02:00,932 –> 00:02:04,628
So it’s a great shirt. What’s funny is I almost wore my blue shirt today.

36
00:02:04,764 –> 00:02:06,724
That would have been funny. I would have had to change it. Cause then it

37
00:02:06,732 –> 00:02:10,580
would have looked a little bit too coordinated. Intentional.

38
00:02:10,620 –> 00:02:13,196
Yeah, but it’s like the exact same color. Blue. Black and blue always go well

39
00:02:13,228 –> 00:02:16,228
together. It does, yes. As long as it’s not a black and blue bruise like,

40
00:02:16,284 –> 00:02:19,560
you know, on your eye or something. Anyhow,

41
00:02:20,340 –> 00:02:24,176
we are here to talk about language arts, and I, I love this

42
00:02:24,208 –> 00:02:27,272
topic. I love to write, which is kind of funny because I don’t write a

43
00:02:27,296 –> 00:02:30,380
lot, but I love writing. I have always enjoyed writing.

44
00:02:31,080 –> 00:02:34,340
I’m one of those people who’s just naturally a very good speller.

45
00:02:35,360 –> 00:02:38,728
I have just enjoyed language arts. That’s been one of my subjects since I was

46
00:02:38,744 –> 00:02:42,392
a little girl that I’ve always enjoyed and found to be fairly easy

47
00:02:42,576 –> 00:02:46,408
to learn. Science, not so much. I struggle with science, I

48
00:02:46,424 –> 00:02:49,768
struggle with math, but language arts has been a fun one. But I will say,

49
00:02:49,784 –> 00:02:52,994
and we will talk about this maybe later this week, sentence

50
00:02:53,042 –> 00:02:56,802
diagrams, parsing out sentences. Oh, no, that’s not fun for me.

51
00:02:56,826 –> 00:03:00,154
So we’ll talk about maybe the necessity of that and whether or not it is

52
00:03:00,202 –> 00:03:03,922
necessary. But let’s kind of walk through all

53
00:03:03,946 –> 00:03:07,706
the different aspects of language arts,

54
00:03:07,738 –> 00:03:11,290
because when we think about language arts, it’s, it,

55
00:03:11,370 –> 00:03:14,746
it’s the first question that I think every new

56
00:03:14,778 –> 00:03:18,306
homeschool mom asks. How am I going to teach my child to

57
00:03:18,338 –> 00:03:22,158
read? That’s the scary question. You know, for those who

58
00:03:22,174 –> 00:03:25,878
are not a kindergarten teacher, you know, they’re not

59
00:03:25,934 –> 00:03:29,182
teacher trained. It’s the scariest thing. How am I going to teach my kid to

60
00:03:29,206 –> 00:03:32,806
read? So let’s talk first. Let’s kind of jump off into the topic

61
00:03:32,838 –> 00:03:36,406
of reading and the importance of reading.

62
00:03:36,478 –> 00:03:39,798
We’re going to talk about reading comprehension, how to teach reading.

63
00:03:39,934 –> 00:03:43,566
Sure. Well, one thing I would say in response to your comment

64
00:03:43,638 –> 00:03:47,158
there is it is much easier for a

65
00:03:47,174 –> 00:03:50,978
homeschool mom to teach a child to read than for any teacher,

66
00:03:51,094 –> 00:03:54,810
no matter how much training they have to teach a whole room full of

67
00:03:54,850 –> 00:03:58,150
little kids to read at the same time. So

68
00:03:58,570 –> 00:04:02,290
don’t in any way imagine that you are

69
00:04:02,330 –> 00:04:05,670
somehow not qualified to do this.

70
00:04:06,090 –> 00:04:09,786
Most of the teachers who have been through a

71
00:04:09,818 –> 00:04:12,630
teacher training program, degree, whatever,

72
00:04:13,330 –> 00:04:16,642
they may have some theoretical training about

73
00:04:16,746 –> 00:04:20,426
reading, but they get into a classroom and they have this

74
00:04:20,498 –> 00:04:24,230
huge spectrum of aptitude and they

75
00:04:24,270 –> 00:04:28,090
may or may not even have good materials or methodology to do it. So

76
00:04:28,710 –> 00:04:32,230
you are much, much better off trying to teach your

77
00:04:32,270 –> 00:04:36,022
child to read, not really knowing how you’re going to do

78
00:04:36,046 –> 00:04:39,630
it than putting them in a school where some other

79
00:04:39,670 –> 00:04:42,862
teacher is going to have to try and do that en

80
00:04:42,886 –> 00:04:46,670
masse. So that’s the first thing I would point out. The

81
00:04:46,710 –> 00:04:50,446
second thing that I think is so very important is for

82
00:04:50,478 –> 00:04:53,476
us to understand that reading really is a brain

83
00:04:53,598 –> 00:04:57,328
function more than an academic

84
00:04:57,384 –> 00:05:00,816
subject that can be learned, taught and

85
00:05:00,848 –> 00:05:04,552
learned on demand. So you may have a

86
00:05:04,576 –> 00:05:08,216
child, let’s just randomly say just six years old, right?

87
00:05:08,288 –> 00:05:11,800
So right in the middle there, and you will

88
00:05:11,840 –> 00:05:15,060
discover that some six year olds

89
00:05:15,560 –> 00:05:19,160
are very interested in reading. They start asking you

90
00:05:19,200 –> 00:05:22,520
questions, they start trying to figure out what are the words in their

91
00:05:22,560 –> 00:05:25,340
environment, and they’re showing a readiness.

92
00:05:26,600 –> 00:05:30,344
Other children, maybe the exact same age, couldn’t care

93
00:05:30,392 –> 00:05:34,184
less, aren’t trying to figure out anything, have no interest

94
00:05:34,272 –> 00:05:38,040
in looking at words. Why? Well, they’re

95
00:05:38,080 –> 00:05:41,464
just not developmentally ready. And just like all

96
00:05:41,512 –> 00:05:44,992
children grow physically at different

97
00:05:45,056 –> 00:05:48,500
speeds in different ways and reach different sizes,

98
00:05:49,210 –> 00:05:52,882
reading is the same way they are ready at

99
00:05:52,946 –> 00:05:56,762
different times. And one of the worst things that we

100
00:05:56,786 –> 00:06:00,122
do in this country is we try to force

101
00:06:00,306 –> 00:06:03,946
young children to read, many of whom are

102
00:06:03,978 –> 00:06:07,550
not developmentally ready for that. Consequently,

103
00:06:07,890 –> 00:06:11,538
they start to hate it, and then they can

104
00:06:11,594 –> 00:06:15,378
continue hating it even after the point where they could learn it

105
00:06:15,394 –> 00:06:18,728
more easily. But they’ve been hating it for a year or two, so now they

106
00:06:18,744 –> 00:06:22,380
just never want to. So, you know, there’s that

107
00:06:23,120 –> 00:06:26,560
oddity. Sure. One of the reasons

108
00:06:26,680 –> 00:06:30,384
this happens is because overall,

109
00:06:30,512 –> 00:06:33,792
in schools over the last hundred or more

110
00:06:33,856 –> 00:06:37,320
years, reading instruction has gotten worse and

111
00:06:37,360 –> 00:06:40,960
worse and worse. And so there’s been little

112
00:06:41,000 –> 00:06:44,742
waves and pockets of people kind of returning to the

113
00:06:44,766 –> 00:06:48,294
better way to teach with a good, solid phonics based

114
00:06:48,342 –> 00:06:51,734
approach. But we’ve seen the luxe method, we’ve seen

115
00:06:51,902 –> 00:06:55,358
the whole language stuff, we’ve seen the blended stuff.

116
00:06:55,494 –> 00:06:59,190
And so a lot of children are not

117
00:06:59,270 –> 00:07:02,718
learning well. And so what happens then is say, oh, no,

118
00:07:02,814 –> 00:07:06,622
our second graders can’t read. We better push it harder in first grade. Oh, no,

119
00:07:06,646 –> 00:07:09,886
they’re not learning in first grade. We better push it harder in kindergarten. Oh, no,

120
00:07:09,918 –> 00:07:13,742
they’re not learning. We better create a pre k reading curriculum, which

121
00:07:13,766 –> 00:07:17,608
could be very damaging to many, many children. So

122
00:07:17,744 –> 00:07:21,592
I am always suggesting it’s actually better

123
00:07:21,656 –> 00:07:25,416
to wait a little bit longer than

124
00:07:25,448 –> 00:07:29,192
to push it too early. And some countries that get far

125
00:07:29,256 –> 00:07:32,488
better educational outcomes than we do in the United States,

126
00:07:32,544 –> 00:07:36,392
Scandinavia, would come to mind. They don’t really push reading or writing at all till

127
00:07:36,416 –> 00:07:39,860
the kids are around eight years old, which would correspond with

128
00:07:40,530 –> 00:07:44,218
what other kind of educational luminaries? Charlotte Mason,

129
00:07:44,394 –> 00:07:48,066
Marie Montessori, Blumenfeld, they all had

130
00:07:48,098 –> 00:07:51,818
this understanding that if you push it too

131
00:07:51,914 –> 00:07:55,418
early, the negative consequences far

132
00:07:55,474 –> 00:07:59,106
outweigh any potential gain. But again, you look at your

133
00:07:59,138 –> 00:08:02,914
child, if they’re interested, by all means. But

134
00:08:02,962 –> 00:08:06,590
if they’re just completely unengaged and tuning out.

135
00:08:07,450 –> 00:08:10,906
Why bother? The other thing I would notice, and you just have two

136
00:08:10,938 –> 00:08:14,538
girls, but very often if you have a

137
00:08:14,554 –> 00:08:18,282
boy and a girl, you will notice that the girl will take to

138
00:08:18,306 –> 00:08:22,034
it at a little bit earlier age. The boys tend to be

139
00:08:22,162 –> 00:08:25,230
when it comes to reading neurology,

140
00:08:26,650 –> 00:08:30,370
a little later, sometimes a year or two later.

141
00:08:30,490 –> 00:08:33,786
And that’s not a good or bad thing. That’s just the way they are.

142
00:08:33,978 –> 00:08:37,690
So that would be my first bit of advice, is don’t stress

143
00:08:37,770 –> 00:08:41,562
and don’t push it. Right. So what are the signs that a

144
00:08:41,586 –> 00:08:45,346
parent should be looking for when it comes to whether or not their

145
00:08:45,378 –> 00:08:48,402
child is ready to learn how to start reading? Well, they’ll let you know you’re

146
00:08:48,426 –> 00:08:52,042
reading a book. They’ll try to figure out words on the page. They’ll, they’ll

147
00:08:52,146 –> 00:08:55,762
look around in the house and see the things, and they’ll

148
00:08:55,826 –> 00:08:59,186
want to know, and they’ll learn their Alphabet happily.

149
00:08:59,258 –> 00:09:03,042
And, you know, there’s just, if you spend time with the

150
00:09:03,066 –> 00:09:06,902
children, unfortunately, most homeschooling parents are spending

151
00:09:06,966 –> 00:09:10,702
a lot more time with their children than parents who have

152
00:09:10,726 –> 00:09:14,330
to send their kids to another building

153
00:09:14,630 –> 00:09:18,326
almost all day. Half the time of the year, you’ll

154
00:09:18,358 –> 00:09:21,886
know, you’ll see that. And same thing with

155
00:09:21,918 –> 00:09:25,694
writing, they’ll do. But one thing I’d like to

156
00:09:25,782 –> 00:09:29,422
talk about, because this is something a lot of people do not

157
00:09:29,486 –> 00:09:32,180
intuitively pick up, and that is the

158
00:09:32,220 –> 00:09:35,932
relationship between listening

159
00:09:36,116 –> 00:09:39,660
and reading. Right. Okay, can we go there?

160
00:09:39,700 –> 00:09:43,188
Yeah, absolutely. So when you think about it,

161
00:09:43,284 –> 00:09:46,572
right. If you’re a little kid and you’re learning to read, you’ve

162
00:09:46,636 –> 00:09:50,228
hopefully been taught with a phonics based method. So you’re

163
00:09:50,324 –> 00:09:53,804
looking at letters, remembering the sounds that go to those letters,

164
00:09:53,852 –> 00:09:57,660
remembering the sounds that go to a combination of letters, and

165
00:09:57,700 –> 00:10:01,356
you’re trying to then sound out a

166
00:10:01,388 –> 00:10:05,092
word. Well, once you do that, you have

167
00:10:05,116 –> 00:10:08,836
to kind of hear what you heard yourself

168
00:10:08,988 –> 00:10:12,396
say, and then you have to know

169
00:10:12,548 –> 00:10:16,292
if that is a word or not. So for young

170
00:10:16,356 –> 00:10:19,636
children, reading is very much the process of

171
00:10:19,668 –> 00:10:23,284
elimination. They try to figure it out. If they figure

172
00:10:23,332 –> 00:10:26,828
something out and it does sound like a word, they

173
00:10:26,884 –> 00:10:30,602
know they can read it, they can understand it, but

174
00:10:30,626 –> 00:10:34,282
if it doesn’t, for one reason or another, they can’t.

175
00:10:34,426 –> 00:10:37,802
So, example. Yeah, I was just going to say, give me an example. Let’s say

176
00:10:37,826 –> 00:10:41,410
you’re a little kid and you’re reading along and you come to this

177
00:10:41,450 –> 00:10:45,066
word, and so you try to use your skills. You say,

178
00:10:45,178 –> 00:10:48,470
sul I ga

179
00:10:49,170 –> 00:10:50,590
sle g.

180
00:10:53,060 –> 00:10:56,860
There is no such thing as a sligaha. Now, how do you know there’s

181
00:10:56,900 –> 00:11:00,596
no such thing as a sligaha? You’ve never heard it, right?

182
00:11:00,708 –> 00:11:04,440
Right. So in your world, it doesn’t exist.

183
00:11:05,380 –> 00:11:08,908
So you say, well, it can’t be a sligaha. It must be something else.

184
00:11:09,044 –> 00:11:12,836
So you stare at it a while longer, and if you’re lucky, you recognize

185
00:11:12,948 –> 00:11:16,600
that e I g h combination and you say, oh,

186
00:11:17,380 –> 00:11:21,170
that’s that a like in eight.

187
00:11:21,950 –> 00:11:25,462
So let’s try again. Slay,

188
00:11:25,606 –> 00:11:29,382
slay, slay. It’s a sleigh, right? And you’re so happy because you

189
00:11:29,406 –> 00:11:32,998
figured it out, right? But that only works if you already

190
00:11:33,094 –> 00:11:36,886
know what a sleigh is right? Now,

191
00:11:36,918 –> 00:11:40,438
how, as a little kid in today’s world, how are you going to know what

192
00:11:40,454 –> 00:11:44,078
a sleigh is? Where would you ever have you’ve heard. It in a book that

193
00:11:44,094 –> 00:11:47,598
your mom’s read to you? A book? A book, maybe a movie, a song,

194
00:11:47,654 –> 00:11:51,444
possibly a movie. I mean, you might possibly see a fake

195
00:11:51,542 –> 00:11:55,216
sleigh with a fake santa and a fake Christmas and a fake mall. But,

196
00:11:55,288 –> 00:11:58,704
you know, I try to stay away from fake. So you have to

197
00:11:58,752 –> 00:12:02,568
have the auditory input of that

198
00:12:02,624 –> 00:12:06,448
word in context with some kind of

199
00:12:06,544 –> 00:12:10,048
definitional information attached to it in

200
00:12:10,104 –> 00:12:13,800
order to read it. So that’s

201
00:12:13,840 –> 00:12:17,104
where a lot of kids are falling

202
00:12:17,152 –> 00:12:20,902
off, is they might be able to decode

203
00:12:20,926 –> 00:12:24,590
a word and sound it out. But if they don’t already know

204
00:12:24,630 –> 00:12:28,046
the word, it doesn’t make sense. They can’t read it, they can’t

205
00:12:28,078 –> 00:12:31,230
comprehend it. So there’s a very direct relationship

206
00:12:31,390 –> 00:12:35,086
between auditory input of language and reading

207
00:12:35,118 –> 00:12:38,670
comprehension. And I think that’s where we’re seeing the

208
00:12:38,830 –> 00:12:42,606
biggest problems in the schools, is kids are

209
00:12:42,638 –> 00:12:46,330
spending most of their time with peers, with busy

210
00:12:46,370 –> 00:12:49,310
parents, or most of their time with screens and media.

211
00:12:50,610 –> 00:12:54,370
They’re not getting a high level of language if they’re not

212
00:12:54,410 –> 00:12:57,910
being read to, if they’re not getting

213
00:12:58,690 –> 00:13:02,378
the more sophisticated language, vocabulary,

214
00:13:02,434 –> 00:13:06,066
sentence structure, syntax, nuance into their mind

215
00:13:06,178 –> 00:13:09,842
through the ear. And that’s why I have been pushing for a

216
00:13:09,866 –> 00:13:13,530
long time the importance of reading aloud to

217
00:13:13,570 –> 00:13:17,050
children because that’s going to create the raw information

218
00:13:17,170 –> 00:13:20,250
from which will come competent

219
00:13:20,330 –> 00:13:23,794
speaking, competent reading, and competent

220
00:13:23,842 –> 00:13:27,354
writing. Yeah. So the input cannot

221
00:13:27,402 –> 00:13:30,962
be neglected. Yes. Yes. So, good. Let’s take a break. We’ll be right

222
00:13:30,986 –> 00:13:31,550
back.

223
00:14:41,400 –> 00:14:45,072
We are back with Andrew. We’re talking about the

224
00:14:45,096 –> 00:14:48,896
importance of teaching our kids to read, of course, but then

225
00:14:48,968 –> 00:14:52,624
them being read to. And I know your answer to this question, but I’m going

226
00:14:52,632 –> 00:14:55,904
to ask it. For our listeners who don’t know your answer to this question, is

227
00:14:55,952 –> 00:14:59,068
listening to an audiobook considered

228
00:14:59,244 –> 00:15:02,772
reading? Yeah, absolutely. I’m a huge fan of

229
00:15:02,796 –> 00:15:06,260
audiobooks. You know, the

230
00:15:06,300 –> 00:15:10,132
advantage of reading aloud to a child is if there’s a

231
00:15:10,156 –> 00:15:13,900
word or an idiom or a name or an allusion that they might

232
00:15:13,940 –> 00:15:17,756
not recognize or know, you can kind

233
00:15:17,788 –> 00:15:21,412
of stop and explain that, define the word,

234
00:15:21,556 –> 00:15:24,996
talk about the connection. That’s the

235
00:15:25,028 –> 00:15:28,812
advantage. The disadvantage is it’s totally

236
00:15:28,836 –> 00:15:32,476
dependent on your time. And most moms I

237
00:15:32,508 –> 00:15:35,876
know are very busy and they don’t

238
00:15:35,948 –> 00:15:39,600
have hours a day to read aloud to their kids.

239
00:15:40,020 –> 00:15:42,640
Audiobooks have the advantage that

240
00:15:43,580 –> 00:15:47,068
your kids can listen to the audiobooks while they’re doing other things,

241
00:15:47,204 –> 00:15:50,880
playing with Legos or drawing pictures or doing chores or whatever.

242
00:15:52,100 –> 00:15:55,520
Audiobooks don’t get tired and fall asleep on it.

243
00:15:56,300 –> 00:16:00,148
I have done that before. The disadvantage

244
00:16:00,244 –> 00:16:04,092
is that the child is not necessarily going to get a

245
00:16:04,116 –> 00:16:07,372
chance to say, stop the thing and ask questions

246
00:16:07,556 –> 00:16:11,276
or learn the definitions. They’re going to have to, which is why they’ll

247
00:16:11,308 –> 00:16:14,804
very often be happy to listen to the same book several times,

248
00:16:14,972 –> 00:16:18,692
because the second time through, they understand a little bit more. The next time through,

249
00:16:18,716 –> 00:16:22,412
they understand a little bit more, builds the picture. So both are

250
00:16:22,436 –> 00:16:26,172
important, both are good, but it’s not cheating. The other thing I

251
00:16:26,196 –> 00:16:29,236
would point out is that children’s

252
00:16:29,388 –> 00:16:32,860
understanding, right, their

253
00:16:32,980 –> 00:16:36,492
auditory comprehension level of language is

254
00:16:36,636 –> 00:16:40,084
way above their decoding level of

255
00:16:40,172 –> 00:16:43,916
written language for at least six years.

256
00:16:44,028 –> 00:16:47,804
So they start reading at, let’s say, six years old,

257
00:16:47,972 –> 00:16:51,628
and they’re forced to read awful stuff like

258
00:16:51,764 –> 00:16:55,436
Max the cat sat. Max sat and sat. The

259
00:16:55,468 –> 00:16:58,740
rat sat and sat. You’re just like, ugh, this is mind

260
00:16:58,820 –> 00:17:02,160
numbingly, insultingly stupid stuff,

261
00:17:02,460 –> 00:17:05,700
but you have to do that to practice your decoding

262
00:17:05,740 –> 00:17:09,148
skills. You want, at the same time,

263
00:17:09,324 –> 00:17:12,780
to be cultivating their imagination, their love of

264
00:17:12,860 –> 00:17:15,844
story, their higher level of linguistic

265
00:17:15,892 –> 00:17:19,670
appreciation through reading aloud in audiobooks. So

266
00:17:19,750 –> 00:17:23,526
just because a child starts reading on their own doesn’t mean

267
00:17:23,558 –> 00:17:27,190
you should stop giving them the auditory input as well.

268
00:17:27,230 –> 00:17:30,902
And that’ll continue up till twelve or 13. Their

269
00:17:30,966 –> 00:17:34,670
auditory comprehension will be higher than

270
00:17:34,710 –> 00:17:38,038
their decoding skills. And I’ll give you a great example,

271
00:17:38,174 –> 00:17:41,210
is if you let a twelve year old child

272
00:17:41,590 –> 00:17:45,302
listen to Tom Sawyer, they can follow it

273
00:17:45,326 –> 00:17:49,038
and understand it and enjoy it tremendously. If you try to make them

274
00:17:49,094 –> 00:17:52,918
read on paper, Tom Sawyer, the dialect and

275
00:17:52,934 –> 00:17:56,090
the oddity of it, they can’t translate that into

276
00:17:56,830 –> 00:18:00,550
the language they would understand more easily, and they might not like it. They might

277
00:18:00,590 –> 00:18:04,262
hate it. So I think most of us have an experience of

278
00:18:04,286 –> 00:18:07,790
maybe having tried to read something that was just a little too

279
00:18:07,910 –> 00:18:11,400
odd and hard. Right. But if we heard it,

280
00:18:11,560 –> 00:18:15,320
it would be a completely different experience. And it’s

281
00:18:15,360 –> 00:18:18,500
essentially one’s reading with your eyes, one’s reading with your ears.

282
00:18:19,120 –> 00:18:22,736
At some point, your visual decoding skill matches your

283
00:18:22,768 –> 00:18:25,500
comprehension skill. Late teens, probably.

284
00:18:26,240 –> 00:18:29,800
But I still, to this day, I

285
00:18:29,880 –> 00:18:33,528
listen probably ten to one audiobooks

286
00:18:33,584 –> 00:18:37,428
over paper books that I read. Right. And I will accidentally

287
00:18:37,484 –> 00:18:41,132
say, oh, I’m reading right now and tell somebody, oh, well, to tell the

288
00:18:41,196 –> 00:18:44,812
truth, I’m listening while I’m driving. But it’s the same thing.

289
00:18:44,876 –> 00:18:48,572
Sure. And you’re not just hearing, you’re listening. As we talked about in last week’s

290
00:18:48,596 –> 00:18:51,876
episode, talking about music. There’s a difference between just hearing and

291
00:18:51,908 –> 00:18:55,692
listening. And sometimes I find myself, because I also listen to audiobooks

292
00:18:55,756 –> 00:18:59,260
sometimes. But I’m a visual learner and so I do much better.

293
00:18:59,380 –> 00:19:02,572
I like actual paper books. Garritt loves reading on his

294
00:19:02,596 –> 00:19:06,324
Kindle. He sometimes listens to audiobooks. I can listen to some

295
00:19:06,372 –> 00:19:09,684
audiobooks, but not all. It depends on the voice. It’s the weirdest

296
00:19:09,732 –> 00:19:13,468
thing. Some voices, I just can’t hear them. Do

297
00:19:13,484 –> 00:19:16,916
you find yourself? Absolutely. A good reader can make all the

298
00:19:16,948 –> 00:19:20,556
difference? Absolutely. A bad reader can destroy even the best

299
00:19:20,588 –> 00:19:24,080
book. Right? Yes, I find that to be true. But

300
00:19:24,580 –> 00:19:28,396
I like reading actual paper books, though.

301
00:19:28,428 –> 00:19:32,056
My girls, my youngest one, she loves to listen to

302
00:19:32,088 –> 00:19:35,816
books. Whether it’s me reading to her or her listening to audiobooks, she

303
00:19:35,848 –> 00:19:39,632
listens to lots of audiobooks. And for younger teenagers, I

304
00:19:39,656 –> 00:19:43,200
think that if you want them to read a more challenging

305
00:19:43,280 –> 00:19:46,660
book, kind of a classic, like a Dickens novel or something,

306
00:19:47,480 –> 00:19:51,280
to be able to listen and watch

307
00:19:51,320 –> 00:19:54,984
the words go by on the page can be hugely beneficial

308
00:19:55,112 –> 00:19:58,872
because just listening, they get distracted or lost

309
00:19:59,016 –> 00:20:02,676
just reading. Its overwhelming entire. But when you get

310
00:20:02,708 –> 00:20:06,520
that double sensory input, sometimes that can really

311
00:20:07,060 –> 00:20:10,908
bring it up to the higher level of enjoyment, understanding and

312
00:20:10,924 –> 00:20:14,740
enjoyment. Yeah. That’s actually how I read my bible, is I have my

313
00:20:14,860 –> 00:20:18,540
youversion app on my phone and I listen to it in the ESV

314
00:20:18,580 –> 00:20:22,052
version. And then I have my ESV paper bible open in front of me and

315
00:20:22,076 –> 00:20:25,540
I follow along in my paper bible as it’s reading to

316
00:20:25,580 –> 00:20:29,236
me. And I find that I’m able to much better comprehend what I’m reading

317
00:20:29,268 –> 00:20:32,260
because my mind doesn’t wander as much because I’m getting it and through my eyes

318
00:20:32,300 –> 00:20:35,976
and through my ears. Yeah. And, um. And so, yeah, that’s very, very helpful

319
00:20:36,008 –> 00:20:39,768
for me. Um, re reading comprehension. Let’s talk about that just for a minute.

320
00:20:39,784 –> 00:20:43,224
We’re almost out of time for this episode, but reading comprehension, I know, is, is

321
00:20:43,272 –> 00:20:46,400
difficult. You know, as I said, I have a hard time sometimes listening to audio

322
00:20:46,440 –> 00:20:50,128
because my brain just goes all over the place. How can we know

323
00:20:50,184 –> 00:20:53,680
if our kids are actually comprehending the things that they’re

324
00:20:53,800 –> 00:20:57,304
reading or that we’re reading to them? Well, I

325
00:20:57,392 –> 00:21:01,152
don’t recommend, you know, worksheet style, you

326
00:21:01,176 –> 00:21:04,400
know, reading comprehension tests. Right. Because

327
00:21:05,620 –> 00:21:09,316
when people read things, they get different things out of it. If

328
00:21:09,348 –> 00:21:13,076
you read Jane Eyre and I read Jane Eyre and then we

329
00:21:13,108 –> 00:21:16,740
started talking about it, we would discover that I remember and

330
00:21:16,780 –> 00:21:20,484
thought about things different than what you would remember and think

331
00:21:20,532 –> 00:21:24,180
about. So that’s why kind of a standardized reading comprehension

332
00:21:24,260 –> 00:21:27,800
test, I don’t think is very honest. Right.

333
00:21:28,460 –> 00:21:31,800
And the other thing to keep in mind is that

334
00:21:32,420 –> 00:21:35,840
for kids, their understanding level

335
00:21:36,140 –> 00:21:39,956
is above their verbal articulation level,

336
00:21:40,108 –> 00:21:43,324
right. So they won’t necessarily be able to tell

337
00:21:43,372 –> 00:21:47,132
you everything that they did understand. So don’t judge

338
00:21:47,156 –> 00:21:50,756
it that way. But I think the most important thing is to engage in

339
00:21:50,788 –> 00:21:54,628
conversation. And so it’s

340
00:21:54,684 –> 00:21:58,416
best if you are familiar with the book that the

341
00:21:58,508 –> 00:22:02,016
kid is reading, if you have time, you know, read along with

342
00:22:02,048 –> 00:22:05,624
them. If not, then try to figure out

343
00:22:05,672 –> 00:22:09,424
enough that you can ask them some good questions and let them tell

344
00:22:09,472 –> 00:22:13,192
back, what do they remember, what was significant, what was funny,

345
00:22:13,256 –> 00:22:16,020
interesting, what was hard.

346
00:22:16,760 –> 00:22:19,848
And really, if something is worth

347
00:22:19,944 –> 00:22:23,656
reading, it’s going to be a bit challenging, and

348
00:22:23,688 –> 00:22:27,436
it’s going to require more than one reading to get full

349
00:22:27,468 –> 00:22:31,292
value out of it. Definition of a classic we mentioned this in the

350
00:22:31,316 –> 00:22:35,140
music segments, where, you know, a classic is something you can

351
00:22:35,180 –> 00:22:38,076
read or experience again and again and again and again and get more out of

352
00:22:38,108 –> 00:22:41,916
each time. That’s why you’ll see some children. I had one daughter. She

353
00:22:41,948 –> 00:22:45,668
would read the entire lion, witch and wardrobe series, all of the

354
00:22:45,684 –> 00:22:49,284
Narnia books, and then she would go back and read through them all again. And

355
00:22:49,292 –> 00:22:52,884
then she would go back and read through them all. She spent a whole year,

356
00:22:53,012 –> 00:22:56,862
basically all her spare time, just. And I remember my wife

357
00:22:56,886 –> 00:22:59,702
saying, do you think we should make her read something else? I don’t know. She’s

358
00:22:59,726 –> 00:23:03,502
just a little kid. She wants to live in Narnia. What’s wrong with

359
00:23:03,526 –> 00:23:07,238
that? So that would be, the other

360
00:23:07,294 –> 00:23:11,014
thing is don’t be afraid. If

361
00:23:11,062 –> 00:23:14,902
kids want to camp out in one book for what seems like

362
00:23:14,926 –> 00:23:18,210
a long period of time, sometimes

363
00:23:20,110 –> 00:23:23,334
more time in one book would be better than less

364
00:23:23,382 –> 00:23:27,010
time in more books. Right, right. Yeah.

365
00:23:27,350 –> 00:23:31,174
One last question. When it comes to reading, um, and then we’ll. We’ll continue on

366
00:23:31,182 –> 00:23:34,318
with the conversation tomorrow. But, um, in regards to reading, I know that a lot

367
00:23:34,334 –> 00:23:37,702
of moms get very nervous when their kids are not sitting still,

368
00:23:37,846 –> 00:23:41,574
crisscross applesauce on the floor, looking at them, paying

369
00:23:41,622 –> 00:23:45,206
attention, quote unquote, because it seems like they’re distracted if they’re doing

370
00:23:45,278 –> 00:23:49,026
something else. Talk about the importance of kids. Sometimes they need

371
00:23:49,058 –> 00:23:52,482
to be doing something with their hands. They need to be what

372
00:23:52,546 –> 00:23:56,210
seems like distracted in other ways in order to be able to

373
00:23:56,250 –> 00:23:59,946
actually listen and comprehend what’s being read. Think about yourself

374
00:24:00,018 –> 00:24:03,458
in an audiobook. I mean, would you just sit there and do nothing?

375
00:24:03,554 –> 00:24:07,314
Right. You’d be more likely to get distracted and

376
00:24:07,362 –> 00:24:10,630
not hear what you’re listening to. Whereas

377
00:24:11,010 –> 00:24:14,020
I particularly find that driving,

378
00:24:14,560 –> 00:24:16,780
cleaning, and cooking

379
00:24:17,800 –> 00:24:21,072
or exercise are really good

380
00:24:21,216 –> 00:24:25,024
for listening because I’m using

381
00:24:25,112 –> 00:24:28,620
my body and doing things in a nonverbal way

382
00:24:29,560 –> 00:24:32,928
that causes me not to be

383
00:24:32,984 –> 00:24:36,768
distracted so that I actually get better verbal input. Kids are

384
00:24:36,784 –> 00:24:40,536
the same way, so they can play with blocks or legos or

385
00:24:40,648 –> 00:24:44,256
color or, you know, the girls sometimes learn to

386
00:24:44,288 –> 00:24:48,104
crochet or do needlepoint or something. I’ve even had people

387
00:24:48,152 –> 00:24:51,808
come to my lectures, sit in the front row and pull out needlepoint or

388
00:24:51,864 –> 00:24:55,680
crochet. And I know that they know that they will actually

389
00:24:55,760 –> 00:24:59,464
listen better if they are doing something with their eyes and hands.

390
00:24:59,512 –> 00:25:03,344
So that would be my son one time. He

391
00:25:03,352 –> 00:25:06,580
was very dyslexic. We’ve talked about him before, but

392
00:25:07,610 –> 00:25:11,146
he was in a class I was teaching with other children,

393
00:25:11,338 –> 00:25:14,690
and he was just doodling on this piece of paper. Everybody else is

394
00:25:14,730 –> 00:25:18,154
dutifully taking notes, and it’s my son who’s just drawing dumb

395
00:25:18,202 –> 00:25:21,442
pictures. And I stopped at one point,

396
00:25:21,506 –> 00:25:25,190
and I said to him, chris, are you with us?

397
00:25:25,810 –> 00:25:29,506
And without even looking at me, he just said, do you

398
00:25:29,538 –> 00:25:32,830
want me to tell you everything you just said for the last ten minutes?

399
00:25:33,410 –> 00:25:37,110
I said, no, no. Okay, whatever, but keep doodling.

400
00:25:37,270 –> 00:25:40,838
It took me some years to understand that,

401
00:25:41,014 –> 00:25:44,766
but now I do see it very clearly. Yeah. Yeah. It’s

402
00:25:44,798 –> 00:25:48,038
sad, because when you think about a classroom. I used to be a preschool teacher,

403
00:25:48,174 –> 00:25:51,710
and I remember I would sit the kids down on their little carpet

404
00:25:51,750 –> 00:25:55,302
squares, and I would say, okay, sit, you know, with your legs crossed and your

405
00:25:55,326 –> 00:25:58,982
hands in your laps, and be very, very quiet and don’t move. I’m gonna read

406
00:25:59,006 –> 00:26:02,758
this book to you. And they would wiggle around and, you know, and now I

407
00:26:02,774 –> 00:26:06,352
look back. And I think, oh, how Sadeena. They just wanted to move. Like, if

408
00:26:06,376 –> 00:26:09,288
I had given them something to do, but I didn’t know. You want to know

409
00:26:09,304 –> 00:26:12,976
something really interesting? Yeah. What is the primary function of the

410
00:26:13,008 –> 00:26:16,848
ear? To hear. No. To listen. No, no. I don’t know. Tell me.

411
00:26:16,904 –> 00:26:20,688
Balance. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. The primary function of

412
00:26:20,744 –> 00:26:24,440
the whole ear system is balanced. Right. So

413
00:26:24,600 –> 00:26:27,880
for young children, for them to balance their

414
00:26:27,920 –> 00:26:31,664
body and be attentive auditorily can

415
00:26:31,712 –> 00:26:35,266
sometimes be a conflict of energy interest. Interesting. And

416
00:26:35,378 –> 00:26:38,018
I taught a preschool for a few years, and what I would notice is when

417
00:26:38,034 –> 00:26:41,390
I’m reading to the kids, they would want to sink down

418
00:26:41,730 –> 00:26:45,258
and almost get, you know, prone or flat or

419
00:26:45,314 –> 00:26:49,066
spread out. Right. Because then they didn’t have to

420
00:26:49,098 –> 00:26:52,642
hold their body upright. So when you say to a little boy, sit

421
00:26:52,746 –> 00:26:56,386
up, right, and do this, it’s almost

422
00:26:56,458 –> 00:26:59,874
like, well, he’s going to use all of his mental auditory

423
00:26:59,922 –> 00:27:03,562
attentiveness to sit up. Right. He’s not going to have anything left over to

424
00:27:03,666 –> 00:27:07,474
listen or write or do math or whatever. Yeah. So very

425
00:27:07,522 –> 00:27:11,266
often homeschool parents will discover, wow, my kid actually does

426
00:27:11,338 –> 00:27:14,842
better slouched. Down in the couch

427
00:27:14,906 –> 00:27:18,370
or flipped upside. Down or moving,

428
00:27:18,490 –> 00:27:22,186
because when you’re moving, you don’t have to spend quite as much energy

429
00:27:22,258 –> 00:27:25,874
to balance your body as if you’re trying to stay still. Right. The only reason

430
00:27:25,922 –> 00:27:29,498
preschool teachers do that is to keep the kids from bumping into each other and

431
00:27:29,514 –> 00:27:33,258
creating conflicts. And then you never get anything done. Right. Right. Oh, Man. All right,

432
00:27:33,274 –> 00:27:36,906
well, we’ve got lots more to talk about. Andrew, you are

433
00:27:36,978 –> 00:27:40,442
the owner, the founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing. You guys have all

434
00:27:40,466 –> 00:27:43,722
kinds of amazing language arts curriculum. Tell people where they can find out.

435
00:27:43,746 –> 00:27:47,570
IEW.com. It’s an

436
00:27:47,650 –> 00:27:51,266
easy link. And I have a podcast called the Arts of

437
00:27:51,298 –> 00:27:55,074
Language Podcast, and we talk a lot about all of these listening, speaking, reading,

438
00:27:55,122 –> 00:27:57,682
writing things. We have free lessons. If you go to

439
00:27:57,706 –> 00:28:01,348
IEW.com/free-lessons, you can get writing

440
00:28:01,404 –> 00:28:05,080
lessons, grammar lessons, poetry, memorization lessons,

441
00:28:06,260 –> 00:28:09,156
other things. I don’t even know all the things we have. And you have several

442
00:28:09,188 –> 00:28:12,372
of your lectures on your website as well that people can go back and listen

443
00:28:12,396 –> 00:28:16,244
to. I remember listening to one, we’ll talk about spelling, but listening to one

444
00:28:16,292 –> 00:28:19,940
several years ago on spelling and you talking about stories about

445
00:28:19,980 –> 00:28:23,356
teaching your kids how to spell. And so we’ve used Phonetic

446
00:28:23,388 –> 00:28:27,116
Zoo for our girls. Go straight to YouTube and just search my name.

447
00:28:27,188 –> 00:28:30,108
Yeah, yeah. So lots and lots of great information on there so we’ll put that

448
00:28:30,124 –> 00:28:33,132
link in the show notes. Um, thank you for being with us today. We will

449
00:28:33,156 –> 00:28:36,692
be back on Wednesday to continue talking about language arts and how to teach it

450
00:28:36,716 –> 00:28:39,724
in your homeschool. Thank you guys for being with us. Stay tuned to the very

451
00:28:39,772 –> 00:28:43,212
end to hear what’s coming up next on the podcast. And,

452
00:28:43,396 –> 00:28:46,932
um, if you could share this video with your friends or podcast,

453
00:28:46,996 –> 00:28:50,492
however you’re taking this in, whether it’s by visual, video, or

454
00:28:50,516 –> 00:28:54,052
auditory podcast, share it with your friends and it will bring the

455
00:28:54,076 –> 00:28:57,532
encouragement that they need for their homeschooling journey. Have a great rest of your day,

456
00:28:57,556 –> 00:28:59,420
and we will see you back here on Wednesday. Bye.

Related Episodes

Homeschool Insights Podcast Logo

HSI 749: Eryn Lynum – A Master Naturalist Sees God in His Creation

Stream Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution for FREE! There’s a Revolution Transforming Education and it’s NOT Happening in the Classroom! “Schoolhouse Rocked will rock your educational world to the foundations and give you and your kids great hope for the future! The old-school paradigm has proven broken and a new

Listen »

CP 250: Equipping our children to navigate culture with Andrea Crum

Be sure to visit cultureproof.net Please consider supporting the Culture Proof Podcast. We aim to bring engaging content that will challenge and equip Christians to live according to the Straight Edge of Scripture. All gifts are tax deductible. Our Address is: S.E. Ministries PO Box 1269 Saltillo MS, 38866  

Listen »

RR Is it worth fighting for this country? Rick Green

This is an excerpt from my interview with Rick Green for the Thinking Dad podcast. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch or listen to the full interview here.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Rick Green⁠⁠, of ⁠⁠Patriot Academy⁠⁠, joins ⁠⁠Garritt Hampton⁠⁠ to share invaluable insights into the challenges and rewards of raising children with strong moral and civic values, especially in today’s postmodern

Listen »
Homeschool Insights Podcast Logo

HSI 748: Ginger Hubbard – Parenting Mistake #2: Threatening Your Kids!

Stream Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution for FREE! There’s a Revolution Transforming Education and it’s NOT Happening in the Classroom! “Schoolhouse Rocked will rock your educational world to the foundations and give you and your kids great hope for the future! The old-school paradigm has proven broken and a new

Listen »